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| 1954 |
| | | US truck driver Elvis Presley makes his first commercial recordings, for Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee | |
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| 1954 |
| | | US choreographer Paul Taylor begins a long and fruitful collaboration with Robert Rauschenberg as his set designer | |
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| 1954 |
| | | In an armistice ending the Indochina War, France acknowledges the independence of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam | |
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| 1954 |
| | | 18-year-old English jockey Lester Piggott wins the first of a record nine Derbys | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon launches the Unification Church, a mission to unify world Christianity | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Seventeen-year-old English footballer Bobby Charlton begins a 19-year career playing for Manchester United | |
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| 1954 |
| | | The country's president, Getúlio Vargas, commits suicide when the army in Brazil demands his resignation | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Federico Fellini directs La Strada ('The Road'), starring his wife, Giulietta Masina, and Antony Quinn | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Relations are normalized between West Germany and the USA, France and Britain, ending the postwar period of occupation | |
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| 1954 |
| | | A radical manifesto and acts of terrorism alert the world to the emergence of the FLN, committed to independence for Algeria | |
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