1954 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1954 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - HM Queen Elizabeth II
- Prime Minister - Winston Churchill Conservative Party
[edit] Events
- 10 January - A British Airways comet jet flying from Singapore to London crashes in the Mediterranean, killing 35 people.[1]
- 25 January - First broadcast of Dylan Thomas's radio play Under Milk Wood, two months after its author's death.
- 12 February - United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority founded.[2]
- 3 April - Oxford wins the 100th Boat Race.[3]
- 6 May - Roger Bannister becomes the first person to break the four-minute mile.[4]
- 6 June - J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings first published.[5]
- 4 July - fourteen years of rationing following World War II comes to an end.[6]
- 15 July - Donald McGill, a publisher of saucy seaside postcards, found guilty of breaching the Obscene Publications Act of 1857.[5]
- 3 September - the National Trust for Scotland acquires Fair Isle.[7]
- 13 October - Chris Chataway breaks the world record for the 5000 metres by five seconds.[8]
- 14 October - the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie visits the United Kingdom.[9]
- 30 November - Sir Winston Churchill becomes the first serving British Prime Minister to reach their 80th birthday while still in office.
[edit] Births
- 4 January - Dave Ulliott, professional poker player
- 6 January - Anthony Minghella, film director
- 20 February - Anthony Stewart Head, actor
- 4 March - Willie Thorne, snooker player
- 8 March - David Wilkie, swimmer
- 13 March - Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, politician
- 17 March - Lesley-Anne Down, actress
- 1 May - Archie Norman, politician and businessman
- 10 July - Neil Tennant, musician
- 2 August - Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
- 11 August - Joe Jackson, singer
- 25 August - Elvis Costello, singer
- September 15 - Colin Cunningham, swimmer
- 3 November - Adam Ant, singer
- 8 November - Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born author
- 25 December - Annie Lennox, singer
- 31 December - Alex Salmond, Scottish National Party leader
[edit] Deaths
- 18 January - Sydney Greenstreet, actor (born 1879)
- 20 January - Fred Root, cricketer (born 1890)
- 8 February - Ronald Niel Stuart, Royal Navy Captain (born 1886)
- 6 May - B.C. Forbes, Scottish-born publisher (born 1880)
- 7 June - Alan Turing, mathematician, logician and cryptographer (born 1912)
- 11 July - Henry Valentine Knaggs, physician and author (born 1859)
- 24 September - Edward Pilgrim, victim of bureaucracy (born 1904)
[edit] References
- ^ "Comet jet crashes with 35 on board", BBC News. Retrieved on 2008-01-05.
- ^ "New authority for atomic energy", BBC On This Day
- ^ "Oxford wins 100th Boat Race", BBC On This Day
- ^ "Bannister breaks four-minute mile", BBC On This Day
- ^ a b The Lost Decade Timeline, BBC
- ^ "Housewives celebrate end of rationing", BBC On This Day
- ^ "National Trust buys remote island", BBC On This Day
- ^ "Chataway beats 5,000m world record", BBC On This Day
- ^ "Ethiopian emperor visits UK", BBC On This Day
