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Sen rejects age 18 proposal; 34-24 vote falls short of required 2/3 majority; debate centers on states' rights; Sen Russell leads oppisition; Adm defeat seen result of poor planning; roll-call
Min Toriello scores US ban on arms sale to Guatemala; angrily asserts nation is neither US colony nor Communist outpost
Identified by escaped MVD agent Capt Khokhlov as Chief of MVD foreign intelligence div and specialist in pol murder and sabotage
City Council, 22-1, approves $1,639,438,325 budget
procedural talks; Molotov urges discussion of gen principles of an armistice; Smith, Bidault and Tep Phan insist on separate pacts for Cambodia and Laos with complete withdrawal of foreign forces
1954Barbara May Cameron, Native American human rights activist (died 2002)[†]
Barbara May Cameron was a Native American photographer, poet, writer, and human rights activist in the fields of lesbian/gay rights, women's rights, and Native American rights.
1954Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese electronic engineer and co-inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. He specializes in the field of semiconductor technology. He is Professor of Materials and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) since 1999. He received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1954Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1884)[†]
Charles Albert "Chief" Bender was a Native American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball during the 1900s and 1910s. In 1911, Bender tied a record by pitching three complete games in a single World Series. He finished his career with a 212–127 win–loss record for a .625 winning percentage and a career 2.46 earned run average (ERA).
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]