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H E Salisbury on possibility that Stalin was murdered to avert his planned purge of close aides
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Carlino seen out; Queens leader Kenna not to press for Latham
1954Anne McIntosh, Scottish lawyer and politician[†]
Anne Caroline Ballingall McIntosh, Baroness McIntosh of Pickering is a British politician who has been a life peer since 2015.
1954Henry Samueli, American businessman, co-founded Broadcom Corporation[†]
Henry Samueli is an American businessman and engineer. He is a co-founder of Broadcom Corporation, owner of the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL), and a prominent philanthropist in the Orange County, California, community. He is chairman of Broadcom Inc. He is also a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCLA, and a distinguished adjunct professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at UC Irvine.
1954The Moomin comics, created by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson, is published internationally in the London newspaper The Evening News.[†]
Moomin is a comic strip created by Swedish-speaking Finnish writer Tove Jansson, and followed up by her younger brother Lars Jansson, featuring their Moomin family of characters. The first comic strip, entitled Mumintrollet och jordens undergång was a short-lived project for the children's section of the Finland-Swedish leftist newspaper Ny Tid. It was written between 1947 and 1948, at the request of the editor, a friend of Jansson's, Atos Wirtanen. The series was published with two new strips weekly, and was mainly an adaptation of Comet in Moominland. The series has been reprinted in book form under the name Jorden går under by the newspaper.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]