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Gov Boggs rejects NAAWP plea to suspend Young for malfeasance
AEC asks Atty Gen Brownell opinion on contract legality; concerned over provision to compensate cos for Fed income taxes during contract life; Controller Gen's office holds contract legal
arrives, Pago Pago, after drifting 6,000 miles on raft from Peru in 115 days; illus, map
hurricane Hazel threatens NC, Va coast; map
1954Peter Bakowski, Australian poet and educator[†]
Peter Bakowski is an Australian poet. His poems often use deceptively simple words and images, reminiscent at times of words in a child's picture book, but with some stylistic similarities to the work of writers such as Charles Simic or Vítězslav Nezval,
1954Steve Bracks, Australian politician, 44th Premier of Victoria[†]
Stephen Phillip Bracks is an Australian former politician who served as the 44th Premier of Victoria from 1999 to 2007. He first won the electoral district of Williamstown in 1994 for the Labor Party.
1954Jere Burns, American actor[†]
Jere Eugene Burns II is an American actor who has appeared in theatre productions and on television. He played the roles of ladies' man Kirk Morris on the television series Dear John, DIA psychiatrist Anson Fullerton on the television series Burn Notice, Jack on the sitcom Something So Right, and Dixie Mafia middle-man Wynn Duffy on Justified.
1954Julia Yeomans, English physicist and academic[†]
Julia Mary Yeomans is a British theoretical physicist active in the fields of soft condensed matter and biological physics. She has served as Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford since 2002.
1954Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.[†]
Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest, second-costliest, and most intense hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed at least 469 people in Haiti before it struck the United States near the border between North and South Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane. After causing 95 fatalities in the US, Hazel struck Canada as an extratropical storm, which raised the death toll by 81 people, mostly in Toronto. As a result of the high death toll and the damage caused by Hazel, its name was retired from use for North Atlantic hurricanes.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]