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Eden stresses Western need for Ger strength before talks with USSR, Commons
Hammarskjold says he is not going to Peiping to beg anybody for anything; conf with Sir P Dixon (GB) and A S Lall (India); to conf with Eden and Nehru; plans to take 5 or 6 aides; undecided on press coverage
Sen L B Johnson outlines views on Dem course in Cong; urges slow, cautious approach to Pres program; to sanction no major challenge until Eisenhower proposals have been studied and Dem support gathered for alternative; Dems to seek to develop strong domestic issues against Pres and Repubs for '56 campaign
Pub Service asks 2¢ rise in basic fare, corresponding rises in other fares
1954Raivo Järvi, Estonian radio host and politician (died 2012)[†]
Raivo Järvi, commonly known under the pseudonym of Onu Raivo was an Estonian artist, radio personality and politician.
1954Brian Teacher, American tennis player[†]
Brian David Teacher is an American former professional tennis player. He reached career-high rankings of world No. 7 in singles and world No. 5 in doubles, both in 1981. Teacher is best remembered for being a major singles champion, triumphing at the 1980 Australian Open. He won eight career singles titles and 16 doubles titles.
1954René Iché, French soldier and sculptor (born 1897)[†]
René Iché was a 20th-century French sculptor.
1954First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.[†]
Kidney transplant or renal transplant is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). Kidney transplant is typically classified as deceased-donor or living-donor transplantation depending on the source of the donor organ. Living-donor kidney transplants are further characterized as genetically related (living-related) or non-related (living-unrelated) transplants, depending on whether a biological relationship exists between the donor and recipient. The first successful kidney transplant was performed in 1954 by a team including Joseph Murray, the recipient's surgeon, and Hartwell Harrison, surgeon for the donor. Murray was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for this and other work. In 2018, an estimated 95,479 kidney transplants were performed worldwide, 36% of which came from living donors.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]