Famous Births
- Jan. 17: Robert Kennedy Jr - Environmental activist
- Jan. 19: Katey Sagal - Futurama
- Jan. 29: Oprah Winfrey - Talk Show Host
- Feb. 02: Christie Brinkley - Model
- Feb. 15: Matt Groening - The Simpsons creator
- Feb. 18: John Travolta - Pulp Fiction
- Mar. 01: Ron Howard - Director
- Mar. 04: Catherine O'Hara - Home Alone
- Apr. 07: Jackie Chan - Rush Hour
- Apr. 29: Jerry Seinfeld - Seinfeld
- Aug. 25: Elvis Costello - Musician
- Jun. 15: James Belushi - According to Jim
- Jul. 18: Ricky Skaggs - Country Singer
- Jul. 28: Hugo Chavez - Venezuela President
- Dec. 15: Mark Warner - Virginia Senator
- Dec. 17: Bill Pullman - Independence Day
- Dec. 25: Annie Lennox - Musician
- Dec. 28: Denzel Washington - Training Day
Famous Deaths
- Jul. 13: Frida Kahlo - Mexican painter
- Nov. 03: Henri Matisse - French painter
Chart Toppers
- Jan. 02: Eddie Fisher - O Mein Papa
- Feb. 27: Doris Day - Secret Love
- Mar. 13: Jo Stafford - Make Love to Me
- Mar. 20: Doris Day - Secret Love
- Mar. 27: Jo Stafford - Make Love to Me
- Apr. 10: Perry Como - Wanted
- Jun. 05: Kitty Kallen - Little Things Mean a Lot
- Aug. 07: The Crew-Cuts - Sh-Boom
- Sept. 25: Rosemary Clooney - Hey There
- Nov. 06: Rosemary Clooney - This Ole House
- Nov. 13: Eddie Fisher - I Need You Now
- Dec. 04: The Chordettes - Mr. Sandman Billboard: Historical Billboard Charts
Top Grossing Films
27th Academy Awards
- Presented on: March 30, 1955
- Best Picture: On the Waterfront
- Best Actor: Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront
- Best Actress: Grace Kelly in The Country Girl
- Best Director: Elia Kazan for On the Waterfront
- Best Documentary: The Vanishing Prairie Rope of Silicon: Oscar Award Winners list
Championship Teams
Top Athletes
Nobel Laureates
1954 Timeline
March 1 1954
March 1954
- March 1: Five members of the U.S. House of Representatives are wounded after nationalists from Puerto Rican opened fire in the gallery.
April 1954
- April 22: Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the U.S. Army, which he charges with being "soft" on communism.
May 1954
- May 6: British Runner Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes during a track meet at Oxford
- May 18: Brown vs. Board of Education is decided by the The U.S. Supreme Court which declared that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal.
June 1954
- June 14: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an order adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance
July 1954
- July 7: WHBQ in Memphis, Tennessee played the first Elvis Presley recording over the radio, the song That's All Right.
- July 21: France surrendered North Vietnam to the Communists.
November 1954
- November 1: Algeria began a rebellion against French rule.
- November 30: A woman in Alabama is struck by a meteorite after it crashed into her house.
December 1954
- December 2: The U.S. Senate voted 67 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy, Republican Senator from Wisconsin.
February 1954
- February 18: Joseph McCarthy holds hearings in search of communists in the U.S. Army.
October 1954
- October 22: West Germany joins NATO.
- October 27: Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio divorce
