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| 1954 |
| | 19-year-old Françoise Sagan has a major international success with her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse | |
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| 1954 |
| | US truck driver Elvis Presley makes his first commercial recordings, for Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee | |
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| 1954 |
| | US choreographer Paul Taylor begins a long and fruitful collaboration with Robert Rauschenberg as his set designer | |
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| 1954 |
| | In an armistice ending the Indochina War, France acknowledges the independence of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam | |
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| 1954 |
| | 18-year-old English jockey Lester Piggott wins the first of a record nine Derbys | |
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| 1954 |
| | Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon launches the Unification Church, a mission to unify world Christianity | |
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| 1954 |
| | Seventeen-year-old English footballer Bobby Charlton begins a 19-year career playing for Manchester United | |
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| 1954 |
| | The country's president, Getúlio Vargas, commits suicide when the army in Brazil demands his resignation | |
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| 1954 |
| | Churchill moves Harold Macmillan to a new department, as minister of defence | |
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| 1954 |
| | Federico Fellini directs La Strada ('The Road'), starring his wife, Giulietta Masina, and Antony Quinn | |
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