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September 11 – The Miss America Pageant is broadcast on television for the first time. September 16 – Lewis Strauss , chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission , in a speech to the National Association of Science Writers claims: "It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too ...
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A June 1964 Paul Welch Life article, "Homosexuality In America", was the first time a national mainstream publication reported on gay issues. Life 's photographer was referred to the gay leather bar in San Francisco called the Tool Box for the article by Hal Call , who had long worked to dispel the myth that all gay men were effeminate.
After its successful run at LIFE magazine, The World we Live in was released in book form in 1955, [33] abridged in 1956 for younger readers by Jane Werner Watson, [34] and re-released in a three-volume "Family Edition" in 1962. [35] Some minor schematic diagrams were cut to better fit the format of the book.
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In "Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021" (published by St. Martin's Press), former German Chancellor Angela Merkel writes about two lives: her early years growing up under a Communist-controlled police ...
1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1954th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 954th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1950s decade.
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