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1954
Events
January
January 1
– The
Soviet Union
ceases to demand
war reparations
from
East Germany
.
January 10
–
BOAC Flight 781
, a
de Havilland Comet
jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to
metal fatigue
and crashes in the Mediterranean near
Elba
. All 35 people on board are killed.
January 12
–
Avalanches
in Austria kill more than 200.
January 14
–
Marilyn Monroe
marries
baseball
player
Joe DiMaggio
.
January 15
–
Mau Mau
leader
Waruhiu Itote
is captured in
Kenya
.
January 17
– In
Yugoslavia
,
Milovan Ðilas
, one of the leading members of the
League of Communists of Yugoslavia
, is relieved of his duties.
January 20
– The US-based
National Negro Network
is established with forty-six member
radio stations
.
January 21
– The first nuclear-powered
submarine
, the , is launched in
Groton, Connecticut
, by
First Lady of the United States
Mamie Eisenhower
.
January 25
– The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union meet at the
Berlin Conference
.
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