1954

The year of 1954 CE.

Some facts about 1954:

  • Toronto opens Canada’s first subway line
  • Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai is released
  • Sarah Mae Flemming is expelled from a bus in South Carolina
  • JRR Tolkien published The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Elvis Presley’s first single is released
  • William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies is published in London
  • Gojira (Godzilla) premieres in Tokyo
  • The TV dinner is invented
  • Ernest Hemmingway wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
  • Aprill 11th is the most boring day in the 20th Century
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