Editing 1954 (section)

===January===
{{Main|January 1954}}
* [[January 3]] &ndash; The Italian broadcaster [[RAI]] officially begins transmitting.<ref>{{cite web |title=Il 1954 IN ITALIA |url=http://www.ribolla2004.it/testi02/index.php |website=Ribolla 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007200202/http://www.ribolla2004.it/testi02/index.php |archive-date=October 7, 2011 |trans-title=1954 IN ITALY |language=it |year=2004 |access-date=November 6, 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Georgetown–IBM experiment]]: The first public demonstration of a [[machine translation]] system is held in New York, at the head office of [[IBM]].<ref>{{cite web |title=701 Translator |date=January 8, 1954 |url=https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/701/701_translator.html |website=IBM Archives |department=701 Reference room |access-date=November 4, 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://accidents-ll.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=1&LLID=28 |date=January 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215210450/http://accidents-ll.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=1&LLID=28 |archive-date=February 15, 2013 |title=de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1 |website=Lessons Learned From Transport Airplane Accidents |publisher=[[Federal Aviation Administration]] |access-date=November 4, 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[1954 Blons avalanches|Avalanche]]s in Austria kill more than 200.
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Mau Mau rebellion|Mau Mau]] leader [[Waruhiu Itote]] is captured in [[Kenya]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nation.africa/lifestyle/lifestyle/The-Mau-Mau-general-who-stopped-Amin-in-his-tracks-/1214-887822-fu8jft/index.html |title=The Mau Mau general who stopped Amin in his tracks |website=Nation |date=March 27, 2010 |publisher=[[Nation Media Group]] |access-date=November 5, 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 17]] &ndash; In [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], [[Milovan Đilas]], one of the leading members of the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia]], is relieved of his duties.
* [[January 20]] &ndash; The US-based [[National Negro Network]] is established, with 46 member [[radio station]]s.
* [[January 21]] &ndash; The first nuclear-powered [[submarine]], the {{USS|Nautilus|SSN-571|6}}, is launched in [[Groton, Connecticut]], by [[First Lady of the United States]] [[Mamie Eisenhower]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/nautilus-ssn-571-iv.html |title=Nautilus IV (SSN-571) |dictionary=[[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]] |date=August 12, 2015 |publisher=Naval History and Heritage Command |access-date=November 4, 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 25]] &ndash; The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union meet at the [[Berlin Conference (1954)|Berlin Conference]].<ref>{{cite book |last=van Dijk |first=Rund |title=Encyclopedia of the Cold War |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |year=2008 |page=51 |isbn=978-0-415-97515-5}}</ref>

[[File:Monroe DiMaggio Wedding.jpg|thumb|120px|[[January 14]]: [[Marilyn Monroe|Marilyn]] weds [[Joe DiMaggio|DiMaggio]].]]