September 1954

• Died: Bert Acosta, American aviator (b. 1895)

• The last 'new' episode of The Lone Ranger radio program is broadcast, after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years. Reruns of old episodes continue to be transmitted.
• Died: Eugene Pallette, American actor (b. 1889)

• Soviet war planes shot down a US bomber near or over the coast of Siberia. 9 of the 10 crewmembers would be rescued.
• Dmitri Shostakovich was awarded the International Peace Prize, in Moscow.
• U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower signed a bill allowing revocation of the citizenship of anyone advocating violent overthrow of the government.

• A passenger plane Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation, KLM Flight 633, crashed into River Shannon after takeoff from Shannon, Ireland, killing 28 out of 56 passengers.
• Died: Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)

• The SEATO treaty is signed in Manila, Philippines.
• Died: Edward C. Kalbfus, American admiral (b. 1877)

• Died:
  • Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
  • Glenn Scobey Warner, American college football coach (b. 1871)

• The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established in Bangkok, Thailand.

Patricia Lynn Rebbe born in St Louis Missouri. Mother of Jeremiah George Dellas and Melanie Christine Dellas Coval.

• An earthquake centered on the city of Orléansville, Algeria kills 1,500 and leaves thousands homeless.

• The Miss America Pageant is broadcast on television for the first time.

• The Soviet Union test fires a thermonuclear bomb for the first time.
• English composer Benjamin Britten's chamber opera version of The Turn of the Screw receives its world premiere at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy.

• Black Wednesday in air travel: severe delays to flights due to bad weather along the East Coast of the United States.

• William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies is published in London.

• Born: Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (d. 2007)

• Died: Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (b. 1858)

• A riot occurs at Missouri state penitentiary in Jefferson City. During the incident four inmates are killed and multiple guards are injured. several parts of the prison are burned by inmates. Burnt areas of the prison from the riot would remain for ten years.

Pat Bowe was born in Vicarstown, Co Laois on this day.

• Born: Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla (d. 1983)
• Died: Edward Pilgrim, British homeowner (suicide) (b. 1904)

• Footscray Football Club win their first Australian Football League Grand Final.

• The Japanese ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait. More than 1,100 people are killed. Seven other ships are wrecked and at least nine others seriously damaged.

• Died: Bert Lytell, American actor (b. 1885)
• The Belles of St. Trinian's, starring Alastair Sim, is released to British film audiences.

• The CERN Convention finally came into force on 29 September, when France and Germany deposited their instruments of ratification at UNESCO House in Paris.

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• The USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the first nuclear-powered submarine in the world, is commissioned into the U.S. Navy.