Walt Disney signed a contract with
ABC television for the
Disneyland series, and plans were announced for the building of the
Disneyland theme park (provisionally called "Disneylandia") in
California, along with a prospectus for the company's potential investors.[3]
Suffering from failing memory, legendary symphony conductor
Arturo Toscanini was obliged to abandon plans for the German Requiem and introduce an alternative programme at his last concert.[8]
In a
general election in Belgium, the
Christian Social Party won 95 of the 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives, and 49 of the 106 seats in the Senate.[26] The government, led by
Jean Van Houtte, lost its majority in parliament. The two other main parties, the Socialist and Liberal Party, subsequently formed a rare "purple" government, with
Achille Van Acker as Prime Minister.
April 11, 1954, is considered by search engine
Evi as the least eventful day in the 20th century. Very few significant newsworthy events, births, or deaths are known to have happened on this day.[29][30]
A Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain belonging to the
Chilean Air Force, carrying a cargo of meat from
Santiago to Los Cóndores Air Base, crashed near
Batuco, killing all 14 people on board.[45]
Two
KGB couriers from the
USSR arrived at
Sydney Airport to escort
Evdokia Petrova, a Soviet intelligence officer and the wife of
Vladimir Petrov, who had recently defected to the
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, back to the USSR. The couriers were met by anti-Communist demonstrators, and the incident made world headlines. The photograph of Petrova being manhandled by the two couriers became an iconic Australian image of the 1950s, and she was removed from the plane at
Darwin.[56]
France's Foreign Minister
Georges Bidault told US Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles that only U.S. air strikes could save
Điện Biên Phủ; France dropped its objections to a multinational effort. British PM
Winston Churchill refused to give any undertakings about United Kingdom military action in Indochina.[61]
^Davis, Martin (1994). "Emil L. Post: His Life and Work". Solvability, Provability, Definability: The Collected Works of Emil L. Post. Birkhäuser. pp. xi–xxviii.
Walt Disney signed a contract with
ABC television for the
Disneyland series, and plans were announced for the building of the
Disneyland theme park (provisionally called "Disneylandia") in
California, along with a prospectus for the company's potential investors.[3]
Suffering from failing memory, legendary symphony conductor
Arturo Toscanini was obliged to abandon plans for the German Requiem and introduce an alternative programme at his last concert.[8]
In a
general election in Belgium, the
Christian Social Party won 95 of the 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives, and 49 of the 106 seats in the Senate.[26] The government, led by
Jean Van Houtte, lost its majority in parliament. The two other main parties, the Socialist and Liberal Party, subsequently formed a rare "purple" government, with
Achille Van Acker as Prime Minister.
April 11, 1954, is considered by search engine
Evi as the least eventful day in the 20th century. Very few significant newsworthy events, births, or deaths are known to have happened on this day.[29][30]
A Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain belonging to the
Chilean Air Force, carrying a cargo of meat from
Santiago to Los Cóndores Air Base, crashed near
Batuco, killing all 14 people on board.[45]
Two
KGB couriers from the
USSR arrived at
Sydney Airport to escort
Evdokia Petrova, a Soviet intelligence officer and the wife of
Vladimir Petrov, who had recently defected to the
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, back to the USSR. The couriers were met by anti-Communist demonstrators, and the incident made world headlines. The photograph of Petrova being manhandled by the two couriers became an iconic Australian image of the 1950s, and she was removed from the plane at
Darwin.[56]
France's Foreign Minister
Georges Bidault told US Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles that only U.S. air strikes could save
Điện Biên Phủ; France dropped its objections to a multinational effort. British PM
Winston Churchill refused to give any undertakings about United Kingdom military action in Indochina.[61]
^Davis, Martin (1994). "Emil L. Post: His Life and Work". Solvability, Provability, Definability: The Collected Works of Emil L. Post. Birkhäuser. pp. xi–xxviii.