Born in 1954

£1 in 1954 would be worth approximately £37.00 in today's money.

A selection from Wikipedia's '1954 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

• 25 January – First broadcast of Dylan Thomas's radio play Under Milk Wood, two months after its author's death, with Richard Burton as 'First Voice', on the BBC Third Programme.
• 23 March – The film Doctor in the House is released.
• 2 April – BBC Television broadcasts the first episode of The Grove Family, the first British TV soap opera.
• 6 June – First broadcast on the Eurovision Network founded by Britain, Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland of a message from Pope Pius XII.
• 19 July – United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority established by the Atomic Energy Act "to produce, use and dispose of atomic energy and carry out research into any matters therewith".
• 14 September – Benjamin Britten's chamber opera The Turn of the Screw receives its world premiere at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice.
• 18 September – Marble head of Mithras from London Mithraeum unearthed in Walbrook Square.
• 19 October – Exmoor is designated a National Park, the 6th in England.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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