Music Premiere
May 7 Cole Porter's musical "Can-Can" opens at the Shubert Theatre, NYC; runs for 892 performances
Music History
Jun 14 Elvis Presley graduates from L. C. Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee
- Aug 2 Betty Jack Davis, American country singer (with Skeeter Davis in The Davis Sisters), killed in car crash at 21
Film Release
Aug 5 "From Here to Eternity" based on book by James Jones, directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1954)
Music History
Oct 2 "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" opens at John Golden NYC for 849 performances
Music History
Oct 19 Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey
Music Release
Oct 25 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 10th Symphony
- Nov 6 Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb" premieres
- Nov 13 Dmitri Shostakovich's 4th String Quartet premieres
- Nov 25 "Guys & Dolls" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,200 performances
- Nov 28 "Wish You Were Here" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 597 performances
- Dec 3 Robert Wright and George Forrest's musical "Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater, NYC; runs for 583 performances, wins Tony Award for Best Musical
- Dec 3 Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich' 5th String Quartet
- Dec 3 Webb Pierce records single "In the Jailhouse Now" (Billboard Song of the Year, 1955)
- Dec 10 "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 performances
- Dec 17 Dmitri Shostakovich's 10th Symphony premieres in Leningrad