1954

Years: 1951 1952 1953 - 1954 - 1955 1956 1957
Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1954 in art 1954 in aviation 1954 in film 1954 in literature 1954 in music 1954 in radio 1954 in science 1954 in sports 1954 in television

Events

January events

January 14 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation
January 14 - Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio.
January 15 - Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya
January 20 - The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations
January 21 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut, by Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
January 25 - The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union meet at the Berlin Conference.

February events

February 3 - Queen Elizabeth II is the first reigning monarch to visit Australia
February 10 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam
February 23 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
February 25 - Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.

March events

March 1 - Nuclear testing: Officials announce that an American hydrogen bomb test had been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
March 8 - PR Newswire founded in New York by Herb Muschel.
March 19 - Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in color.
March 22 - The London gold market reopens (it was closed in 1939).
March 23 - Vietminh capture the main airstrip of Dien Bien Phu - French forces are partially isolated
March 29 - C-47 with Genevieve de Galard on board is incapacitated on Dien Bien Phu runway
March 30 - Canada's first subway opens in Toronto.

April events

April 1 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado
April 7 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his"domino theory" speech during a news conference
April 14 � Aneurin Bevan resigns from the Labour shadow cabinet
April 22 - Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the United States Army for being "soft" on Communism.

May events

May 1 - Taku (city in Japan) founded
May 6 - Roger Bannister runs the first four minute mile
May 7 - Construction started on Michigan's Mackinac Bridge.
May 7 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
May 17 - US Supreme Court hands down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 347 US 483 1954
May 20 - Chiang Kai-shek is reelected president of the Republic of China by the National Assembly.

June events

June 9 - McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army
June 15 - UEFA (the Union des Associations Europ�ennes de Football) is formed in Basle, Switzerland.
June 18 - Pierre Mendes-France becomes prime minister of France
June 19 - The last regular-service streetcar operated by Twin City Rapid Transit runs in Minneapolis.
June 27 - Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzm�n steps down in a CIA-sponsored military coup–Operation PBSUCCESS–triggering a bloody civil war that would continue for more than 35 years.
June 27 - The world's first atomic power station opened at Obnisnsk, near Moscow.

July events

July 3 - End of rationing of meat ends all the food rationing in Britain
July 7 - In Memphis, Tennessee, WHBQ becomes the first radio station to air an Elvis Presley record
July 21 - First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam
July 28 - Foundation of the Situationist International.
July 31 - First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition.

August events

August - First flight of a B-52 Stratofortress.
August 6 - Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets, dies of asphyxiation following a epileptic seizure at Sainte Agathe, Quebec.
August 16 - Volume 1, Issue 1 of Sports Illustrated is published
August 24 - President of Brazil, Getulio Vargas, commits suicide; he's been accused of conspiracy to murder an air force officer.

September events

September 3 - The last new episode of the Lone Ranger is aired on radio after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years
September 8 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established in Bangkok, Thailand
September 9 - An earthquake centered on the city of Oleansville in Algeria - 1500 dead and thousands homeless
September 11 - First Miss America Pageant broadcast on television
September 14 - USSR Tests Nuclear Weapon
September 24 - Temple of Mithras found in London
September 30 - USS Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (submarine), commissioned by the US Navy
September 30 - Rev. Ernest Gentile, and his wife Joy, found Gospel Temple in Spokane, WA, which later becomes Rock of Ages Christian Fellowship.

October events

October 11 - Vietnam War: The Viet Minh takes control of North Vietnam.
October 18 - Texas Instruments announces the worldwide first Transistor radio.
October 26 � Member of Muslim Brotherhood Abdul Munim Abdul Rauf tries to kill Gamal Abdal Nasser
October 31 - Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.

November events

November - The main immigration port-of-entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes.
November 3 - The first in the Godzilla series of films is released in Japan.
November 10 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery
November 30 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, an 8.5 pound sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise (this is the first known modern case of a human being hit by a space rock).

December events

December 2 - Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 67 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
December 24 - Laos becomes independent.

Undated

Battle of Dien Bien Phu between French and Viet Minh forces in Indochina
Boy Scouts of America desegregates on the basis of race
Stop signs are changed from black-on-yellow to white-on-red
Gerbils (Meriones Unguiculatus), brought to the United States by Dr. Victor Schwentker.

Births

January births

January 2 - Henry Bonilla, American politician
January 6 - Anthony Minghella, director
January 12 - Howard Stern, "shock-jock" radio host
January 22 - Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
January 29 - Oprah Winfrey, actress, talk show host, producer, publisher
January 29 - Yukinobu Hoshino, Japanese mangaka

July births

July 10 - Neil Tennant, British musician

August births

August 1 - Michael J. Badnarik, Software engineer and United States Libertarian Party Presidential candidate.
August 11 - Joe Jackson, British singer
August 14 - Mark Fidrych, baseball pitcher
August 16 - James Cameron, film director
August 20 - Al Roker, television broadcaster
August 26 - Pauline Hanson, politician

September births

September 13 - Steve Kilbey, Australian musician
September 23 - Cherie Booth QC, wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair
September 26 - Kevin Kennedy, baseball manager, television host
September 30 - Barry Williams, actor

October births

October 1 - Martin Strel, Slovene ultra marathon swimmer
October 3 - Dennis Eckersley, baseball pitcher
October 9 - Scott Bakula, American television actor

November births

November 14 - Condoleezza Rice, US National Security Advisor (2001-present)
November 15 - Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland

December births

December 2 - Dan Butler, actor
December 14 - Alan Kulwicki, NASCAR driver (d. 1993)
December 20 - Michael Badalucco, actor (The Practice)
December 26 - Susan Butcher, American dog-sled racing champion

Deaths

January deaths

January 18 - Sydney Greenstreet, actor

February deaths

February 12 - Dziga Vertov, filmmaker

May deaths

May 6 - B.C. Forbes, financial publisher
May 19 - Charles Ives, American composer

June deaths

June 7 - Alan Turing, mathematician

July deaths

July 11 - Henry Valentine Knaggs, physician and author
July 13 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
July 29 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater

August deaths

August 24 - Get�lio Vargas, brazilian president

September

September 21 - Kokichi Mikimoto, pearl farm pioneer

October deaths

November 3 - Henri Matisse, painter
November 29 - Enrico Fermi, physicist
November 29 - Dink Johnson, jazz musician (b. 1892)
November 30 - Wilhelm Furtw�ngler, conductor

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Max Born, - Walther Bothe
Chemistry - Linus Carl Pauling
Medicine - John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins
Literature - Ernest Miller Hemingway
Peace - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Heads of state in 1954

President Dwight Eisenhower - United States
Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser - Egypt
Chiang Kai-shek - China
President Get�lio Vargas - Brazil
Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent - Canada

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