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10-26-2009, 02:36 PM

1954

January 14: Marilyn weds DiMaggio.January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from East Germany.
January 12 – Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200.
January 14 – Marilyn Monroe marries baseball player Joe DiMaggio.
January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya.
January 17 – In Yugoslavia, Milovan Djilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties.
January 20
The coldest day ever recorded in the contiguous United States at −56.5 °C (−70 °F).
The U.S.-based 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 First Lady of the United States Mamie Eisenhower.
January 25 – The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union meet at the Berlin Conference.
[edit] February
February 3 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first reigning monarch to visit Australia.
February 10 – After authorizing $385 million over the $400 million already budgeted for military aid to Vietnam, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
February 23 – The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
February 25 – Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes premier of Egypt.
[edit] March
March 1
U.S. officials announce that a hydrogen bomb test has been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
U.S. Capitol shooting incident: Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire in the United States House of Representatives chamber and wound 5; they are apprehended by security guards.
March 9 – American journalists Edward Murrow and Fred W. Friendly produce a 30-minute See It Now documentary, entitled A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy.
March 12 – Finland and Germany officially end their state of war.
March 13 – French troops begin the battle against the Vietminh in Dien Bien Phu.
March 19 – Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory at Madison Square Garden, in the first televised boxing prize fight to be shown in color.
March 23 – In Vietnam, the Viet Minh capture the main airstrip of Dien Bien Phu. The remaining French Army units there are partially isolated.
March 25
The 26th Academy Awards ceremony is held.
RCA manufactures the first color TV set (12" screen; price: $1,000).
The Soviet Union recognizes the sovereignty of East Germany but Soviet troops remain in the country.
March 27 – The Castle Romeo nuclear test explosion is executed.
March 28 – Puerto Rico's first television station, WKAQ-TV, commences broadcasting.
March 29 – A C-47 transport with the French nurse Genevieve de Galard on board is wrecked on the runway at Dien Bien Phu.
March 30 – The first first operational subway line in Canada opens in Toronto, Ontario.
[edit] April
April 1 – The U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorize the founding of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado
April 1 – South Point School (India) was founded that would grow to the largest school in the world by 1992.
April 3 – Vladimir Petrov defects from the Soviet Union and asks for political asylum in Australia.
April 4 – The legendary symphony conductor Arturo Toscanini experiences a lapse of memory during a concert. At this concert's end, his retirement is announced, and Toscanini never conducts in public again.
April 7 – Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
April 14 – Aneurin Bevan resigns from the British Labour Party's "shadow cabinet".
April 14 – A Soviet spy ring in Australia is unveiled.
April 16 – Vice President Richard Nixon announces that the United States may be “putting our own boys in Indochina regardless of Allied support.”
April 22 – Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the United States Army for being "soft" on Communism.
[edit] May
May 1 – The Unification Church is founded in South Korea.
May 4 – General Alfredo Stroessner seizes power in a coup d'état in Paraguay.
May 6 – Roger Bannister runs the first four-minute mile.
May 7 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
May 14 – The Boeing 707 is released after about two years of development.
May 17
Brown v. Board of Education (347 US 483 1954): The United States Supreme Court rules that segregated schools are unconstitutional.
The Petrov Royal Commission in Australia begins its inquiry.
May 20 – Chiang Kai-shek is reelected president of the Republic of China by the National Assembly.
May 22 – The common Nordic Labour Market act is signed.
May 29 – Robert Menzies's government is re-elected for a 4th term in Australia.
[edit] June
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, saying, 'Have you, at long last, no decency?'.
June 14 – The words "under God" are added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
June 15 – The UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
June 17 – A CIA-engineered military coup occurs in Guatemala.
June 18 – Pierre Mendès-France becomes prime minister of France.
June 27
Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán steps down in a CIA-sponsored military coup, triggering a bloody civil war that continues for more than 35 years.
The world's first atomic power station opens at Obninsk, near Moscow.
[edit] July
July 1
The Common Nordic Labor Market Act comes into effect.
The United States officially begins using the international unit of the nautical mile, equal to 6,076.11549 ft. or 1,852 meters.
July 4
Meat, the last form of food rationing in Great Britain, ends.
West Germany beats Hungary 3–2 to win the 1954 FIFA World Cup.
July 10 Peter Thomson (Australian golfer) becomes the first Australian to win the British Open Golf Championship.
July 15
The maiden flight of the Boeing 367-80 (or Dash 80), the prototype of the Boeing 707 series.
Juan Fangio, the Argentine driver for German Grand Prix team Mercedes Benz, made a new fastest lap of the Silverstone with an average speed of 100.35 mph, the previous record being 100.16 mph.
July 21 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference sends French forces to the south, and Vietnamese forces to the north, of a ceasefire line, and calls for elections to decide the government for all of Vietnam by July 1956. Failure to abide by the terms of the agreement leads to the establishment de facto regimes of North Vietnam and South Vietnam, and the Vietnam War.
[edit] August
August 6 – Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets, dies of asphyxiation following an epileptic seizure at Sainte Agathe, Quebec. She was the first of the five to perish, and three of them lived into the 21st Century.
August 16 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated magazine is published in the United States.
August 24 – The Brazilian president, Getulio Vargas, commits suicide after being accused of involvment in a conspiracy to murder a Brazilian Air Force officer.
[edit] September
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 6 – The SEATO treaty is signed in Manila, Philippines.
September 8 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established in Bangkok, Thailand.
September 9 – An earthquake centered on the city of Orleansville, Algeria kills 1,500 and leaves thousands homeless.
September 11 – The Miss America Pageant is broadcast on television for the first time.
September 14 – The USSR tests a nuclear weapon.
September 25 – The Footscray Football Club wins their first Grand Final.
September 26 – The Japanese ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait. More than 1,100 people are killed.
September 30 – The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, is commissioned by the United States Navy.
[edit] October
October 11
Vietnam War: The Viet Minh takes control of North Vietnam.
Hurricane Hazel crosses over Haiti, killing 1,000.
October 15 – Hurricane Hazel makes U.S. landfall; it is the only recorded Category 4 hurricane to strike as far north as North Carolina.
October 18 – Texas Instruments announces the development of the first transistor radio.
October 20 – A dock workers' strike expands in England.
October 23 – West Germany joins NATO.
October 25 – Landslides caused by heavy rains hit Salerno, Italy, killing about 300.
October 26 – Muslim Brotherhood member Mahmoud Abdul Latif tries to kill Gamal Abdal Nasser.
October 31 – Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.
[edit] November
November 1 – The FLN attacks representative and public buildings of the French colonial power.
November 2 – The dock workers' strike in England ends.
November 3- The first Godzilla movie premieres in Tokyo, Japan.
November 5 – Japan and Burma sign a separate peace treaty in Rangoon, to end their formal state of war.
November 10 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
November 12 – The main immigration port-of-entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes.
November 14 – Egyptian president Mohammed Naguib is deposed; Gamal Abdel Nasser replaces him.
November 23 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises 3.27 points, or 0.86%, closing at an all-time high of 382.74. More significantly, this is the first time the Dow has surpassed its 1929 peak level reached just before that year's crash.
November 30 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, a four kilogram piece of the Hodges Meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and badly bruises a napping woman, in the first documented case of an object from outer space hitting a person.
[edit] December
December 1 The first Hyatt Hotel, The Hyatt House Los Angeles, opens. It is the first hotel in the world built outside of an airport.
December 2
Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 67–22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
The Taiwan-United States Mutual Defense Treaty is signed. [1]
December 4 – The first Burger King opens in Miami, Florida, USA.
December 24 – Laos gains full independence from France.
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New Zealand inventor Sir William Hamilton invents the world's first water pump-jet engine, later named the "Hamilton Jet".
The first successful kidney transplant is done in Boston, Massachusetts - from one identical twin to his brother, which was the only possibility for avoiding organ rejection at that time. All previous and contemperoneous attempts were doomed by rejection.
The Boy Scouts of America desegregates on the basis of race.
Gerbils (Meriones Unguiculatus) are brought to the United States by Dr. Victor Schwentker.
The case of Lothar Malskat, who had admitted that he had painted the supposedly antique frescoes in Marienkirche himself, goes to trial.
The TV dinner is introduced by the American entrepreneur Gerry Thomas.
The New York City Ballet's co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine's production of The Nutcracker is staged for the first time in [New York City]], and it became a tradition there, still being performed annually as of 2008.
South Korea opens the Gimpo International Airport.
The novel Lord of the Flies is published.

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