1954 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1954?
- January 7, 1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
- January 14, 1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
- February 3, 1954 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 15, 1954 – Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
- February 25, 1954 – Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
- February 28, 1954 – The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
- March 1, 1954 – Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
- April 19, 1954 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
- May 6, 1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
- June 18, 1954 – Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
- June 27, 1954 – The world’s first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
- July 5, 1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
- July 20, 1954 – Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany’s secret service, defects to East Germany.
- August 23, 1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
- September 3, 1954 – The German U-Boat U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.
- September 27, 1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
- November 13, 1954 – Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
- November 19, 1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe’s oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
- November 22, 1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
- November 30, 1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges Meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap in the only documented case of a human being hit by a rock from space.
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