1954 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1954?
- January 14, 1954 – Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
- January 20, 1954 – The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
- February 3, 1954 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 28, 1954 – The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
- March 1, 1954 – Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
- April 8, 1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
- April 26, 1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
- May 10, 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release “Rock Around the Clock”, the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
- June 9, 1954 – 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 giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, “You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
- June 12, 1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest non-martyr saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
- June 27, 1954 – The world’s first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
- August 24, 1954 – The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
- September 11, 1954 – Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
- September 26, 1954 – Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
- October 11, 1954 – First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
- October 27, 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
- November 10, 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
- December 2, 1954 – Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute”.
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