1954 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1954?
- January 14, 1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
- January 21, 1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
- February 3, 1954 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 13, 1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game
- 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.
- April 8, 1954 – South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
- 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 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?”
- July 5, 1954 – The Andhra Pradesh High Court is established.
- July 20, 1954 – Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany’s secret service, defects to East Germany.
- August 15, 1954 – Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
- September 3, 1954 – The People’s Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.
- September 11, 1954 – Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
- September 27, 1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
- 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.
- December 4, 1954 – The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, United States
- December 15, 1954 – The Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands is signed.
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