1954 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1954?
- 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.
- April 1, 1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
- 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 12, 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets record “Rock Around the Clock” in New York City.
- April 19, 1954 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
- May 13, 1954 – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
- May 17, 1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
- May 29, 1954 – First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
- 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 15, 1954 – UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
- July 7, 1954 – Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, “That’s All Right.”
- August 10, 1954 – At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
- September 3, 1954 – The People’s Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.
- October 11, 1954 – First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
- October 19, 1954 – First ascent of Cho Oyu.
- November 1, 1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
- November 27, 1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
- 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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