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 – Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
- February 3, 1954 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Horse in Chinese astrology.
- March 1, 1954 – Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
- March 22, 1954 – Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
- 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 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.
- 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 14, 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words “under God” into the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance.
- June 15, 1954 – UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
- July 5, 1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
- 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 14, 1954 – In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village, exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians to nuclear fallout.
- October 27, 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
- November 22, 1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
- 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”.
- 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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