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.
- 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.
- March 1, 1954 – Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
- April 1, 1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
- April 22, 1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army-McCarthy Hearings begins.
- May 13, 1954 – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
- 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 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
- July 5, 1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
- July 15, 1954 – First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
- July 21, 1954 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
- September 30, 1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
- October 11, 1954 – First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
- October 24, 1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
- November 19, 1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe’s oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
- December 2, 1954 – The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, D.C.
- December 15, 1954 – The Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands is signed.
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