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.
- 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 1, 1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
- April 18, 1954 – Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
- 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.
- May 13, 1954 – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
- August 13, 1954 – Radio Pakistan broadcasts the “Qaumī Tarāna”, the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
- August 24, 1954 – The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
- September 3, 1954 – The German U-Boat U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.
- 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 11, 1954 – First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
- October 19, 1954 – First ascent of Cho Oyu.
- November 22, 1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
- November 27, 1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
- November 30, 1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges Meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap in the only documented case of a human being hit by a rock from space.
- 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 15, 1954 – The Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands is signed.
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