1954

Events

   * January 14 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator
     forming the American Motors Corporation
   * January 20 - The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter
     member radio stations.
   * January 21 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is
     launched in Groton, Connecticut.
   * February 10 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States
     intervention in Vietnam
   * February 23 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio
     begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
   * February 25 - Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
   * March 1 - Nuclear testing: Officials announce that an American hydrogen
     bomb test had been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
   * March 1 - Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol
     building, injuring five Representatives.
   * March 4 - Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston announces the first
     successful kidney transplant.
   * March 9 - McCarthyism: CBS broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report
     on Senator Joseph McCarthy," produced by Edward R. Murrow.
   * March 13 - Battle of Dien Bien Phu: Viet Minh forces attack French
   * March 19 - Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at
     Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown
     in color.
   * March 22 - The London gold market reopens (it was closed in 1939).
   * April 1 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the
     United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
   * April 7 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his"domino theory" speech during a
     news conference.
   * April 22 - Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the
     United States Army for being "soft" on Communism.
   * May 7 - Construction started on Michigan's Mackinac Bridge.
   * May 7 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French
     defeat (the battle began on March 13).
   * May 17 - US Supreme Court hands down decision in Brown v. Board of
     Education of Topeka 347 US 483 1954
   * May 20 - Chiang Kai-shek is reelected president of the Republic of
     China by the National Assembly
   * July 7 - In Memphis, Tennessee, WHBQ becomes the first radio station to
     air an Elvis Presley record.
   * July 21 - First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam
     into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
   * July 28 - Foundation of the Situationist International
   * August 16 - Volume 1, Issue 1 of Sports Illustrated is published.
   * September 3 - The last new episode of the Lone Ranger is aired on radio
     after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years.
   * September 8 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is
     established.
   * October 11 - Vietnam War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
   * October 31 - Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National
     Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.
   * December 24 - Laos becomes independent

   * First flight of a B-52 Stratofortress
   * Battle of Dien Bien Phu between French and Viet Minh forces in
     Indochina
   * Boy Scouts of America desegregates on the basis of race

Births

   * January 6 - Anthony Minghella, director
   * January 12 - Howard Stern, "shock-jock" radio host
   * January 29 - Oprah Winfrey, actress, talk show host, producer,
     publisher
   * February 1 - Bill Mumy, actor, musician
   * February 2 - Christie Brinkley, model
   * February 6 - Argusto Emfazie, occultist, author
   * February 12 - Philip Zimmermann, American cryptographer
   * February 15 - Matt Groening, cartoonist
   * February 18 - John Travolta, actor
   * February 19 - Socrates, football player
   * February 20 - Patty Hearst, socialite
   * February 20 - Anthony Stewart Head, actor
   * February 25 - John Doe, musician
   * February 26 - Michael Bolton, singer
   * March 1 - Ron Howard, actor, director, producer
   * March 13 - Baroness Amos, British politician, first black woman in the
     UK Cabinet
   * March 16 - Nancy Wilson, guitarist, singer, actress
   * March 17 - Lesley-Anne Down, actress
   * April 7 - Jackie Chan, actor
   * April 7 - Tony Dorsett, American football star
   * April 17 - Riccardo Patrese, Italian racing driver
   * May 7 - Amy Heckerling, director
   * May 8 - David Keith, actor
   * June 22 - Freddie Prinze, actor/comedian (+ 1977)
   * July 10 - Neil Tennant, British musician
   * August 11 - Joe Jackson, British singer
   * October 1 - Martin Strel, Slovene ultra marathon swimmer
   * October 9 - Scott Bakula, American television actor

Deaths

   * January 18 - Sydney Greenstreet, actor
   * February 12 - Dziga Vertov, filmmaker
   * May 19 - Charles Ives, American composer
   * July 13 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
   * July 29 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater
   * September 21 - Kokichi Mikimoto, pearl farm pioneer
   * November 3 - Henri Matisse, painter
   * November 29 - Enrico Fermi, physicist
   * November 30 - Wilhelm FurtwŠngler, conductor

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Max Born, - Walther Bothe
   * Chemistry - Linus Carl Pauling
   * Medicine - John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick
     Chapman Robbins
   * Literature - Ernest Miller Hemingway
   * Peace - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
     Refugees.

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