What was happening in the US in 1954?

What was happening in the US in 1954?
1954 - What happened in 1954 ?
January 1954 Thursday 07:The first public demonstration of a machine translation system was held in New York at the head office of IBM.
 Thursday 14:The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation.
 Wednesday 20:The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
 Thursday 21:The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, then the First Lady of the United States.
January 1954


February 1954 Wednesday 10:President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
 Tuesday 23:The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
 Thursday 25:Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
February 1954


March 1954 Thursday 04:Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston announces the first successful kidney transplant.
 Tuesday 09:McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy," produced by Edward R. Murrow.
 Friday 19:Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in color.
 Monday 22:Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
 Tuesday 30:The first subway in Canada opens after five years of construction, in Toronto.
March 1954


April 1954 Thursday 01:President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
 Wednesday 07:U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
 Monday 12:Bill Haley and His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" in New York City. Initially unsuccessful, the recording would help launch the Rock and Roll revolution a year later.
 Thursday 22:Red Scare: Army-McCarthy Hearings begin.
 Monday 26:The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
April 1954


May 1954 Wednesday 05:A coup d'tat carries General Alfredo Stroessner to power in Paraguay.
 Thursday 06:Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
 Friday 07:Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
 Monday 10:Bill Haley and the Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts.
 Monday 17:The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
May 1954


June 1954 Tuesday 01:The Peanuts comic strip character Linus van Pelt is shown with a security blanket for the first time. http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/meet_linus.html
 Saturday 05:The last new episode of the comic variety program, Your Show of Shows, airs.
 Tuesday 15:UEFA (the Union des Associations Europennes de Football) is formed in Basle, Switzerland.
 Friday 18:Pierre Mends-France becomes Prime Minister of France
 Saturday 19:The animated Bugs Bunny short Devil May Hare debuts in theaters, introducing The Tasmanian Devil.
June 1954


July 1954 Wednesday 07:In Memphis, Tennessee, WHBQ becomes the first radio station to air an Elvis Presley record.
 Tuesday 20:United States Senator Joseph R. McCarthy accepts the resignation of his aide Roy Cohn.
 Wednesday 21:First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
 Thursday 29:The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of The Lord of the Rings, is published in the UK.
 Saturday 31:First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
July 1954


August 1954 Tuesday 10:At Massena, New York, the ground breaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
 Monday 16:Sports Illustrated magazine is first published.
 Tuesday 24:Getlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commit suicide and is succeeded by Joo Caf Filho.
August 1954


September 1954 Friday 03:The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy
 Wednesday 08:The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
 Wednesday 15:The U.S. Postal Service issues its 2 Thomas Jefferson Liberty Series stamp.
 Monday 27:The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
 Wednesday 29:The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
September 1954


October 1954 Monday 11:Vietnam War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
 Monday 18:Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio
 Tuesday 19:First ascent of Cho Oyu
 Wednesday 27:Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
 Sunday 31:Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.
October 1954


November 1954 Monday 01:The Front de Libration Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
 Wednesday 10:US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
 Saturday 13:Great Britain defeated France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
 Friday 19:Sammy Davis, Jr. loses his left eye in an automobile accident in San Bernardino, California.
 Tuesday 30:In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 pound sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock.
November 1954


December 1954 Thursday 02: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."
 Saturday 11:The American Nuclear Society is founded
 Thursday 23:The first human organ transplant, of a kidney, was performed by Doctors Murray and Harrison at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston.
 Friday 24:Laos becomes independent