Everything that happened in 1954

== January ==
* January 10, BOAC Flight 781 falls apart over the mediterranean near Elba, killing 35
* January 12, the Blons Avalanche happens in Austria killing over 200
* January 15, Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya
* January 21, the first nuclear powered submarine, the USS Nautilus is launched in Groton, Connecticut
== February ==
* February 3, Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first reigning monarch to visit Australia
* February 10, after sending 785 Million dollars in aid to Vietnam, Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
* February 19, the Crimean Oblast is transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukranian SSR
* February 23, the mass vaccination against Polio starts in Pittsburgh
* February 25, Gamel Abdel Nassar becomes premier of Egypt
== March ==
* March 1, the US governments announced the Castle Bravo test on Bikini Atoll took place
* March 1, US Capitol Shooting incident: 4 Puerto Rican nationalists open fire in the US Capitol injuring 5
* March 13, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu begins, at the climax of the First Indochina War
* March 25, the 26th Academy Awards happen
* March 27, Nuclear test Castle Romeo happens on Bikini Atoll
* March 30, the first operational subway line in Canada opens in Toronto
== April ==
* April 3, the Petrov Affair happens when Vladimir Petrov seeks asylum in Austria
* April 8, RCAF plane crashes in Moose Jaw killing 37
* April 11, marked as the most boring day in history
* April 12, Bill Haley & His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock", which is released on May 20th starting the Rock & Roll craze
* April 22, Joseph McCartney begins hearings on the US Army for being "too soft on Communism"
* April 26, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai is released in Japan
* April 26, the Geneva Conference of 1954 happens
== May ==
* May 4, Alfredo Stroessner becomes president of Paraguay from a Coup d'état
* May 14, the Boeing 707 is released
* May 17, in Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools are unconstitutional
* May 26, A fire on board the USS Bennington kills 103 sailors
* May 29, Robert Menzies is re-elected as prime minister of Australia
== June ==
* June 7, Alan Turing kills himself at age 41
* June 9, Joseph N. Welch (special counsel for US Army) lashes out at McCarthy, saying "Have you no sense of decency?" which becomes one of the most well known quotes of the McCarthyism era in US Politics
* June 14, the words "Under God" are added to the US Pledge of Allegiance
* June 17, a military coup, engineered by the CIA takes place in Guatemala
* June 18, Pierre Mendès France becomes prime minister of France
* June 27, the world's first Nuclear Power Station is opened in the USSR
== July ==
* July 1, the United States begins using the Mile as unit of measurement 
* July 4, the UK ends food rationing 4 years after WWII
* July 4, West Germany wins the 1954 FIFA World Cup
* July 13, Frida Kahlo dies
* July 17, Machine Gun Kelly dies
* July 19, Elvis Presley's first single "That's All Right" is released by Sun Records
* July 21, due to failure to abide to the Geneva Conference, Vietnam is split into North Vietnam and South Vietnam
* July 29, the first volume of the Lord of the Rings is published
* July 31, Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni become the first people to reach the summit of K2
== August ==
* August 1, the First Indochina War ends
* August 6, Emilie Dionne, becomes the first of the Dionne quintuplets to die following an epileptic seizure
* August 16, the first issue of Sports Illustrated is published 
* August 23, the Lockheed C-130 Hercules makes it's first flight in Burbank California
* August 24, Brazilian president, Getúlio Vargas kills himself
== September ==
* September 6, SEATO is signed in Manilla
* September 9, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake hits Northern Algeria, destroying Orléansville leaving 1,409 people dead.
* September 11, Miss America is broadcasted for the first time
* September 14, the Totskoye Nuclear Exercise takes place in the USSR
* September 17, the Lord of the Flies is published
* September 20, the first Moomins comic strip is published
* September 26, the Tōya Maru sinks in a typhoon killing 1,100
* September 27, the Tonight Show first airs
== October ==
* October 11, Hurricane Hazel hits Haiti, killing 1000
* October 23, West Germany joins NATO
* October 25, Heavy rain causes landslides in Salerno, Italy, which kill about 300
* October 31, the Algerian war of independence starts
== November ==
* November 3, Godzilla is first released in Japan
* November 3, Henri Matisse dies
* November 10, the USCM Memorial is dedicated in Virginia
* November 12, Ellis Island closed
* November 22, Berman v. Parker
* November 30, the Hodges Meteorite hits a women who was sleeping in her house in Alabama, this is the only known time that a person has been hit by a Meteorite
== December ==
* December 2, the Senate votes 67-22 to condemn McCarthy
* December 4, the first Burger King opens in Miami, Florida
* December 15, the Netherlands Antilles is formed
* December 23, two doctors complete the world's first successful kidney transplant, in Boston
* December 24, Laos declares full independence from France
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