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April 11, 1954, is considered by search engine Evi as the least eventful day in the 20th century. Very few significant newsworthy events, births, or deaths are known to have happened on this day. Very few significant newsworthy events, births, or deaths are known to have happened on this day.
1954 in various calendars. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1954. 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1954th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 954th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1950s decade.
April 11 is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) ... 1954 – Aleksandr Averin, Azerbaijani cyclist and coach; 1954 – Francis Lickerish, ...
November 10 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery. November 12 – The main immigration port of entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes. November 23 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises 3.27 points, or 0.86%, closing at an all-time high of 382.74.
7 April. President Eisenhower used the phrase "falling dominoes" in a press conference. This was the origin of the domino theory which postulated that if Vietnam became communist the other nearby states would soon follow. The domino theory was a prominent justification for the Vietnam War in the United States during the 1960s. [7]: 10 14 April
January 4 – The Brighter Day (1954–1962) January 23 – Stories of the Century (1954–1955) February 1 - The Secret Storm (1954–1974) March 11 – The Public Defender on CBS (1954–1955) April 2 – The Grove Family, on BBC Television (1954–1957); generally considered the first British TV soap opera.
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).
e. The 1954 United States Capitol shooting was an attack on March 1, 1954, by four Puerto Rican nationalists seeking to promote Puerto Rican independence from the United States. They fired 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols onto the legislative floor from the Ladies' Gallery (a balcony for visitors) of the House of Representatives chamber ...