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April 1, 1954 (Thursday) The U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the founding of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. South Point School was founded in Kolkata, India. It would become the largest school in the world by 1988. [1]
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 ... Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, ... 1954 – Abdullah Atalar, ...
Evi (formerly True Knowledge) is a technology company in Cambridge, England, founded by William Tunstall-Pedoe, [ 1][ 2][ 3] which specialises in knowledge base and semantic search engine software. Its first product was an answer engine that aimed to directly answer questions on any subject posed in plain English text, which is accomplished ...
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.
The Seattle windshield pitting epidemic is a phenomenon which affected Bellingham, Seattle, and other communities of Washington state in April 1954; it is considered an example of a mass delusion. [1] It was characterized by widespread observation of previously unnoticed windshield holes, pits and dings, leading residents to believe that a ...
North Vietnamese refugees move from a French landing ship to the USS Montague during Operation Passage to Freedom in August 1954. The predictions made by Diem and Ely were extremely inaccurate. [26] There had been heavy fighting in northern Vietnam, where the Vietminh were at their strongest, and many people had been forced to abandon their ...
March 1954 events in the United States (1 C, 4 P) April 1954 events in the United States (1 C, 2 P) May 1954 events in the United States (1 C, 2 P)