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April 11, 1954: Piero Scotti after victory at the 1954 Coppa della Toscana. Italian driver Piero Scotti won the 1954 Coppa della Toscana sports car race in a Ferrari 375 MM. [25] In a general election in Belgium, the Christian Social Party won 95 of the 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives, and 49 of the 106 seats in the Senate. [26]
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.
Michael's body was not found until April 12, which was ten days after his disappearance. The boy was spotted near 4th Street in Manhattan Beach. [10] [5] On April 12, 1954, a woman spotted the boy's body bobbing on the surf near her home. Her home was more than 1 mi (1.6 km) away from where the boy had gone missing; she pulled the body from the ...
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 mass panic. [1] It was characterized by widespread observation of previously unnoticed windshield holes, pits and dings, leading residents to believe that a common ...
3 April – Vladimir Petrov, a Soviet diplomat, defects to Australia, sparking the Petrov Affair Shirley Bliss wins the Miss Australia Quest On 31 October, the first Vickers Viscount aircraft delivered to Australia crashed at Mangalore Airport while on a training flight only days after its arrival in Australia, killing 3 of the 7 people on board.
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2 April – BBC Television broadcasts the first episode of The Grove Family, the first British TV soap opera. [5] 3 April – Oxford wins the 100th Boat Race. [6] 14 April – Aneurin Bevan resigns from the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet in protest over his party's failure to oppose the rearmament of West Germany.