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1954 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.
U.S. Capitol shooting incident: Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire in the United States House of Representatives chamber and wound five people; they are apprehended by security guards. March 9 – Journalists Edward Murrow and Fred W. Friendly produce a 30-minute See It Now documentary, entitled A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy .
[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. 24 April – Wolverhampton Wanderers win the Football League First Division title for the first time in their history. [7]
April 5 - Claude-André Lachance, politician and son of Georges-C. Lachance; April 7 – Clark Gillies, ice hockey player (d. 2022) April 17 – Roddy Piper, wrestler and actor (d. 2015) April 20 – Gilles Lupien, ice hockey player and agent (d. 2021) May 4 – Sylvia Burka, ice speed skater and World Champion, cyclist
1954 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high of 382.74, the first time the Dow has surpassed its peak level reached just before the Wall Street Crash of 1929; 1954 – NBC airs The Tonight Show, the first late-night talk show, originally hosted by Steve Allen; 1954 – The Democrats retake both houses of Congress in the ...
1954 in the United States by state or territory (51 C) 1954 events in the United States by month (12 C) 1954 disestablishments in the United States (42 C, 15 P)
The 1954 New Orleans Women's Open golf tournament, part of the LPGA Tour, concluded. Marlene Bauer won the tournament, with Betty Jameson coming in second. [28] 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 ...
1 March - Adelaide and large parts of southern South Australia are shaken by a 5.6 magnitude earthquake, resulting in the injuries of 16 people, and a damage bill of £17 million (2017: $578 million). 3 April – Vladimir Petrov, a Soviet diplomat, defects to Australia, sparking the Petrov Affair; Shirley Bliss wins the Miss Australia Quest