From top to bottom, left to right: A thermonuclear test, code named
Castle Romeo; The first mass vaccination of children against
polio begins in
Pittsburgh, United States; Surface weather map of
Hurricane Hazel near landfall in North Carolina; U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower with U.S. Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles, the advocate of the
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état; Soldiers of the National Liberation Army during the
Algerian War of Independence.; Final of the
1954 FIFA World Cup; Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet "About the transfer of the Crimean Oblast", Supreme Council Herald; Damage from the
1954 Blons avalanches
April 4 – Legendary symphony conductor
Arturo Toscanini experiences a lapse of memory during a concert broadcast live from Carnegie Hall in New York City. At this concert's end, his retirement is announced, and he never conducts in public again.
This day is denoted as the most boring day in the 20th century by
True Knowledge, an
answer engine developed by William Tunstall-Pedoe. No significant newsworthy events, births, or deaths are known to have happened on this day.[7]
May 11 – U.S. Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles declares that Indochina is important but not essential to the security of Southeast Asia, thus ending any prospect of American intervention on the side of France.
May 15 – The
Latin Union (Unión Latina) is created by the Convention of
Madrid. Its member countries use the five
Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. It suspended operations in
2012.
Food rationing in Great Britain ends, with the lifting of restrictions on sale and purchase of meat, 14 years after it began early in
World War II, and nearly a decade after the war's end.
July 21 –
First Indochina War: The
Geneva Conference sends French forces to the south, and Vietnamese forces to the north, of a ceasefire line, and calls for elections to decide the government for all of
Vietnam by July 1956. Failure to abide by the terms of the agreement leads to the establishment of the de facto regimes of
North Vietnam and
South Vietnam, and the
Vietnam War.
August 24 – Brazilian president
Getúlio Vargas commits suicide, after being accused of involvement in a conspiracy to murder his chief political opponent,
Carlos Lacerda.
Paris Agreement sets up the
Western European Union to implement the
Treaty of Brussels (1948), providing for mutual self-defence and other collaboration between Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
November 30 – In
Sylacauga, Alabama, a four-kilogram piece of the
Hodges Meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and badly bruises a napping woman, in the first documented case of an object from
outer space hitting a person.
^Willbanks, James H. (2013). Vietnam War Almanac: an In-Depth Guide to the Most Controversial Conflict in American History. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN9781626365285.
OCLC855969323.
^Logevall, Fredrik (2012). Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam. Random House.
ISBN978-0-679-64519-1.
^Jakobson, Max (1978). Paasikivi Tukholmassa: J. K. Paasikiven toiminta Suomen lähettiläänä Tukholmassa 1936–39 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Otava. pp. 155–156.
ISBN951-1-05126-1.
^"Armstrong, FM Inventor, Dies In Leap From East Side Suite". The New York Times. February 2, 1954. p. 1.
ISSN0362-4331. Maj. Edwin H. Armstrong, whose inventions provided much of the basis for modern broadcasting, was found dead yesterday morning on a third-floor balcony of River House, 435 East Fifty-second Street. The 63-year-old electrical engineer had plunged from a window of his luxurious thirteenth-floor apartment, apparently late Sunday evening or during the night.
^Lengermann, Patricia M.; Niebrugge-Brantley, Jill (1998). "Marianne Weber (1870- 1954): A Woman-Centered Sociology". The Women Founders: Sociology and Social Theory, 1830-1930 : a Text/reader. Boston: McGraw-Hill. p. 194.
ISBN978-1-57766-509-0.
^Portuges, Catherine; Jouve, Nicole Ward (1994). "Colette". In Sartori, Eva Martin; Zimmerman, Dorothy Wynne (eds.). French Women Writers. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 80–81.
ISBN0803292244.
From top to bottom, left to right: A thermonuclear test, code named
Castle Romeo; The first mass vaccination of children against
polio begins in
Pittsburgh, United States; Surface weather map of
Hurricane Hazel near landfall in North Carolina; U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower with U.S. Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles, the advocate of the
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état; Soldiers of the National Liberation Army during the
Algerian War of Independence.; Final of the
1954 FIFA World Cup; Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet "About the transfer of the Crimean Oblast", Supreme Council Herald; Damage from the
1954 Blons avalanches
April 4 – Legendary symphony conductor
Arturo Toscanini experiences a lapse of memory during a concert broadcast live from Carnegie Hall in New York City. At this concert's end, his retirement is announced, and he never conducts in public again.
This day is denoted as the most boring day in the 20th century by
True Knowledge, an
answer engine developed by William Tunstall-Pedoe. No significant newsworthy events, births, or deaths are known to have happened on this day.[7]
May 11 – U.S. Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles declares that Indochina is important but not essential to the security of Southeast Asia, thus ending any prospect of American intervention on the side of France.
May 15 – The
Latin Union (Unión Latina) is created by the Convention of
Madrid. Its member countries use the five
Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. It suspended operations in
2012.
Food rationing in Great Britain ends, with the lifting of restrictions on sale and purchase of meat, 14 years after it began early in
World War II, and nearly a decade after the war's end.
July 21 –
First Indochina War: The
Geneva Conference sends French forces to the south, and Vietnamese forces to the north, of a ceasefire line, and calls for elections to decide the government for all of
Vietnam by July 1956. Failure to abide by the terms of the agreement leads to the establishment of the de facto regimes of
North Vietnam and
South Vietnam, and the
Vietnam War.
August 24 – Brazilian president
Getúlio Vargas commits suicide, after being accused of involvement in a conspiracy to murder his chief political opponent,
Carlos Lacerda.
Paris Agreement sets up the
Western European Union to implement the
Treaty of Brussels (1948), providing for mutual self-defence and other collaboration between Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
November 30 – In
Sylacauga, Alabama, a four-kilogram piece of the
Hodges Meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and badly bruises a napping woman, in the first documented case of an object from
outer space hitting a person.
^Willbanks, James H. (2013). Vietnam War Almanac: an In-Depth Guide to the Most Controversial Conflict in American History. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN9781626365285.
OCLC855969323.
^Logevall, Fredrik (2012). Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam. Random House.
ISBN978-0-679-64519-1.
^Jakobson, Max (1978). Paasikivi Tukholmassa: J. K. Paasikiven toiminta Suomen lähettiläänä Tukholmassa 1936–39 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Otava. pp. 155–156.
ISBN951-1-05126-1.
^"Armstrong, FM Inventor, Dies In Leap From East Side Suite". The New York Times. February 2, 1954. p. 1.
ISSN0362-4331. Maj. Edwin H. Armstrong, whose inventions provided much of the basis for modern broadcasting, was found dead yesterday morning on a third-floor balcony of River House, 435 East Fifty-second Street. The 63-year-old electrical engineer had plunged from a window of his luxurious thirteenth-floor apartment, apparently late Sunday evening or during the night.
^Lengermann, Patricia M.; Niebrugge-Brantley, Jill (1998). "Marianne Weber (1870- 1954): A Woman-Centered Sociology". The Women Founders: Sociology and Social Theory, 1830-1930 : a Text/reader. Boston: McGraw-Hill. p. 194.
ISBN978-1-57766-509-0.
^Portuges, Catherine; Jouve, Nicole Ward (1994). "Colette". In Sartori, Eva Martin; Zimmerman, Dorothy Wynne (eds.). French Women Writers. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 80–81.
ISBN0803292244.