Historical Events In 1954
May 17 Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
May 18 European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect
May 07 US, Great-Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO
May 24 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
May 22 Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed
May 24 The first rocket attains 150 mile (241 km) altitude, White Sands NM
May 06 Roger Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile (3 59 4)
May 13 Labour Party wins British municipal elections
May 24 German airline Lufthansa forms
May 04 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
May 01 HSA-UWC Established (Unification Church) (The Moonies)
May 29 Kirk & Anne Douglas married
May 13 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
May 20 Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China
May 10 Bolshoi-ballet does not appear in Paris France
May 21 Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
May 07 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu
May 19 Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project
May 24 Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes first black to head an AMA unit
May 14 Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months
May 05 Military coup by General Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay
May 03 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh &John Patrick
May 30 Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
May 06 Roger Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4)
Jan 12 Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hours later 2nd one-kills 115
Jan 13 Military rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested
Jan 09 Bert Olmstead, Montreal Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game
Jan 23 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
Jan 16 "South Pacific" closes at Majestic Theater New York City NY after 1928 performances
Jan 17 Jacques Cousteau's first network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS)
Jan 02 Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny," premieres in New York City NY
Jan 21 The first gas turbine automobile exhibited (New York City NY)
Jan 02 Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny," premieres in New York City NY
Jan 04 Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premieres
Jan 01 Yugoslav parliament chairman/Vice President Milovan Djilas criticize communism
