Historical Events In 1954
Mar 11 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
Mar 15 "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite and Jack Paar
Mar 19 First color telecast of a prize fight, Giardello vs Troy in Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Mar 19 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright
Mar 07 US, Great-Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO
Mar 20 Newspaper vending machine first used (Columbia Pennsylvania)
Mar 25 26th Academy Awards: "From Here to Eternity", William Holden & Audrey Hepburn win
Mar 25 26th Academy Awards "From Here to Eternity", William Holden & Audrey Hepburn win
Mar 01 Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die
Mar 26 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
Mar 01 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in first game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War
Mar 09 WNBT-TV (now WNBC-TV), New York, broadcast the first local color television commercials
Mar 31 US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs CO, established
Mar 01 The birth of Ron Howard, American director
Mar 30 Toronto Transit Commission opens the first part of the Toronto subway, the first subway in Canada.
Mar 31 USSR offers to join NATO
Mar 29 Carrier aircraft began reconnaissance near Dien Bien Phu, Indochina
Mar 01 US explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
Mar 09 This was the day that critics called"TV’s coming of age." Edward R. Murrow presented his report on Joseph R. McCarthy, the controversial Wisconsin Senator, .
Mar 01 First American hydrogen bomb test on the island of Bikini
Mar 20 "King &I" closes at St James Theater NYC after 1246 performances
Mar 19 Weekes, Worrell &Walcott complete tons in innings vs England
Mar 19 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
Mar 01 Ron Howard Emmy Award-winning producer was born
Mar 29 A 7.0 earthquake near the south of Spain. This earthquake caused property damage at Malaga, and was 640 km deep
