53 events found for 1954
The Moomin comics, created by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson, is published internationally in the London newspaper The…
AEC Routemaster, the iconic London bus was introduced.
The Cochabamba–Santa Cruz highway connecting western and eastern Bolivia is inaugurated.
The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces,…
In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.
Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north…
Texas Instruments announces the Regency TR-1, the first mass-produced transistor radio.
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam.
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
Aeroflot Flight 136 crashes near Krasnoyarsk, killing 19.