The Year 1954
Histroy and Politics
Britian, France, US and USSR foreign ministers meet in Berlin; Russians reject the idea of German reunification.
Col Nasser seizes power in Egypt; becomes premier and head of state.
St Lawrence Seaway project approved by Eisenhower.
US-Japanese defense agreement.
Malenkov becomes Premier of USSR.
Dien Phu taken by Vietnamese Communists; Indochina armistice signed in Geneva; Communists occupy Hanoi.
US Supreme Court rules that segregation by color in thh public schools
is a violation of the 14th Ammendment to the Contstitution.
Eisenhower and Churchill meet in Washington and sign Potomac Charter.
Theodor Heuss elected president of W. Germany.
Southeatern Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) established.
US and Canada agree to build radar warning stations across northern Canada "Dew"
line, to give warning of approaching aircraft or missiles over the Arctic.
France and W. Germany sign cultural and economic agreement.
Burma and Japan sign treaty.
US signs pact with Nationalist China.
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy continues to prove the infiltration of Communists into th US Army; his formal censure and condemnation by Senate resolution follows.
Science, Technology, Growth
US atomic physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer is dismissed from
government service, his security clearance withdrawn.
US tests hydrogen bomb at Bikini.
USSR Central Observatory opened.
Concern in Europe and America about fallout and disposal of radioactive waste.
Known chemical elements at the time of birth of Christ; 9; around 1500, 12; around 1900, 84; in 1954, 100.
US submarine "Nautilus" converted to nuclear power; USS "Forrestal," 59,650
ton aircraft carrier, launched at Newport News, Va.
Dr. Jonas E. Salk, US developer of antipolio serum, starts innoculating schoolchildren in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology: J F Enders, T H Weiler,
& F Robbins (all US) for their work on polio virus.
Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Linus Pauling (US) for study of molecular forces.
Daily Life
1.768 US newspapers publish 59 million copies daily.
Independent Television Authority established in Britian.
Eurovision network formed.
29 million US homes have TV.
Temple of Mithras excavated in teh City of London.
Roger Bannister runs a mile in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds.
Gordon Richards becomes the first jockey to be knighted.
The US contains 6% of the world's population but has 60% of all cars, 58% of
all telephones, 45% of all radio sets, and 34% of all railroads.
Desert locust plague in Morocco; within 6 weeks citrus crops valued at approx. $14 million destroyed.
US Lawn tennis Singles won by Vic Seixas, women's won by Doris Hart.
US Golf Assc. won by Arnold Palmer, Ed Furgol wins open.
Philidelphia Athletics baseball club moves to Kansas City.
Michigan State defeats UCLA in Rose Bowl, 28-20.
New York (NL)defeats Cleveland (AL) in World Series, 4-0.
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