WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1954
Find out what all happened January to June 1954

First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass – PAVN troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambushes G.M. 100 of France in An Khê. (24. June 1954)

UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland. (15. June 1954)

Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt. (18. April 1954)

The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh. (23. February 1954)

Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game. (13. February 1954)

President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam. (10. February 1954)

Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska. (15. February 1954)

The Yonge Street subway line opens in Toronto. It is the first subway in Canada. (30. March 1954)

The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States. (21. January 1954)

Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France. (18. June 1954)

Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Vietnamese victory (the battle began on March 13). (7. May 1954)

NBC makes the first coast-to-coast NTSC color broadcast when it telecast the Tournament of Roses Parade, with public demonstrations given across the United States on prototype color receivers. (1. January 1954)

First of the annual Bilderberg conferences. (29. May 1954)

The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation. (14. January 1954)

The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place. (13. May 1954)

The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow. (27. June 1954)

The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public. (28. February 1954)

A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people. (8. April 1954)

The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game. (27. June 1954)

First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces under Vo Nguyen Giap unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the French to begin the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War. (13. March 1954)