WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1954
Find out what all happened February to August 1954

The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin. (5. July 1954)

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

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

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance. (14. June 1954)

First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series. (15. July 1954)

Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time. (13. August 1954)

President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference. (7. April 1954)

The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. (17. May 1954)

McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" (9. June 1954)

Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right." (7. July 1954)

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

Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army-McCarthy Hearings begins. (22. April 1954)

Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States. (1. March 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)

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)

Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt. (25. February 1954)

First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. (23. August 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)

The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins. (26. April 1954)

Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay. (15. August 1954)