WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO OCTOBER 1954
Find out what all happened March to October 1954

In Christchurch (New Zealand) Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme murder Pauline's mother because they think she is in the way of their close friendship (movie Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson in 1994). See Parker–Hulme murder case. (22. June 1954)

The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed. (24. August 1954)

McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly. (9. 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)

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

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

Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172. (26. September 1954)

First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam. (21. July 1954)

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

Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts. (10. May 1954)

Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens. (22. March 1954)

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

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

Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio. (18. October 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)

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

Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths. (11. September 1954)

Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today. (19. March 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)

Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam. (24. October 1954)