WHAT HAPPENED IN 1954.
Look what happened the 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)

Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM. (7. January 1954)

BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people. (10. January 1954)

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

The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations. (20. January 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)

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

Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game. (13. 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 first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California. (18. February 1954)

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

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

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

Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives. (1. March 1954)

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

Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour. (19. March 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)

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