WHAT HAPPENED IN 1954.
Look what happened the 1954.

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

President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. (1. April 1954)

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

South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people. (8. April 1954)

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

The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan. (19. April 1954)

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

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

Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes. (6. May 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)

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)

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

The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography. (13. May 1954)

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

First of the annual Bilderberg conferences. (29. 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)

Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest non-martyr saint in the Roman Catholic Church. (12. June 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)

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