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April 1954

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The following events occurred in April 1954:

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April 1, 1954 (Thursday)

  • The U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorize the founding of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
  • South Point School (India) is founded and becomes the largest school in the world by 1992.

    • April 3, 1954 (Saturday)

  • Vladimir Petrov defects from the Soviet Union and asks for political asylum in Australia.

    • April 4, 1954 (Sunday)

  • The legendary symphony conductor Arturo Toscanini experiences a lapse of memory during a concert. At this concert's end, his retirement is announced, and Toscanini never conducts in public again.

    • April 7, 1954 (Wednesday)

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.

    • April 8, 1954 (Thursday)

  • A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Air Lines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
  • Born:Gary Carter, American baseball player (d. 2012)
  • Died:Fritzi Scheff, actress & singer (b. 1879)

    • April 9, 1954 (Friday)

  • French Premier Joseph Laniel warns that the People's Republic of China must stop sending aid to the Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries during the First Indochina War.

    • April 10, 1954 (Saturday)

  • Died:Auguste Lumière, French film pioneer (b. 1862)

    • April 11, 1954 (Sunday)

  • This day is denoted as the most boring day in the 20th century by True Knowledge, an answer engine developed by William Tunstall-Pedoe. No significant newsworthy events, births, or deaths are known to have happened on this day

    • April 12, 1954 (Monday)

  • Died:Luis Cabrera Lobato, Mexican lawyer, politician and writer (b. 1876)

    • April 13, 1954 (Tuesday)

  • Died:Angus L. Macdonald, Nova Scotia Premier (b. 1890)

    • April 14, 1954 (Wednesday)

  • Aneurin Bevan resigns from the British Labour Party's "Shadow Cabinet".
  • A Soviet spy ring in Australia is unveiled.

    • April 15, 1954 (Thursday)

  • Died:Ülo Altermann, Estonian soldier and forest brother (b. 1923)

    • April 16, 1954 (Friday)

  • Vice President Richard Nixon announces that the United States may be “putting our own boys in Indochina regardless of Allied support”

    • April 17, 1954 (Saturday)

  • Born:Roddy Piper, Canadian wrestler (d. 2015)
  • Died:Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (b. 1900)

    • April 22, 1954 (Thursday)

  • Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the United States Army for being "soft" on Communism.

    • April 26, 1954 (Monday)

  • An international conference on Korea and Indo-China opens in Geneva.
  • Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai is released in Japan.

    • April 28, 1954 (Wednesday)

  • U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles accuses Communist China of sending combat troops to Indo-China to train the Viet Minh guerrillas
  • Died:Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)

    • April 29, 1954 (Thursday)

  • Died:
  • Kathleen Clarice Groom, British writer (b. 1872)
  • Joe May, Austrian-born director (b. 1880)

    • References

    April 1954 Wikipedia
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