Early computer scientist Alan Turing commits suicide.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, saying, "Have you, at long last, no decency?"The words "under God" are added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.The UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.Mark Roy Jablonka was born at 08:30am. Parents: Harold Carl Jablonka and Anita Irene Oldenberg. Siblings: Paul, Pamela, Tomas, Laura and Matthew born in 1958.
start of the 1954 FIFA World Cup held in SwitzerlandA CIA-engineered military coup occurs in Guatemala. Democratically elected President of Guatemala Jacobo Árbenz was ousted and the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas took power.Pierre Mendès France becomes prime minister of France.Sarah Mae Flemming is expelled from a bus in South Carolina for sitting in a white-only section.Parker–Hulme murder case: 16-year old Pauline Parker and her friend 15-year-old Juliet Hulme bludgeon Parker's mother to death using a brick at Victoria Park in New Zealand.Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz steps down in a CIA-sponsored military coup, triggering a bloody civil war that continues for more than 35 years.Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the world's first atomic power station opens at Obninsk, near Moscow.A by-poll was held in Guinea for a seat in the National Assembly of France. 