U.S. officials announce that a hydrogen bomb test (Castle Bravo) has been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
U.S. Capitol shooting incident: Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire in the United States House of Representatives chamber and wound five; they are apprehended by security guards.
==March 3, 1954 (Wednesday)== Steve McRory was born - He later became a firm fixture of Bungay society, also a founding member of the Chequers Golf society with Charlie Parker
Died:
Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
Will H. Hays, Namesake for the Hays Code (b. 1879)
American journalists Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly produce a 30-minute See It Now documentary, entitled A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Born:Bobby Sands, Irish republican hunger striker (d. 1981)
Died:Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874)
Finland and Germany officially end their state of war.
French troops begin the battle against the Viet Minh in Dien Bien Phu.
Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory at Madison Square Garden, in the first televised boxing prize fight to be shown in color.
In Vietnam, the Viet Minh capture the main airstrip of Dien Bien Phu. The remaining French Army units there are partially isolated.
The 26th Academy Awards ceremony is held.
RCA manufactures the first color television set (12-inch screen; price: $1,000)
The Soviet Union recognises the sovereignty of East Germany. Soviet troops remain in the country.
Died:Louis Silvers, American film composer (b. 1889)
The Castle Romeo nuclear test explosion is executed.
Puerto Rico's first television station, WKAQ-TV, commences broadcasting.
Trial of A. L. Zissu and 12 other Zionist leaders ends with harsh sentences in Communist Romania.
A C-47 transport with French nurse Geneviève de Galard on board is wrecked on the runway at Dien Bien Phu.
Born:Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)
The first operational subway line in Canada opens in Toronto.
Died:Horatio Dresser, American writer (b. 1866)
