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March 1954

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The following events occurred in March 1954:

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March 1, 1954 (Monday)

  • 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 2, 1954 (Tuesday)

    ==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

    March 7, 1954 (Sunday)

  • Died:
  • Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
  • Will H. Hays, Namesake for the Hays Code (b. 1879)

    • March 9, 1954 (Tuesday)

  • 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)

    • March 12, 1954 (Friday)

  • Finland and Germany officially end their state of war.

    • March 13, 1954 (Saturday)

  • French troops begin the battle against the Viet Minh in Dien Bien Phu.

    • March 19, 1954 (Friday)

  • Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory at Madison Square Garden, in the first televised boxing prize fight to be shown in color.

    • March 23, 1954 (Tuesday)

  • In Vietnam, the Viet Minh capture the main airstrip of Dien Bien Phu. The remaining French Army units there are partially isolated.

    • March 25, 1954 (Thursday)

  • 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.

    • March 26, 1954 (Friday)

  • Died:Louis Silvers, American film composer (b. 1889)

    • March 27, 1954 (Saturday)

  • The Castle Romeo nuclear test explosion is executed.

    • March 28, 1954 (Sunday)

  • 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.

    • March 29, 1954 (Monday)

  • 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)

    • March 30, 1954 (Tuesday)

  • The first operational subway line in Canada opens in Toronto.
  • Died:Horatio Dresser, American writer (b. 1866)

    • References

    March 1954 Wikipedia
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