Date: February 15, 1954
Beginning of the Kengir uprising in the Gulag. Date: May 16, 1954 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 16 📅 Events on this day in 1954 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1954Eisenhower Delivers Domino Theory Speech at News Conference, April 7, 1954Canada and U.S. Agree to Build DEW…
Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives. Date: March 1, 1954 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 1 📅 Events on this day in 1954 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1954National Negro Network Established with 40 Radio Stations, January 20, 1954First Mass…
Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM. Date: January 7, 1954 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 7 📅 Events on this day in 1954 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1954Eisenhower Delivers Domino…
The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States. Date: January 21, 1954 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 21 📅 Events on this day in 1954 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1954First Mass Polio Inoculation…
Joseph N. Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, 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?" Date: June 9, 1954 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅…
Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States. Date: March 1, 1954 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 1 📅 Events on this day in 1954 📅 On…