March 1954
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The following events occurred in March 1954:
March 1, 1954 (Monday)[edit]
- U.S. officials announced that a hydrogen bomb nuclear test (Castle Bravo) had been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean as part of Operation Castle.
- U.S. Capitol shooting: Four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire in the United States House of Representatives chamber and wounded five; they were apprehended by security guards.
- Born:
- Catherine Bach, American actress
- Ron Howard, American film director, producer and actor
March 2, 1954 (Tuesday)[edit]
- Born: Hunt Sales, musician
March 3, 1954 (Wednesday)[edit]
- Born:
- Keith Fergus, American professional golfer
- Robert Gossett, American actor
- John Lilley, American musician
March 4, 1954 (Thursday)[edit]
- Born:
- François Fillon, Prime Minister of France (2007-2012)
- Ricky Ford, American jazz musician
- Peter Jacobsen, American professional golfer
- Boris Moiseev, Russian singer (d. 2022)
- Ray Troll, American artist
- Anne Van Lancker, Belgian politician
March 5, 1954 (Friday)[edit]
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March 6, 1954 (Saturday)[edit]
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March 7, 1954 (Sunday)[edit]
- Born:
- Mike Armstrong (baseball), American baseball player
- Will Grant, American football player
- Nyls Nyman, American baseball player
- Carol M. Swain, American political scientist
- Jasmina Tešanović, Serbian author and political activist
- Died:
- Otto Diels, 78, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate[1]
- Will H. Hays, 74, namesake for the Hays Code
March 8, 1954 (Monday)[edit]
- Born:
- Cheryl Baker, British singer and television presenter
- Karl Schnabl, Austrian Olympic ski jumper
- David Wilkie, Scottish Olympic swimmer
- Died:
- Lawrence Townsend, 93, American diplomat
March 9, 1954 (Tuesday)[edit]
- American journalists Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly produced 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, 79, Swedish oceanographer
- Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, 41, German astronomer
March 10, 1954 (Wednesday)[edit]
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March 11, 1954 (Thursday)[edit]
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March 12, 1954 (Friday)[edit]
- Finland and Germany officially ended their state of war.
March 13, 1954 (Saturday)[edit]
- First Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu began, involving the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Việt Minh Communist fighters.[2]
- Died: César Klein, 77, German Expressionist painter[3]
March 14, 1954 (Sunday)[edit]
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March 15, 1954 (Monday)[edit]
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March 16, 1954 (Tuesday)[edit]
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March 17, 1954 (Wednesday)[edit]
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March 18, 1954 (Thursday)[edit]
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March 19, 1954 (Friday)[edit]
- Joey Giardello knocked out Willie Tory at Madison Square Garden, in the first televised boxing prize fight to be shown in color.
March 20, 1954 (Saturday)[edit]
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March 21, 1954 (Sunday)[edit]
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March 22, 1954 (Monday)[edit]
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March 23, 1954 (Tuesday)[edit]
- In Vietnam, the Viet Minh captured the main airstrip of Dien Bien Phu. The remaining French Army units there were partially isolated.
March 24, 1954 (Wednesday)[edit]
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March 25, 1954 (Thursday)[edit]
- The 26th Academy Awards ceremony was held.
- RCA manufactured the first color television set (12-inch screen; price: $1,000).
- The Soviet Union recognised the sovereignty of East Germany. Soviet troops remained in the country.
March 26, 1954 (Friday)[edit]
- Born: Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese voice actor
- Died: Louis Silvers, 64, American film composer
March 27, 1954 (Saturday)[edit]
- The Castle Romeo nuclear test explosion was executed.
March 28, 1954 (Sunday)[edit]
- Puerto Rico's first television station, WKAQ-TV, commenced broadcasting.
- The trial of A. L. Zissu and 12 other Zionist leaders ended with harsh sentences in Communist Romania.
- The British troopship HMT Empire Windrush suffered an engine-room explosion and fire. Four crew were killed but 1494 crew and passengers were saved. The abandoned ship sank two days later.
- Egyptian protests in The Republic of Egypt against democracy.
- Born:
- Bill Bourne, Canadian musician (d. 2022)
- Arthur Frederick Goode III, American murderer (d. 1984)
March 29, 1954 (Monday)[edit]
- A C-47 transport with French nurse Geneviève de Galard on board was wrecked on the runway at Dien Bien Phu.
- Born: Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)
March 30, 1954 (Tuesday)[edit]
- Toronto subway: The first operational subway line in Canada.
- Died: Horatio Dresser, 88, American writer
March 31, 1954 (Wednesday)[edit]
- Born: Tony Brock, British musician
References[edit]
- ^ "Otto Diels – Facts". NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB. 2023. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
- ^ History Study Board of The General Staff (1991). History of the General Staff in the Resistance War against the French 1945–1954 (in Vietnamese). Ha Noi: People's Army Publishing House. p. 799.
- ^ Sotriffer, Kristian (1972). Expressionism and Fauvism. McGraw-Hill. p. 133. ISBN 9780070597648 – via Google Books.