March 1954
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The following events occurred in March 1954:
March 1, 1954 (Monday)[]
- U.S. officials announce that a hydrogen bomb Nuclear Test (Castle Bravo) as part of Operation Castle has been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
- U.S. Capitol shooting: Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire in the United States House of Representatives chamber and wound five; they are apprehended by security guards.
- Born:
- Catherine Bach, American actress
- Ron Howard, American film director, producer and actor
March 2, 1954 (Tuesday)[]
- Born: Hunt Sales, musician
March 3, 1954 (Wednesday)[]
- Born:
- Keith Fergus, American professional golfer
- Robert Gossett, American actor
- John Lilley, American musician
March 4, 1954 (Thursday)[]
- Born:
- François Fillon, Prime Minister of France (2007-2012)
- Ricky Ford, American jazz musician
- Peter Jacobsen, American professional golfer
- Boris Moiseev, Russian singer
- Ray Troll, American artist
- Anne Van Lancker, Belgian politician
March 5, 1954 (Friday)[]
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March 6, 1954 (Saturday)[]
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March 7, 1954 (Sunday)[]
- 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, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
- Will H. Hays, Namesake for the Hays Code (b. 1879)a
March 8, 1954 (Monday)[]
- Born:
- Cheryl Baker, British singer and television presenter
- Karl Schnabl, Austrian Olympic ski jumper
- David Wilkie (swimmer). Scottish Olympic swimmer
- Died:
- Lawrence Townsend, American diplomat (b. 1860)
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)
- Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (b.1912)
March 10, 1954 (Wednesday)[]
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March 11, 1954 (Thursday)[]
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March 12, 1954 (Friday)[]
- Finland and Germany officially end their state of war.
March 13, 1954 (Saturday)[]
- First Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu begins, involving the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Việt Minh Communist fighters.[1]
- Died: César Klein, 77, German Expressionist painter[2]
March 14, 1954 (Sunday)[]
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March 15, 1954 (Monday)[]
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March 16, 1954 (Tuesday)[]
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March 17, 1954 (Wednesday)[]
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March 18, 1954 (Thursday)[]
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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 20, 1954 (Saturday)[]
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March 21, 1954 (Sunday)[]
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March 22, 1954 (Monday)[]
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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 24, 1954 (Wednesday)[]
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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)[]
- Born: Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese voice actor.
- 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.
- The British troopship HMT Empire Windrush suffers an engine-room explosion and fire. Four crew are killed but 1494 crew and passengers are saved. The abandoned ship sinks two days later.
- Born:
- Bill Bourne, Canadian musician
- Arthur Frederick Goode III, American murderer (d.1984)
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)[]
- Toronto subway: the first operational subway line in Canada.
- Died:Horatio Dresser, American writer (b. 1866)
March 31, 1954 (Wednesday)[]
- Born: Tony Brock, British musician
References[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Kristian Sotriffer (1972). Expressionism and Fauvism. McGraw-Hill. p. 133. ISBN 9780070597648.
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