1954

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 - 1954 - 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

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Births

• April 17 - Riccardo Patrese, Italian racing driver

Deaths

• February 12 - Dziga Vertov, filmmaker
• July 29 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater
• November 29 - Enrico Fermi, physicist

Events

• May 7 -- Construction started on Michigan's Mackinac Bridge.
• May 17 -- US Supreme Court hands down decision in Brown v. Board of Education
• May 20: Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China
• First flight of a B-52 Stratofortress
• Battle of Dien Bien Phu between French and Viet Minh forces in Indochina

Sport

• West Germany wins Football World Cup in Switzerland
• British Empire & Commonwealth Games held in Vancouver, Canada

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Max Born, - Walther Bothe
• Chemistry - Linus Carl Pauling
• Medicine - John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins
• Literature - Ernest Miller Hemingway
• Peace - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees.