1954

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1954 (MCMLIV) was an ordinary year of the Gregorian calendar, which began on Friday.

Events

January
January 21: The first US nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, is launched on water.

February
February 15: The Ismail Region of Ukrainian SSR was abolished and the component municipalities were included in Odessa Region.

March
1 March: In the area of the bikini atoll in the Pacific, the U.S. experimented with the hydrogen bomb.
March 25: Radio Corporation of America opens the first line of color TV assembly at its factory in Bloomington, Indiana. The company manufactured 5,000 television sets with a diagonal of 30 centimeters, which it sold at $1,000 apiece, an astronomical sum at the time.

May
May 1: The American Motors Company (AMC) was founded by the merger of two car companies: Nash- Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Corporation. Active until 9 March 1987 when it becomes a subsidiary of the car company Chrysler (FCA US LLC).
May 6: The British athlete, Roger Banister, became the first man in the world to run a mile (1,853,7936 meters) in less than four minutes.

June
June 6: At 3: 00 this is Craiova regional radio studio. We're transmitting on the 206-metre wavelength radio station. Dear listeners, hello. "The inaugural show of Radio Oltenia Craiova lasted an hour.
17 June: Romania ratified the UN Convention on Women's Political Rights on 20 December 1952.
June 27: The first nuclear power plant was inaugurated in Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia.

July
July 5: The first song by Elvis Presley, That's All Right, was released.

August
August 16: Start of Operation Passage to Freedom. American fleet units are evacuating to South Vietnam military in North Vietnam.

September
September 8: American Jonas Edward made his first polio vaccine. On 12 April 1955, the vaccine began to be marketed on the American market.
September 26: The Japanese ferry Toya Maru sank during the Marie typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait between the Japanese islands Hokkaido and Honshu. Over 1,000 people died.

Undated
September-October: Dr. Petru Groza, President of the Presidium of the Grand National Assembly of the Romanian People's Republic, accompanied by his daughter, Maria Groza, took a friendly visit to the People's Republic of China for almost a month.
France was the first country to adopt value added tax (VAT)

Arts, science, literature and philosophy
February 25: The premiere of the comedy The rabid Lamb of Aurel Baranga.
March 18: The weekly Literary Gazeta, organ of the Writers' Union of Romania, appeared in Bucharest.

Birth

January

1 January: Tanella Boni, Ivorian poet
January 1st: Mircea Mihaieș, Romanian writer and literary critic
January 2: Miron Gagauz, Moldovan politician
January 2: Glen Goins (Glen Lamont Goins),