April 1954

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The following events occurred in April 1954:

April 1, 1954 (Thursday)

  • The U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorize the founding of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
  • South Point School (India) is founded and becomes the largest school in the world by 1992.
  • The new Cardiff Airport in Rhoose opens to the public after operations were transferred from RAF Pengam Moors

April 3, 1954 (Saturday)

  • Vladimir Petrov defects from the Soviet Union and asks for political asylum in Australia.

April 4, 1954 (Sunday)

  • The legendary symphony conductor Arturo Toscanini experiences a lapse of memory during a concert. At this concert's end, his retirement is announced, and Toscanini never conducts in public again.

April 7, 1954 (Wednesday)

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.

April 8, 1954 (Thursday)

  • A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Air Lines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
  • Born:Gary Carter, American baseball player (d. 2012)
  • Died:Fritzi Scheff, actress & singer (b. 1879)

April 9, 1954 (Friday)

April 10, 1954 (Saturday)

April 11, 1954 (Sunday)

  • This day is denoted as the "most boring day" in the 20th century by True Knowledge, an answer engine developed by William Tunstall-Pedoe. No significant newsworthy events, births, or deaths are known to have happened on this day.[2]

April 12, 1954 (Monday)

April 13, 1954 (Tuesday)

April 14, 1954 (Wednesday)

  • Aneurin Bevan resigns from the British Labour Party's "Shadow Cabinet".
  • A Soviet spy ring in Australia is unveiled.

April 16, 1954 (Friday)

  • Vice President Richard Nixon announces that the United States may be “putting our own boys in Indochina regardless of Allied support”

April 17, 1954 (Saturday)

April 18, 1954 (Sunday)

  • Famous people born on this day include Kim Stone and Sylvie Abraham.[3]

April 19, 1954 (Monday)

This was the day that Evdokia Petrov was mauled onto a Syney plane by violent KGB officers in order to take her back to Russia to her "death sentence".

April 20, 1954 (Tuesday)

Born: Tom Furgas (American composer/artist/poet) Youngstown, Ohio

April 22, 1954 (Thursday)

  • Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the United States Army for being "soft" on Communism.

April 25, 1954 (Sunday)

Born: Jyotindra Mody, India's first textile engineer.

April 26, 1954 (Monday)

  • An international conference on Korea and Indo-China opens in Geneva.
  • Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai is released in Japan.

April 28, 1954 (Wednesday)

  • U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles accuses Communist China of sending combat troops to Indo-China to train the Viet Minh guerrillas
  • Died:Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)

April 29, 1954 (Thursday)

References

  1. ↑ "France Warns Red China Aid to Indo Rebels Must Cease: Dulles Off Today for Parleys". The Washington Post. April 10, 1954. p. A1.
  2. ↑ Daily Telegraph (November 25, 2010). "The Most Boring Day in History – April 11, 1954". Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  3. ↑ http://takemeback.to/18-April-1954#.WVsOHOmQwuU
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