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1954
French parachutists at the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ
French parachutists at the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ
President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution Otto John at his press conference in East Berlin
Press conference by Otto John , President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution , in East Berlin
Location of the Suez Canal
Suez Canal : Egypt and Great Britain sign the Suez Agreement
1954 in other calendars
From urbe condita 2707
Armenian calendar 1402-1403
Ethiopian calendar 1946-1947
Badi calendar 110-111
Bengali calendar 1360-1361
Berber calendar 2904
Buddhist calendar 2498
Burmese calendar 1316
Byzantine calendar 7462-7463
Chinese calendar
 - era 4650-4651 or
4590-4591
 - 60 year cycle

Water snake ( 癸巳 , 30) -
wood horse ( 甲午 , 31)

French
revolutionary calendar
CLXII - CLXIII
162-163
Hebrew calendar 5714-5715
Hindu calendar
 - Vikram Sambat 2010-2011
 - Shaka Samvat 1876-1877
Iranian calendar 1332-1333
Islamic calendar 1373-1374
Japanese calendar
 - Nengō (era): Shōwa 29
 - Kōki 2614
Coptic calendar 1670-1671
Korean calendar
 - Dangun era 4287
 - Juche era 43
Minguo calendar 43
Modern Olympics XV
Seleucid calendar 2265-2266
Thai solar calendar 2497

In 1954 the Indochina War ended with the defeat of France in the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ . With the Algerian War, another colonial war of liberation against France began.

In Germany, the President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Otto John, caused a scandal with his disappearance in the GDR.

In the United States, the McCarthy era culminated with the Communist Control Act of 1954 .

According to calculations made by British scientists at Cambridge University in 2010, April 11, 1954 was said to have been the most meaningless day of the 20th century .

Events

politics

economy

science and technology

Founding countries of CERN (blue)

Culture

religion

Sports

oldest standardized mini golf course, opened in 1954

For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .

Disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

Trivia

  • April 11th : According to the British programmer William Tunstall-Pedoe, April 11th, 1954 was "the boring day of the 20th century" because the fewest significant events would have taken place on this date [1]

Born

January

Katey Sagal , 2012

February

Matt Groening, 2010

March

April

May

June

Kathleen Turner

July

Neil Tennant , 2006
Hugo Chavez, 2008

August

September

Shinzo Abe

October

November

Marta Andreasen (2014)

December

Jean-Claude Juncker, 2012
Annie Lennox , (2004)

Day unknown

Died

January

February

Senda Berenson Abbott

March

Otto Diels
Clara Westhoff
Gertrud Bäumer

April

Auguste Lumière

May

June

July

August

Colette

September

Miles Franklin

October

November

December

Exact date of death unknown

Nobel Prizes

Web links

Commons : 1954  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. The dreary day of the century Futurezone from November 26, 2010.
  2. chronik.net daily entry for November 8, 1954
    Federal Foreign Office: Ethiopia - Relations with Germany