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The Nation 1954
Puerto Ricans open fire in U.S. House of Representatives injuring 5 representatives
U.S. Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during Senate-Army hearings
Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends
U.S. Senate admonishes Joseph Mccarthy because of slander campaign
U.S. Senate censures Joe McCarthy, Senator-R-Wisconsin, for "conduct that tends to bring Senate into dishonor and disrepute"
President Eisenhower signs order adding words 'under God' to the Pledge of Allegiance
Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party
Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist
Dr. Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime)
Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
Integration begins in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland public schools
U.S. Armed Forces end segregation of races
1st White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Miss
Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system
Ellis Island, immigration station in New York Harbor, closed
Humane Society forms
1st meteorite known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala)
Nobel prizes 1954
Physics – Max Born, Walther Bothe
Chemistry – Linus Carl Pauling
Medicine – John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins
Literature – Ernest Hemingway
Peace – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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John Foster Dulles
"In an icy conference room in West Berlin one day last February, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov sang an old, sour song. After nine years of delay and diatribe, the Soviet Union still refused to sign a peace treaty ending the occupation of Austria. As Molotov droned on, a tall man slouched low in a chair, whittling on a pencil, calmly watching the shavings drop to the floor. When the Russian had finished, John Foster Dulles blew the dust from his pocketknife, snapped it shut and shoved it into his pocket. Then the U.S. Secretary of State leaned forward." John Foster Dulles Time Man of the year
The World 1954
Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election
France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria
The Class of 1954
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