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.
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)
- French Premier Joseph Laniel warns that the People's Republic of China must stop sending aid to the Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries during the First Indochina War.[1]
April 10, 1954 (Saturday)
- Died:Auguste Lumière, French film pioneer (b. 1862)
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)
- Died:Luis Cabrera Lobato, Mexican lawyer, politician and writer (b. 1876)
April 13, 1954 (Tuesday)
- Died:Angus L. Macdonald, Nova Scotia Premier (b. 1890)
April 14, 1954 (Wednesday)
- Aneurin Bevan resigns from the British Labour Party's "Shadow Cabinet".
- A Soviet spy ring in Australia is unveiled.
April 15, 1954 (Thursday)
- Died:Ülo Altermann, Estonian soldier and forest brother (b. 1923)
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)
- Born:Roddy Piper, Canadian wrestler (d. 2015)
- Died:Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (b. 1900)
April 22, 1954 (Thursday)
- Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the United States Army for being "soft" on Communism.
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)
- Died:
- Kathleen Clarice Groom, British writer (b. 1872)
- Joe May, Austrian-born director (b. 1880)
References
- ↑ "France Warns Red China Aid to Indo Rebels Must Cease: Dulles Off Today for Parleys". The Washington Post. April 10, 1954. p. A1.
- ↑ Daily Telegraph (November 25, 2010). "The Most Boring Day in History – April 11, 1954". Retrieved July 19, 2014.
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