1954

?ies]]: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

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Births

• February 11 - [Catherine Hickland]?, actress - an alternative source gives 1956.

Deaths

Events

• May 7 -- Construction started on Michigan's Mackinac Bridge.
• May 17 -- US [Supreme Court]? hands down decision in [Brown v. Board of Education]?
• May 20: Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of [Nationalist China]?
• West Germany wins Football World Cup in Switzerland
• First flight of a B-52 Stratofortress

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Max Born]?, - [Walther Bothe]?
• Chemistry - [Linus Carl Pauling]?
• Medicine - [John Franklin Enders]?, [Thomas Huckle Weller]?, [Frederick Chapman Robbins]?
• Literature - Ernest Miller Hemingway
• Peace - The Office of the United Nations [High Commissioner For Refugees]?.