1st January » NBC makes the first coast-to-coast NTSC Color television known as color broadcast when it telecast the Tournament of Roses Parade, with public demonstrations given across the United States on prototype color receivers.
7th January » Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
10th January » BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
14th January » The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
20th January » The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
21st January » The first nuclear marine propulsion nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus SSN-571 6, is Ship naming and launching launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
10th February » President of the United States called President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
13th February » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I (NCAA) or Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
15th February » Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
18th February » The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
23rd February » The first mass inoculation of children against Poliomyelitis or polio with the Jonas Salk named Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
25th February » Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
28th February » The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
1st March » Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-TNT equivalent e.g megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
1st March » Puerto Rican independence movement named Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, United States Capitol shooting incident (1954) e.g injuring five Representatives.
9th March » McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the 'See It Now' episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
13th March » First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces under Vo Nguyen Giap unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the France named French to begin the Battle of Dien Bien Phu called Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War.
19th March » Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden (1925) or Madison Square Garden in the first television known as televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
19th March » Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today.
22nd March » Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
30th March » The Yonge–University–Spadina line e.g Yonge Street subway line opens in Toronto. It is the first rapid transit known as subway in Canada.
1st April » President of the United States e.g President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
7th April » President of the United States called President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
8th April » A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair T-6 Texan called Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
8th April » South African Airways Flight 201 A De Havilland Comet known as de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
18th April » Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
19th April » The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali language or Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
22nd April » Second Red Scare called Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
25th April » The first practical Solar cell History of solar cells e.g solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Labs named Bell Telephone Laboratories.
26th April » The Geneva Conference (1954) called Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
6th May » Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the Middle distance track event Mile named mile in four-minute mile or under four minutes.
7th May » Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Vietnamese victory (the battle began on March 13).
10th May » Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard (magazine) known as 'Billboard' charts.
13th May » The 1954 National Service Riots called anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese people or Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
13th May » The original Broadway theatre Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony award Tony Awards for Tony Award for Best Musical Best Musical, Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Act
17th May » The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in 'Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas'.
29th May » First of the annual Bilderberg Group named Bilderberg conferences.
12th June » Pope Pius XII canonization named canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
14th June » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
15th June » UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
18th June » Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
24th June » First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass — Vietminh troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambush G.M. 100 of France in An Khê.
27th June » The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary national football team Hungary and Brazil national football team Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead Battle of Berne turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting c
5th July » The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
5th July » The Andhra Pradesh High Court was established.
15th July » First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and Boeing C-135 Stratolifter called C-135 series.
21st July » First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference (1954) known as Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
31st July » First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
10th August » At Massena (town), New York called Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
13th August » Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation or Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
15th August » Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
16th August » The first issue of 'Sports Illustrated' is published.
23rd August » First flight of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules e.g C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
24th August » The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
24th August » Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
8th September » The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
11th September » Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
14th September » In a Totskoye nuclear exercise called top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tupolev Tu-4 known as Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
26th September » Japanese train ferry named rail ferry 'Tōya Maru' sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
27th September » The nationwide debut of 'Tonight Starring Steve Allen' '(The Tonight Show)' hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
29th September » The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
11th October » First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
15th October » Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto. As a Saffir-Simpson Scale e.g Category 4 upon landfall, it is the strongest storm on record to strike as far north as North Carolina.
18th October » Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
24th October » Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam.
27th October » Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
1st November » The National Liberation Front (Algeria) known as Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
3rd November » The Godzilla (1954 film) or first 'Godzilla' film is released and marks the first appearance of the character Godzilla called of the same name.
10th November » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
13th November » Great Britain national rugby league team called Great Britain defeats France national rugby league team or France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
22nd November » The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
27th November » Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
30th November » In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges Meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap in the only documented case of a human being hit by a rock from space.
2nd December » McCarthyism known as Cold War: The United States Senate Joseph McCarthy Censure and the Watkins Committee or votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
2nd December » The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C..
4th December » The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida.
15th December » The Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands is signed.
23rd December » First successful Kidney transplantation known as kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.