08/02/2012 · What Happened in 1954 Important News and Events, Key Technology and Popular Culture Major News Stories include Mass vaccination of children against polio begins, Elvis Presley begins his music career, Communist Control …

Historical Events for the Year 1954. 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 ...

United States and American History: 1954. About the history of the United States in 1954, Thoreau's Walden is communist, I love Lucy, first Hydrogen bomb, Army-McCarthy hearings, Puerto Ricans shoot congressman, Brown v. Board of Education. 1954.

On the Vietnamese new year (Tet), the NVA and Viet Cong launched a coordinated attack on South Vietnamese cities. Though they were beaten back with heavy losses, images of the fighting on the news hurt American enthusiasm for the war at home.

02/11/2009 · 1954 Shooting in the House Chamber. On March 1, 1954, while Members gathered on the House Floor for an upcoming vote, three men and one woman entered the visitor’s gallery above the chamber and quietly took their seats. All four belonged to the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and only hours earlier had traveled from New York City to Washington, DC.