08/02/2012 · What Happened in 1954 Important News and Events, Key Technology and Popular Culture. 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 Act outlawing Communist Party in the US, …

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 ...

Jan 4 Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premieres. Jan 7 Georgetown-IBM experiment, 1st public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held at IBM's head office in New York. Jan 8 Jerry Vivino, American rock and R&B saxophonist (Max Weinberg 7; Vivino Brothers), born in Paterson, New Jersey.

05/11/2016 · 21 May 1954 American amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated. 22 May 1954 KREX TV channel 5 in Grand Junction, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting; 24 May 1954 Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit; 26 May 1954 A fire aboard the United States aircraft carrier USS Bennington off Narragansett Bay kills 103 crewmen.

A rebellion of teens and young adults against mainstream American Soicety. They were called hippies and they believed that societal values were misplaced. They wanted to create an alternative culture based on peace and love.

1954 February 23, 1954 - The first large scale vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. April 22, 1954 - Joseph McCarthy begins televised Senate hearings into alleged Communist influence in the United States Army.

The Colonial Period. "Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation." John Smith, founder of the colony of Virginia, 1607. Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration -one of the great folk wanderings of history-swept from Europe to America.

Geneva Conference is convened to bring peace to Vietnam (April to July). The country is divided at the 17th parallel, pending democratic elections. Dien Bien Phu, French military outpost in Vietnam, falls to Viet Minh army (May 7). Background: Vietnam War.