March 1954

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The following events occurred in March 1954:

March 1, 1954 (Monday)

• U.S. officials announced that a hydrogen bomb nuclear test (Castle Bravo) had been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean as part of Operation Castle.
• U.S. Capitol shooting: Four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire in the United States House of Representatives chamber and wounded five; they were apprehended by security guards.
• Born:
  • Catherine Bach, American actress
  • Ron Howard, American film director, producer and actor

March 2, 1954 (Tuesday)

• Born: Hunt Sales, musician

March 3, 1954 (Wednesday)

• Born:
  • Keith Fergus, American professional golfer
  • Robert Gossett, American actor
  • John Lilley, American musician

March 4, 1954 (Thursday)

• Born:
  • François Fillon, Prime Minister of France (2007-2012)
  • Ricky Ford, American jazz musician
  • Peter Jacobsen, American professional golfer
  • Boris Moiseev, Russian singer (d. 2022)
  • Ray Troll, American artist
  • Anne Van Lancker, Belgian politician

March 5, 1954 (Friday)

March 6, 1954 (Saturday)

March 7, 1954 (Sunday)

• Born:
  • Mike Armstrong (baseball), American baseball player
  • Will Grant, American football player
  • Nyls Nyman, American baseball player
  • Carol M. Swain, American political scientist
  • Jasmina Tešanović, Serbian author and political activist
• Died:
  • Otto Diels, 78, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate^[1]
  • Will H. Hays, 74, namesake for the Hays Code

March 8, 1954 (Monday)

• Born:
  • Cheryl Baker, British singer and television presenter
  • Karl Schnabl, Austrian Olympic ski jumper
  • David Wilkie, Scottish Olympic swimmer
• Died:
  • Lawrence Townsend, 93, American diplomat

March 9, 1954 (Tuesday)

• American journalists Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly produced a 30-minute See It Now documentary, entitled "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy".
• Born:
  • Bobby Sands, Irish republican hunger striker (d. 1981)
• Died:
  • Vagn Walfrid Ekman, 79, Swedish oceanographer
  • Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, 41, German astronomer

March 10, 1954 (Wednesday)

March 11, 1954 (Thursday)

March 12, 1954 (Friday)

• Finland and Germany officially ended their state of war.

March 13, 1954 (Saturday)

• First Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu began, involving the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Việt Minh Communist fighters.^[2]
• Died: César Klein, 77, German Expressionist painter^[3]

March 14, 1954 (Sunday)

March 15, 1954 (Monday)

March 16, 1954 (Tuesday)

March 17, 1954 (Wednesday)

March 18, 1954 (Thursday)

March 19, 1954 (Friday)

• Joey Giardello knocked out Willie Tory at Madison Square Garden, in the first televised boxing prize fight to be shown in color.

March 20, 1954 (Saturday)

March 21, 1954 (Sunday)

March 22, 1954 (Monday)

March 23, 1954 (Tuesday)

• In Vietnam, the Viet Minh captured the main airstrip of Dien Bien Phu. The remaining French Army units there were partially isolated.

March 24, 1954 (Wednesday)

March 25, 1954 (Thursday)

• The 26th Academy Awards ceremony was held.
• RCA manufactured the first color television set (12-inch screen; price: $1,000).
• The Soviet Union recognised the sovereignty of East Germany. Soviet troops remained in the country.

March 26, 1954 (Friday)

• Born: Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese voice actor
• Died: Louis Silvers, 64, American film composer

March 27, 1954 (Saturday)

• The Castle Romeo nuclear test explosion was executed.

March 28, 1954 (Sunday)

• Puerto Rico's first television station, WKAQ-TV, commenced broadcasting.
• The trial of A. L. Zissu and 12 other Zionist leaders ended with harsh sentences in Communist Romania.
• The British troopship HMT Empire Windrush suffered an engine-room explosion and fire. Four crew were killed but 1494 crew and passengers were saved. The abandoned ship sank two days later.
• Egyptian protests in The Republic of Egypt against democracy.
• Born:
  • Bill Bourne, Canadian musician (d. 2022)
  • Arthur Frederick Goode III, American murderer (d. 1984)

March 29, 1954 (Monday)

• A C-47 transport with French nurse Geneviève de Galard on board was wrecked on the runway at Dien Bien Phu.
• Born: Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)

March 30, 1954 (Tuesday)

• Toronto subway: The first operational subway line in Canada.
• Died: Horatio Dresser, 88, American writer

March 31, 1954 (Wednesday)

• Born: Tony Brock, British musician

References

1. "Otto Diels – Facts". NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB. 2023. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
2. History Study Board of The General Staff (1991). History of the General Staff in the Resistance War against the French 1945–1954 (in Vietnamese). Ha Noi: People's Army Publishing House. p. 799.
3. Sotriffer, Kristian (1972). Expressionism and Fauvism. McGraw-Hill. p. 133. ISBN 9780070597648 – via Google Books.