June 1954 calendar

June 1954
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in June 1954.
The US president was Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Sir Winston Churchill (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on June 1954: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of June 1954?

Events

01 Jun 1954 Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2) / 10,000m
02 Jun 1954 John Costello (Cons) becomes Premier of Ireland
04 Jun 1954 France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union
05 Jun 1954 Your Show Of Shows, last airs on NBC-TV
06 Jun 1954 Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
07 Jun 1954 First microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA).
09 Jun 1954 Joseph Welch asks Sen Joseph McCarthy Have you no sense of decency, sir? during Senate-Army hearings
10 Jun 1954 KQED TV channel 9 in SF, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
12 Jun 1954 Girl in Pink Tights closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 115 performances
13 Jun 1954 Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx
14 Jun 1954 US President Dwight Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge.
16 Jun 1954 Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months
17 Jun 1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala
18 Jun 1954 Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán steps down in a CIA-sponsored military coup, triggering a bloody civil war that continues for more than 35 years.
19 Jun 1954 54th US Golf Open: Ed Furgol shoots a 284 at Baltusrol Golf Club - New Jersey
21 Jun 1954 John Landy runs world record mile
22 Jun 1954 US Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands.
23 Jun 1954 122 degrees F (50 degrees C), Overton, Nevada (state record).
26 Jun 1954 Jim Peters runs marathon in 2:17:39.4
27 Jun 1954 1st atomic power station opens
29 Jun 1954 Atomic Energy Commission voted against, reinstating Dr J Robert Oppenheimer.
30 Jun 1954 Largest check: Internal US Treasury check at $4,176,969,623.57
12 Jun 1954 Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared as saints.