June 1954
The following events occurred in June 1954:
June 7, 1954 (Monday)
- Early computer scientist Alan Turing commits suicide.
June 9, 1954 (Wednesday)
June 14, 1954 (Monday)
- The words "under God" are added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
June 15, 1954 (Tuesday)
June 16, 1954 (Wednesday)
June 17, 1954 (Thursday)
June 18, 1954 (Friday)
June 22, 1954 (Tuesday)
- Sarah Mae Flemming is expelled from a bus in South Carolina for sitting in a white-only section.
- Parker–Hulme murder case: 16-year old Pauline Parker and her friend 15-year-old Juliet Hulme bludgeon Parker's mother to death using a brick at Victoria Park in New Zealand.
June 27, 1954 (Sunday)
- Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz steps down in a CIA-sponsored military coup, triggering a bloody civil war that continues for more than 35 years.
- Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the world's first atomic power station opens at Obninsk, near Moscow.
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