March 1954

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The following events occurred in March 1954:

March 1, 1954 (Monday)

• U.S. officials announce that a hydrogen bomb test (Castle Bravo) has been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
• U.S. Capitol shooting incident: Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire in the United States House of Representatives chamber and wound five; they are apprehended by security guards.

March 7, 1954 (Sunday)

• Died:
  • Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
  • Will H. Hays, Namesake for the Hays Code (b. 1879)

March 9, 1954 (Tuesday)

• American journalists Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly produce 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, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874)

March 12, 1954 (Friday)

• Finland and Germany officially end their state of war.

March 13, 1954 (Saturday)

• French troops begin the battle against the Viet Minh in Dien Bien Phu.

March 19, 1954 (Friday)

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

March 23, 1954 (Tuesday)

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

March 25, 1954 (Thursday)

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

March 26, 1954 (Friday)

• Died:Louis Silvers, American film composer (b. 1889)

March 27, 1954 (Saturday)

• The Castle Romeo nuclear test explosion is executed.

March 28, 1954 (Sunday)

• Puerto Rico's first television station, WKAQ-TV, commences broadcasting.
• Trial of A. L. Zissu and 12 other Zionist leaders ends with harsh sentences in Communist Romania.

March 29, 1954 (Monday)

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

March 30, 1954 (Tuesday)

• The first operational subway line in Canada opens in Toronto.
• Died:Horatio Dresser, American writer (b. 1866)

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