1954

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Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 - 1954 - 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

Births

Deaths

February 12 - Dziga Vertov, filmmaker

Events

May 7 -- Construction started on Michigan's Mackinac Bridge.
May 17 -- US Supreme Court hands down decision in Brown v. Board of Education
May 20: Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China
West Germany wins Football World Cup in Switzerland
First flight of a B-52 Stratofortress

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Max Born, - Walther Bothe
Chemistry - Linus Carl Pauling
Medicine - John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins
Literature - Ernest Miller Hemingway
Peace - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees.

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