Some major events from January 1953 through August 1953.
Dag Hammarskjold becomes Secretary General of the UN.
Tito becomes President of Yugoslavia.
George Malenkov becomes head of the Soviet Union, Nikita Krushchev 1st Secretary
US joins negotiations for withdrawal of British troops from Suez Zone.
King Hussein, 18 becomes King of Jordan.
Claire Booth Luce becomes Ambassador to Italy.
Edmund Hillary scales Mt. Everest.
Ethel & Julis Rosenburg, Atom Bomb spies are executed
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Congress creates HEW, Health, Education and Welfare.
Fidel Castro and 170 followers attack Moncada barracks, starts Cuban revolt.
Queen Elizabeth II crowned.
Soviet tanks halt East German revolt.
Jacqueline Cocran first woman to break sound barrier.
Stalin succumbs to stroke.
Eisenhower suspends all Federal control on wages and large % of consumer goods.
Walt Kelly's "The Pogo Papers" are published in NY by Simon & Schuster.
Winston Churchill wins Nobel Peace prize for literature - "The Second World War."
September 1953
1 Army officers called before McCarthy's Senate investigations subcommittee refuse to name Defense Department officials who gave security clearance to 3 civilian employees suspected of communist sympathies.
2 Jane Norman Smith former head of the National Woman's party and a leading campaigner for woman's suffrage, dies in Winsor, VT.
3 Threat of nationwide long lines telephone strike averted when AT&T and communications workers agree on hourly wage increase of 5 cents.
4 Florence Chadwick swims the English Channel.
5 Eisenhower grants $45 million to Iran as emergency economic aid under the Mutual Security Act.
6 Exchange of Korean War prisoners listed as willing to go home is completed in Panmunjom.
7 Navy Department suspends oil exploration under snowfields of Northern Alaska. A 9 year search has uncovered some, but not enough for commercial production.
8 World Series tickets prices are raised to $10 for a box seat, $7 reserved, $4 SRO.
9 Former Queen Narriman of Egypt sues former King Farouk for divorce in Cairo asking $14,350 a month in alimony.
10 National Security Council recommends US aid to France for the war in Indochina be increased from $385 million to $400. Congress agrees.
11 House Un-American Activities Committee releases testimony of a former communist alleging that about 600 protestant clergymen are secret communist party members.
12 Senator JFK marries Newport socialite Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport.
13 Nikita S. Kruschehev is named First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee making him second to Premier Geogri Malenkov.
14 NY Yankees become first team to win 5 successive American League Championships by defeating the Cleveland Indians 8-5.
15 UN General Assembly adopts 44-10 a resolution by US Secretary of State Dulles not to seat China. China announces long term economic aid agreement with Russia.
16 "The Robe," film version of Lloyd Douglas's novel premiers in N. Y.
17 West Berlin Police announce formation of a 3,000 man special motorized force to combat border raids.
18 A.P. Tureaud, son of a New Orleans lawyer becomes first Negro student to be admitted to LSU in Baton Rouge.
19 A World Health Organization committee of experts issues a report in Rome rejecting polio preventative as a complete failure in checking epidemic.
20 American Jewish community charges that East Germany has launched a new anti-semetic campaign barring Jews from many jobs & dissolving Jewish community groups.
21 AFL President George Meany charges Eisenhower Administration has submerged "human values" to "the mutual welfare of the greedy few." He urges greater union political activity to win elections.
22 Council of Europes Consultative Assembly adopts a resolution urging quick ratification of the European Defense Community Treaty.
23 General Maxwell Taylor, US 8th Army commander, charges the communists with rebuilding their armies in North Korea under the cover of truce.
24 General Mark Clark demands that communist commanders account for 3,421 UN prisoners who have not been repatriated.
25 East Germany announces that repatriation of German war prisoners held by Russia is now under way.
26 Pope Pius XII proclaims 1954 a Marian Year to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the definition of the Immaculate Conception as Catholic dogma by Pope Pius IX.
27 Japanese Premier Yoshida recommends a "Long term defense plan to cope with the gradual decrease of US security forces."
28 So. Korean President Rhee threatens to renew fighting if the scheduled political conference fails "to achieve Korean Unification" within 90 days.
29 Communist China reports establishment of an atomic research station.
30 Eisenhower announces his nomination of California Governor Earl Warren as new Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
October 1953
1 Pope Pius XII orders excommunication of all Roman Catholics who had any part in the suspension of Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski as Primate of Poland.
2 600 British troops & 2 warships are dispatched from Jamaica to British Guiana to forestall a left-wing coup.
3 Rookies of the year: Detroit shortstop Harvey Kuenn and Brooklyn second baseman James Gilliam.
4 Pakistan's cabinet agrees on plans to make the country a Republic next year.
5 New Zealand, Brazil and Turkey replace Pakistan, Chile and Greece as temporary UN Security Council members.
6 US Treasury reveals plans to borrow $ 1.5 - 3 billion from banks or other private investors, raising the national debt to within $1 billion of the 275 billion debt limit.
7 British Guiana's Peoples Progressive Party say conditions are normal, charges the British Colonial Office with trying to create hysteria and deprive us of our rights.
8 British sends additional Airborne Force to British Guiana.
9 The Chrysler, Chrysler East and Graybar buildings in New York City are sold for $52 million in the city's biggest real estate transaction on record.
10 A Federal jury in Seattle convicts 5 secondary communist leaders of conspiring to advocate forcible overthrow of the government.
11 Commerce Department reports that annual family income before taxes in the US rose from an average of $3,610 in 1944 to $4,460 in 1950.
12 Asst. Defense Secretary John Hannan announces that all-Negro units will be eliminated entirely by the Army by June 1954.
13 Yugoslavian President Tito moves tanks and troops to Triese due to threat of Italy to annex the area.
14 Israeli forces raid the Jordanian village of Kiby killing 66 residents in retaliation for recent attacks from Jordan on Israel border settlements.
15 Eisenhower issues executive order directing federal employees be fired if they refuse to testify before congressional committees on grounds of self incrimination.
16 Saudi Arabian government imposes marital law to prevent attacks on US Property by dissatisfied oil workers in Al Hassa Province.
17 Jordan asks 7 other Arab nations to tighten their guard around Israel and send military reinforcements to Jordan to ward off "fresh Israel aggression."
18 President Peron claims in an NBC interview that Argentina sides with the west in world affairs and does not trade with Russia in war or strategic material.
19 TWA introduces transcontinental non-stop eastward scheduled air service from Los Angeles to New York City.
20 Secretary of State Dulles expresses opposition to talk of US troop withdrawal from Europe.
21 British House of Commons approves the ouster of the Peoples Progressive Party in British Guiana.
22 Atomic Energy Commission announces selection of Westinghouse as principal construction contractor of a electricity producing atomic reactor.
23 A Soviet government decree ordering sharply increased production of consumer goods by the end of 1954.
24 New York Francis Cardinal Spellman defends US anti-communist investigations in a speech before Catholics in Brussels.
25 A "cattlemens caravan" organized by the National Farmers Union arrives in Washington DC to lobby for government price supports for cattle.
26 Song Writers Protective Association reports that coin operated phonographs (juke boxes) in US gross $1 billion a year and demands legislation to give composers more of the profits.
27 Austrian workers begin a general strike to protest continued allied occupation of their country US Army charges that 6,113 American servicemen are among a total of at least 29,815 persons murdered, tortured or subjected to other forms of "calculated brutality" by communists in Korea.
29 Eleanor Roosevelt opposes outlawing of the US Communist Party denying that "every communist is dedicated to overthrow of the government by force."
30 Former US Secretary of State and General George C. Marshall wins Nobel Peace Prize.
31 "Carmen," the first major opera in color is broadcasted from New York City. Color TV first introduced in the US in 1951.
November 1953
1 West German Christian Democrats win control of Hamburg.
2 UN agrees to take up US atrocity charges against North Korea.
3 RCA broadcasts first coast to coast color TV transmission - NY to Burbank.
4 Israel PM David Ben Gurion announces retirement for at least two years due to "mental stress."
5 A mock Washington DC A-Bomb raid shows Eisenhower would be safe in White House shelter, but 150,000 others would be killed or injured.
6 US and British troops quell civil disturbances in Trieste, Yugoslavia resulting from pro Italian demonstrations and Italy's desire to annex area.
7 Biggest US Air Force base in Europe opens at Ramstein, West Germany.
8 Israel charges that censure by west has encouraged Jordan to step us border hostilities.
9 Cambodia celebrates its first independence day marking end of country's status as French colony.
10 Eisenhower, Churchill & French Premier Laniel announce meeting in Bermuda to discuss matters of common interest.
11 "How to Marry a Millionaire" with Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall premiers in NY City.
12 French Premier Laniel tells the Council of the Republic in Paris France will accept a negotiated peach with the Viet Minh.
13 Mrs. White, Republican, member of the Indiana Textbook Commission demands removal of Robin Hood from school books claiming a communist orientation.
14 NAACP director Clarence Mitchell charges Defense Department is not living up to Eisenhower's policy of ending desegregation in schools on military posts.
15 India PM Nehru warns that US-Pakistani military agreement will be regarded as an unfriendly act.
16 Joseph Stalin's body is entombed beside Lenin in Moscow.
17 Asked at a new conference, Truman said his administration embraced McCarthyism. Eisenhower refuses to give a direct answer.
18 Vice President Nixon says in Tokyo that US made a mistake when it advised Japan in 1946 to discard its Army and Navy.
19 Ireland bans Dr. Alfred Kinsley's book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female."
20 French Union forces seize the Viet Minh stronghold of Dien Bien Phu in northwest Vietnam
21 Milton Eisenhower presents the President with a report outlining 10 proposals designed to improve US relations with Latin America.
22 So. Korean President Rhee promises new nationwide elections if Korea is united.
23 Communist Chinese premier Chou En-Lai and No. Korea premier Kim Il Sung sign a 10 year economic aid agreement that cancels Pyongyang's war debt to China.
24 Secretary of State Dulles agrees with Nixon's analysis that US made a mistake to disarm Japan.
25 Actress-Singer Julie London is divorced from Dragnet star Jack Webb.
26 Touring Vice President Nixon surprises anti-US demonstrators in Burma by walking into their midst shaking hands and asking questions about their pro communism.
27 In a vote considered a rebuke to US the UN General Assembly passes a resolution urging Puerto Rico be granted self government.
28 National Interfraternity Council votes that member fraternities should have the right to impose racial and religious restrictions on membership.
29 American Airlines introduces first regular scheduled two-way non-stop service between NY and LA.
30 Avery Brundage retires as President of the US Olympic Committee after 25 years, but retains his Presidency of the International Olympic Committee.
December 1953
1 General Moshe Dayan is named Israel Chief of Staff
2 811 Japanese captured by Russia during WW II are returned after years in Siberia.
3 AT&T announces it will spend $35 million to lay the first telephone cable across the Atlantic.
4 33,000 USW members strike American and Continental Can demanding a 12 cent hourly wage increase and fringe benefits.
5 Iran and Britain express confidence that they can restore their oil disputes and resume diplomatic relations.
6 HEW Secretary Oveta Culp-Hobby says US schools lacked 72,000 teachers and 345,000 class rooms.
7 Ford Motor Company introduces the first transparent top sports coupe, the Mercury "Sun Valley."
8 Surgeon Alton Ochsner of Tulane University says an increase in cancer of the lungs is due to the cancer producing factor in cigarette smoking.
9 West Berlin reports arrival of 300,000th refugee from East Germany.
10 Ho Chi Minh in a Moscow broadcast offers to open negotiations if France is ready to recognize Indochinese independence.
11 UN Food and Agriculture Council fails in a 3 week conference in Rome to devise a plan to set up world food reserves to meet famine emergencies.
12 Adlai Stevenson charges the four freedoms enunciated by FDR have been replace by the GOP's four fears. Fear of depression, fear of communism, fear of ourselves, and fear of freedom.
13 Air Force test pilot Charles Yeager achieves the speed of more than 1600 mph at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
14 Supreme Court rules that state courts can not enforce state laws which regulate practices controlled by a federal law.
15 Janes, "All the World Aircraft," 1954 edition, discloses Russia has developed a rocket driven fighter plane as a defense against high altitude bombers.
16 Moscow radio announces that former Interior Minister Lavrenti Beria has confessed to state crimes and will be eliminated, oophs, tried for treason.
17 Army installs, north of Washington DC, its first guided missile, anti-aircraft battery at George Meade, MD. It will be equipped with Nike supersonic rockets. (Air Jordan's?)
18 Vice President Nixon returns to Washington after a 10 week goodwill tour that took him to 19 countries and 7 other areas. (What's an area?)
19 Senator Russell Long formerly a key opponent to Hawaii statehood has reversed his position.
20 NY Herald lists Sammuel Shellabager's "Lord Vanity" and Norman Vincent Peale's "The Power of Positive Thinking" as the top fiction and non-fiction books.
21 US's first flying radar station, a Douglas RC-121-c super constellation aircraft.
22 Senator Paul Douglas (D IL) charges that "a real recession" is under way.
23 Soviet government announces the execution of Lavrenti Beria. (was there any doubt?)
24 Israel & Jordon allow Christian pilgrims to cross Palestine armistice lines to celebrate Christmas at Bethlehem in Jordon territory.
25 Queen Elizabeth II, in a Christmas broadcast from New Zealand denounces the British tradition of "Empire" - vowing to uphold a new concept of "equal partnership of races and nations" in the commonwealth.
26 Eisenhower orders US forces in Korea to be progressively reduced as circumstances warrant.
27 AP reports a 78 hour US holiday traffic death toll of 523.
28 A poll of economists (this should be good) believes US is on the brink of an orthodox recession, not just an adjustment.
29 German Red Cross reports that on the basis of interviews with former POWs that most of 1,270.000 German soldiers captured by Russia during WWII are no longer alive.
30 "The Wild One" starring Marlon Brando as leader of a motor cycle gang terrorizing a small town premiers in NYC.
31 Class of 1954 parties at various locations in the Milwaukie, Oregon area.
January1954
1 St. Louis Archbishop Ritter forbids Roman Catholics in his archdiocese to attend the film "The French Line" due to Jane Russell's scanty costume.
2 Tobacco industry announces it will appoint a commission to investigate the connection between cancer and smoking.
3 National Association of Manufacturers opposes liberalization of Taft-Hartley Act.
4 Czechoslovakia is suspended from the International Bank due to its failure to pay the balance of its capital contribution.
5 Continental Can & USW agree on 12 cent hourly wage increase ending 36 day strike.
6 Russia agrees to discuss arrangements with US of an International Atomic Energy Conference.
7 IBM demonstrates a mechanical translator machine for translating languages.
8 Eisenhower's State of the Union speech promises reduced government spending and tax cuts, but asks for increase public debt.
9 Billboard rates "Oh Mein Papa" as nation's most popular song.
10 Coffee wholesale prices rise to record 79 cent a pound in Brazil.
11 Puerto Rican house of Rep. passes a resolution approving the islands status as a US commonwealth.
12 National Security Council formulates the nations basic security strategy with emphasis on creating "a great capability to retaliate instantly" with nuclear weapons.
13 AFL President George Meany attacks Bill providing for a government supervised vote after start of a strike. He calls the measure "a naked strikebreaking device."
14 Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio are married in San Francisco.
15 Air Force plans to send two squadrons of B-61s, pilotless jet bombers, to West Germany for use in NATO defense.
16 Broadway musical "South Pacific" closes after 1,925 performances.
17 Britain lifts much of the secrecy from non-military atomic energy programs, it hopes that all the nations electricity can be generated by atomic power within 20 years.
18 Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson reveals plan to use $1 billion worth of government owned surplus farm products for foreign aid.
19 Senate Interior Committee amends Hawaii statehood bill with rider calling for simultaneous admission for Alaska.
20 Baseball writers elect Walter (Rabbit) Maranvill, Bill Dickey and Bill Terry to Hall of Fame.
21 A Presidential budget asks Congress to spend $ 65 billion in fiscal 1955 leaving a projected deficit of $ 3 billion.
22 General Motors demonstrates first gas powered turbine powered automobile the XP-21 Firebird.
23 The Spanish Roman Catholic magazine Eclesia says most Spanish workers are not practicing Catholics but are influenced by the "Marxist virus"
24 Ernest Hemingway and wife Mary survive the second of two airplane crashes in as many days in Uganda.
25 Defense Department issues revised Korean War casualty list. 30,606 killed, 103,327 wounded, 101 captured and 2,953 missing.
26 RCA President David Sarnoff exhibits experimental flashlight sized atomic battery. He points to thimble sized atomic batteries capable of operating small electric devices without attention for 20 years. (they could do commercials with a rabbit that just keeps going and going..... couldn't resist)
27 British Navy cancels a scheduled visit of the Home Fleet to Spanish ports due to Spanish protests of British occupation of Gilbratar.
28 Eisenhower tells Congress that the US economy "is highly prosperous and enjoys great basic strength." He predicts an end to business contraction in progress since mid 1953.
29 Census Bureau reports a new increase in national unemployment to a 3 year high of 2,360,000.
30 Premier Amintore Fanfani's Italian cabinet resigns after he loses vote of confidence in Chamber of Deputies. (40 years and about 100 cabinets later they still don't have it right) ( no reflection on Pete Yazzolino or myself)
31 Frank Leahy resigns after 11 years as coach of Notre Dame. He suffers from Pancreatitis
February 1954
1 Senate votes 85-1 for a $ 214,000 appropriation to continue operation of McCarthy Senate Investigations. Senator William Fullbright cast sole dissenting vote.
2 Dr. Evarts Graham, Chairman of American College of Surgeons says research leaves no doubt of a direct relation between smoking and lung cancer.
3 Medical authorities in Lucknow, India say they are trying to rehabilitate a 9 year old "wolf boy" found in a railroad car. They say he walks on all fours and behaves as if he was reared from infancy by wild animals.
4 Guatemalan President Guzman calls on leftist parties in Guatemala to close ranks against reactionary forces and resist campaign by US imperialists.
5 Israel delegate asks UN Security Council to impose sanctions against Egypt unless Egypt lifts a Suez Canal blockade of Israel-bound shipping.
6 Defense Department announces plans to send US Air Force technicians and light bombers to aid French forces in Indochina.
7 US Court of Appeals in St. Louis rules that US Weather Bureau cannot be sued for erroneous forecasts.
8 Egypt informs shipping firms it will not blacklist merchant vessels for stopping at Israel ports if they do not visit Arab ports on same voyage.
9 Russia announces it will reject an Austrian Peace Treaty unless the west agrees to bar Austria from NATO and European Defense Community.
10 Eisenhower tells reporters he bitterly opposes involving the US in a shooting war in Indochina saying such a step would be a great tragedy.
11 Vice President Nixon advises Republicans against "indiscriminate attacks of Democrats as a group."
12 US demands Guatemala compensate United Fruit Company for property seized under land reform acts.
13 French Navy officers Cmd. George Houot & Naval engineer Pierre-Henri Wilm dive to a record depth of 13,284 feet in the Atlantic 120 miles west of Dakar, French West Africa.
14 Actress Suzanne Cloutler marries actor-playwright Peter Ustinov in London.
15 Egypt tells the UN it will not abandon the "right of visit and search" of Israel bound ships in Suez Canal while a state of war exists between the two.
16 Washington sources disclose a US plan to train Indochina troops. France is reportedly cold to the idea.
17 Eisenhower promises to consider tax cuts to stimulate the economy if unemployment continues to rise.
18 McCarthy accuses the Army of "coddling communists" and assails General Ralph Zwicker, a hero of D-Day for not stopping the promotion & honorable discharge of Major Irving Peress, a Army dentist who McCarthy labels a 5th amendment communist.
19 UN Secretary General Hammarskjold officially asks Israel & Jordon to meet with him for restricted talks.
20 Parry O'Brien set a new national indoor shotput record at the AAU indoor championships in NY with a toss of 59' 4".
21 A Columbia University psychiatric study group reports after a 3 year study of US schools that emotional disturbances affect 10% of American public school children. (The class of '54 surely brought the average down. We probably only had one disturbed student, insert his or her name here:
22 Eisenhower proposes a program of pay raises, insurance and other benefits for Federal workers for a cost of $350 million a year.
23 Inoculations of school children with anti-polio serum developed by Dr. Jonas Salk begins in Pittsburgh.
24 Labor Department adds 6 areas in Midwest to critical unemployment list, raising list to 59.
25 US orders Poland to close its Consulates-General in New York, Chicago and Detroit claiming they serve no useful purpose.
26 Japan's Premier Yoshida refuses to resign despite criticism of his government for alleged bribe taking by Cabinet Officers.
27 AP announces its college basketball All-American team: Frank Selvey, Furman; Dan Schlundt, Indiana; Tom Gola, LaSalle; Cliff Hagan, Kentucky; Bob Petit, LSU.
28 Harvard botanists declare that corn originated in the Western Hemisphere, not in Asia as we previously believed.
March 1954
1 Clashes between pro Egyptian and pro British Sudanese factions in Khartoum result in 34 deaths.
2 R. T. French Company estimates that Parakeets have become the 3rd largest group of pets (5 million) kept by 3 million Americans.
3 Senate passes Bill for continued recruitment of Mexican labor to work on US farms with or without consent of the Mexican government.
4 Boston's Brigham Hospital reports that a transplanted human kidney functioned for 5 months before patient died of unrelated causes.
5 British Navy launches worlds fastest submarine HMS Explorer powered by Hydrogen Peroxide.
6 John Josiah Newberry founder of JJ Newberry with 475 stores dies.
7 East Germany's Walter Ulbricht becomes official leader of Socialist Unity Party.
8 Einsenhower reports to Congress that US gave it Allies $7.7 billion worth of military aid from October 49 to 1953.
9 Senator John Stennis (D Miss) demands that US Air Force technicians be withdrawn from Indochina warning that we are taking steps that will lead our men directly into war.
10 Eisenhower promises that he will not involve US in conflicts in Indochina or elsewhere unless Congress declares war.
11 A Czech Mig attacks two US Navy planes near Czech-German border hitting one but not incapacitating it.
12 Viet Minh renew their attack on French stronghold of Dien Bien Phu.
13 Vice President Nixon delivers an indirect attack on McCarthy in radio-TV denouncing reckless talk and questionable methods of congressional red hunters.
14 US Supreme Court refuses to review a Texas Supreme Court decision classifying the Korean Conflict as a war.
15 Eisenhower urges rejection of proposal to cut income taxes by raising $600 personal exemption to $1000. Again he denies US faces a depression.
16 Egyptian raiders kill two British soldiers in Suez Canal Zone.
17 American Cancer Society agrees that evidence to date justifies suspicion that smoking does to a degree increase cancer of the lungs.
18 Eisenhower confers with General Douglas MacArthur on Indochina and other international problems.
19 A food panic sweeps Japan when it learns a fishing boat and its catch was exposed to hydrogen bomb test.
20 Russia sends Greece a note protesting US bases in Greece.
21 RKO Pictures Corp shareholders approve sale to Howard Hughes.
22 Mummy of 10 year old Inca girl, perfectly preserved for more than 500 years is found in an icy tomb 20,000 feet up in the Chilean Andes.
23 Secretary State Dulles promises that US will give France all the supplies and equipment needed to defeat the Viet Minh.
24 Mexico City newspaper La Presna charges that public officials extort $1,250,000 a year from city merchants.
25 Dartmouth College students vote to end discrimination of race, relion and nationality.
26 Russia proclaims East Germany's sovereignty, saying the GDR will be free to conduct its own internal and foreign affairs.
27 American Theater presents Tony awards for the 53-54 season to: "Tea House of the August Moon" and "Kismet." Best performers: Audrey Hepburn and David Wayne.
28 Arab raiders from Jordan attack the Israeli settlement of Kisaion killing one inhabitant.
29 Overseas Press Club awards are presented to Joseph and Stewart Alsop; Howard K. Smith; Edward R. Morrow and Walter Lippman.
30 Toronto opens a $60 million 4.6 mile subway, Canada's first.
31 Chile bans auto imports in an effort to conserve foreign exchange.
April 1954
1 Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is divorced in Los Angeles from Actor George Sanders.
2 Burmese troops capture the last stronghold of Chinese Nationalist Guerrillas in the country.
3 Thousands of long shoremen return to NYC docks for the 1st time in a month following an unsuccessful effort to win recognition and a contract for the International longshoremen's Association.
4 First French reinforcements in a week parachute into beleaguer Dien Bien Phu.
5 Dulles warns Communist China aid to the Viet Minh is coming awful close to the kind of aggression he indicated might result in a retaliation not confined to Indochina.
6 Soviet government renews its call for an agreement outlawing mass destruction weapons.
7 General Charles de Gaulle defending Marshal Juins criticism of European Defense Community accuses US of interference in French affairs.
8 British aviation authorities ground all Comet jetliners after a 2nd Comet crashes in the Mediterranean near Capri causing 21 deaths.
9 House passes and sends to Senate a Bill to permit use of evidence obtained by wire tap in trials involving national security.
10 National Cancer Institute estimates that 711,000 Americans are afflicted with cancer.
11 Administration starts an investigation into fraudulent profiteering from Federally insured loans.
12 Japanese Premier Yoshida tells the Diet that his government will reject US invitation to engage in united action in Indochina.
13 Tobacco industry research issues a pamphlet citing 36 cancer specialists support its contention there is no proof that cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer.
14 George Peabody Awards: NBC, "TV Playhouse"; Imogene Coca," Your Show of Shows"; Chet Huntley of KABC Los Angeles, radio new analysis; Edward R. Morrow, A special award.
15 Tax returns due.... no other news.
16 Vice President Nixon in a recorded, off-the-record discussion, says the US may have to send troops to Indochina if there is no other way to prevent it's fall to the communists.
17 Mexico devalues the peso from 8.65 to 12.5 pesos to the US Dollar.
18 Pope Pius XII calls for international prohibition of atomic, biological and chemical warfare in his Easter address.
19 Argentine President Peron announces plans to make the country self sufficient in oil and save $300 million a year in oil imports. (I'm not going to say a thing about Evita)
20 Defense Secretary Charles Wilson say the airlifting of French paratroopers to Indochina is US planes is just a different form of material aid already being given to France.
21 Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency begins a study on the effects of crime, horror and supernatural comic books on young readers.
22 The execution of Private Slovik by William Bradford, is published by Little, Brown in Boston. (Slovik was the only US soldier executed in WWII)
23 US lends $100 million to European coal and steel communities to expand production and revitalize the European capital market.
24 Teamsters Union President Dave Beck gives 100% backing to Rev. Shiel's recent denunciation of McCarthy as a pitifully ineffective anti-communist.
25 Bell Laboratories demonstrates a solar battery which converts the sun's rays directly into electrical energy.
26 Soviet Premier Geogri Mallenkov accuses Washington of provoking the extension of war in Indochina "maintaining an atmosphere of war hysteria, threatening the world with the Hydrogen Bomb and openly proclaiming a prolonged war.
27 Japan Parliament completes ratification of the Mutual Security Treaty with the US.
28 League of Woman's Voters votes at its Denver convention to concentrate on civil liberties in the US during the next two years.
29 House rejects a proposal by Rep. Coudort (R NY) requiring congressional approval before the President can order US troops to a foreign country.
30 Pope Pius XII issues an Encyclical on "Celibacy & Chastity of Members of Religious Orders," warning against the theory that seminarians should be exposed to temptations in order to learn to guard against them. (don't touch this Criv)
May 1954
1 Assistant Secretary of State Byroade warns that continued Middle East turmoil may cause the area to fall under Soviet control and influence.
2 California Governor Goodwin Knight denies Caryl Chessman a reprieve from his death sentence for kidnapping.
3 Columbia University presents the 1953 Pulitzer Prizes to: John Patrick, "Tea House of the August Moon"; Bruce Catton, "Stillness at Appomattox"; Charles Lindbergh's autobiography, "The Spirit of St. Louis" and Theodore Roethke, "The Waking Poems 1933-53."
4 Yale defeats Princeton in the first US intercollegiate court tennis match held at the Racquet & Tennis Club in NYC.
5 NLRB (The National Labor Relations Board) rules that work slowdowns, partial strikes and refusal to work overtime are unfair labor practices.
6 Robert Bannister, 25, a medical student at St. Mary's Hospital in London breaks the 4 minute mile in Oxford, England. 3:58.8
7 Viet Minh forces overrun the French fortress of Dien Bien Phu after a 35 day siege capturing about 10,000 of the 16,000 man garrison.
8 Einsenhower summons the National Security Council to map strategy in the wake of the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu.
9 Supporters of General Charles de Gaulle demonstrate for his return to power when he visits the Unknown Soldiers Tomb in Paris.
10 Senator Estes Kefauver (D Tenn) relates recent US foreign policy setbacks which he attributes to Republican "irresponsibility" in the 1952 election campaign.
11 CIO President Walter Reuther charges that the administration is doing nothing to reverse unemployment effecting 5 million workers.
12 Einsenhower signs Bill authorizing the US to join Canada in construction of the St. Lawerence Seaway.
13 Ethiopia grants US a 99 year military base rights in the country.
14 The IOC votes to admit Communist China to the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. Nationalist China (Taiwan) immediately announces its withdrawal.
15 A large arms shipment from Poland lands at Guatemala's Caribbean port of Puerto Barrios.
16 Mr. Hauge of the Presidential Council of Economic Advisors says the down trend in US business has slowed to a stop and a rising phase is in prospect during the next year.
17 Supreme Court hands down its Brown vs Board of Education decision.
18 Nicaragua severs diplomatic relations with Guatemala charging Guatemala with using its Managua embassy as a center for distributing communist propaganda.
19 McCarthy attacks Eisenhower Administration and State Department in a Senate speech for aiding countries that trade with Communist China.
20 Six tons of anti-aircraft shells in transit from Switzerland to Guatemala are halted by British occupation authorities in Hamburg, West Germany.
21 Senate fails to provide two-thirds majority vote for approval of the administration's proposed constitutional amendment reducing the voting age from 21 to 18.
22 NACCP instructs its branch offices in southern states to petition local school boards for action to abolish racial desegregation without delay.
23 A Viking XI rocket fired from White Sands, NM becomes the first rocket to exceed an altitude of 150 miles.
24 The first traveling sidewalk is opened at the railroad station in Jersey City, NJ.
25 Ethiopian Emperor Halle Selassie arrived in NY on the start of his State visit to the US, Canada and Mexico.
26 Senator Edwin Johnson (D CO) drops his campaign to make baseball clubs owned by business firms subject to anti-trust laws.
27 93 sailors are killed and 200 injured by fire and explosion aboard the US aircraft carrier Bennington, seven miles off Quonset Point, RI.
28 French Cabinet approves the induction of 80,000 conscripts to replace Army regulars transferred to Indochina from Germany & North Africa.
29 Senator Bridges (R NH) and Stuart Symington (D MO) reporting on their tour of Western Europe say foreign aid policy should be subjected to a thorough congressional reappraisal.
30 16 former Cuban government officials are indicted in NY on charges of conspiring to export arms from US to Cuba in violation of the US Neutrality Act.
June 1954
1 Air Force reports 87 flying saucer sightings have been reported in the US this year. (probably looking for the universally known Class of '54, MUHS)
2 Japanese Diet completes passage of Bills establishing a Self Defense Force of 140,000 troops.
3 Archeologist Ghoniem, Chief Inspector of Egyptian Antiquities uncovers oldest known un-touched tomb of an Egyptian Pharaoh at Sakkara, believed to be that of Sankhet who ruled about 2,750 B. C.
4 Senate Majority Leader William Knowland says US should face up to the fact that it may have to intervene in Indochina to prevent Viet Minh capture of Hanoi.
5 Senator Bridges (R NH) says he favors use of the Atom Bomb in Indochina rather than sending US troops there.
6 Soldiers and leaders of 8 countries observe 10th anniversary of D Day in ceremonies held on Utah Beach in Normandy.
7 Wally Cox, TVs Mr. Peepers marries dancer Marilyn Gennaro.
8 Dulles says US will not go it alone in Indochina unless Communist China commits new acts of aggression in the Far East.
9 Egypt and Saudi Arabia announce in Cario an agreement to pool their resources for production of arms and military training.
10 Civil defense drills to test precautions against an A-Bomb are carried out in continental US, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands and Canada.
11 NLRB examiner absolves the Studebaker Corp. of charges brought by former workers who said they were forced out of their jobs for buying cars made by other manufacturers.
12 British PM Churchill announces that Communist China has agreed to send a representative to London to negotiate the establishment of a full Anglo-Chinese diplomatic relationship.
13 Defense Department proposes a modified universal military training plan to insure maintenance of a combat ready reserve of 3 million men.
14 Senate Finance Committee sends the full Senate a Bill to reduce taxes by $ 1.5 billion.
15 "Demetrius and the Gladiators," starring Victor Mature and Susan Hayward premiers in NY.
16 Russia demonstrates new military aircraft over Moscow's Tushino Airport in the largest air show ever witnessed by foreign observers.
17 John Landy of Melbourne, Australia runs the mile in a new world record of 3 min, 58.0 sec.
18 Senator Margaret Chase Smith is re-nominated in Maine Republican Senatorial primary over McCarthy supporter Robert Jones.
19 California Indians appeal for $90 million damages from Federal Government for seizure of Indian lands during the 1849 gold rush.
20 Senate minority leader Lyndon Johnson (D TX) introduces a resolution to re-affirm the Monroe Doctrine making it clear that American Nations will act to prevent further Soviet interference in the Western Hemisphere.
21 Nationaist China seizes Soviet tanker 125 miles south of Taiwan claiming that the ship is carrying fuel oil for delivery to Comunnist China.
22 French forces in Indochina abandon Ankhe, on Annam Plateau & largest French base in area.
23 Vice President Nixon charges that the political policies of former President Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson resulted in the loss of China and the current Asian crisis.
24 Organization of American States votes to hold a special foreign ministers meeting in Rio de Janeiro to study communist penetration of the Western Heisphere.
25 French Union forces complete their withdrawal from Southern Red River delta to a defense primeter surrounding Hanoi and Haiphong.
26 Senate Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson warns that the American people will refuse to support the UN if Communist China wins membership.
27 Former President Hoover announces the General Mark Clark will head a government task force studying the structure and aministration of the CIA.
28 The last of the British ration system imposed during WWII ends with elimination of meat rationing.
29 West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer demands France ratify the European Defense Community Pact in its present form claiming that delay in French approval has held up recognition of West German sovereignty.
30 French Union and Viet Minh military representatives open truce negotiations at Trungia, 25 miles north of Hanoi.
Major events July through December 1954
Time magazine man of the year: Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles.
Eisenhower proposes major overhaul & expansion of US highways.
Dulles & West German Chancellor agree on restoration of German Sovereignty.
B-58 first US supersonic bomber goes into production.
General Fulgencio Batista is elected President of Cuba without opposition.
S. African PM Strijdom calls for stronger Apartheid policy to prevent outbreak of interracial violence.
British end 72 years of occupation of Egypt.
Pope allows US clergy to deliver sacraments in English.
NATO votes to end occupation of West Germany.
Einsenhower commits 7th Fleet to protect Taiwan from invasion.
Nasser takes full control over Egypt.
And finally:
Senate "socks it to" McCarthy voting 67-22 to condemn McCarthy for conduct unbecoming a US Senator. The vote climaxed months of controversy over the tactics of the Senator in his investigations of Communists in the government and public at large. McCarthy's power waned rapidly after this overdue censure of the Senator.