June 1954

The following events occurred in June 1954:

June 7, 1954 (Monday)

• Early computer scientist Alan Turing commits suicide.

June 8, 1954 (Tuesday)

• Mohammad Barghi founds Azar Factory in Urmia, West Azerbaijan, Iran.

June 9, 1954 (Wednesday)

• McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy, during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army, saying, "Have you, at long last, no decency?"

June 14, 1954 (Monday)

• The words "under God" are added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.

June 15, 1954 (Tuesday)

• The UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.

Mark Roy Jablonka was born at 08:30am. Parents: Harold Carl Jablonka and Anita Irene Oldenberg. Siblings: Paul, Pamela, Tomas, Laura and Matthew born in 1958.

June 16, 1954 (Wednesday)

• start of the 1954 FIFA World Cup held in Switzerland

June 17, 1954 (Thursday)

• A CIA-engineered military coup occurs in Guatemala. Democratically elected President of Guatemala Jacobo Árbenz was ousted and the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas took power.
• The uprising of 1953 in East Germany was brutally suppressed; June 17 was celebrated in West Germany as German Unity Day until after German reunification occurred.^[1]

June 18, 1954 (Friday)

• Pierre Mendès France becomes prime minister of France.

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 24, 1954 (Thursday)

• The Battle of Mang Yang Pass begins in Mang Yang, Vietnam. It would become the last battle of the First Indochina War. The battle would last until June 29.

June 25, 1954 (Friday)

• Craig Onslow Belshe was born on this date in Denver Colorado. His parents were Donna Lou (Sapington) Belshe and Dale Curtis Belshe.

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.
• A by-poll was held in Guinea for a seat in the National Assembly of France.

June 29, 1954 (Tuesday)

• The Battle of Mang Yang Pass ends in Vietnam. It resulted in the end of the First Indochina War, as well as the final defeat of the French.

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