The temperature on February 19, 1954 was between -0.3 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain during 13.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
July 20 » Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
October 11 » In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.
October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
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