March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Day of death April 24, 1954
The temperature on April 24, 1954 was between 0.2 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (90%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
March 19 » Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
June 9 » Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
June 18 » Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
July 5 » Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
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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