April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
Day of death December 11, 1954
The temperature on December 11, 1954 was between -1.5 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
April 25 » The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
May 6 » Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
July 4 » Rationing ends in the United Kingdom.
July 5 » Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
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