Month of 1954
The following events occurred in June 1954 :
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All 4 Iowa class battleships are together in one place for the only time in their history.[ 9]
Born: Louise Erdrich , US novelist and poet, in Little Falls, Minnesota[ 10]
Died: Alan Turing , 41, British mathematician, cryptanalyst, and pioneer computer scientist (suicide)[ 11]
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 no sense of decency?"[ 15]
Parliamentary elections are held in Iraq ; the Constitutional Union Party remains the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies of Iraq.[ 16]
Born: George Pérez , American comic book artist, in The Bronx , New York (d. 2022)
Died: Alain LeRoy Locke , 68, US writer, philosopher and educator[ 17]
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An IRA unit carries out a daylight arms raid on the British Army's Gough Barracks in Armagh , Northern Ireland . In twenty minutes, the IRA men loaded a cattle truck with 340 rifles, 50 Sten guns, 12 Bren guns, and a volley of smaller arms and ammunition, and drove it away without anyone being injured.[ 19]
A British Royal Air Force Douglas Dakota C.4 crashes into a hill while attempting a night descent into Eastleigh Airport in Nairobi , Kenya , killing all seven people aboard.[ 38]
Born: Anne Kirkbride , British actress (Coronation Street ) in Oldham (died 2015);[ 39] Már Guðmundsson , Icelandic economist, Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland 2009–2019; Robert Menasse , Austrian author and academic, in Vienna
Died: Gideon Sundback , 74, Swedish engineer, developer of the slide fastener (zipper) [ 40]
Sarah Mae Flemming is expelled from a bus in South Carolina for sitting in a white-only section.
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In a meeting, Dr. Wernher von Braun , Frederick C. Durant III , Alexander Satin , David Young, Dr. Fred L. Whipple , Dr. S. Fred Singer , and Commander George W. Hoover agree that a Redstone rocket with a Loki cluster as the second stage could launch a satellite into a 200-mile (320 km) orbit without major new developments. Project Orbiter was a later outgrowth of this proposal and resulted in the launching of Explorer I on January 31, 1958.[ 46]
Hurricane Alice makes landfall in South Texas, United States, before moving into northern Mexico and causing substantial flooding and other damage in the area of the Pecos River and Rio Grande . Over 50 people are known to have been killed.[ 47]
A solar eclipse is visible in parts of the United States , Canada , Greenland , Iceland , Norway , Sweden , and eastern Europe , thence over Iran , Afghanistan , Pakistan and India , 3 days after perigee.[ 56]
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US vocalists R. W. Blackwood, 32, [ 59] and Bill Lyles, age unknown, of the Blackwood Brothers gospel group[ 60] and Bill Lyles, age unknown, of the Blackwood Brothers gospel group, killed in an air crash at Clanton, Alabama , while on tour.[ 61]
Andrass Samuelsen , 80, 1st Prime Minister of Faroe Islands[ 62]
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