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1954
January 21 - The first submarine christened by a First Lady, Mamie Eisenhower, is the Nautilus.
February 23 - Polio vaccine is administered to school children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
March 1 - The U.S. explodes a hydrogen bomb in a test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
March 8 - The U.S. and Japan sign a mutual defense treaty.
March 20 - The first newspaper vending machine is used in Columbia, Pennsylvania.
March 31 - The U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado is established.
April 21 - The U.S. Air Force flies a French battalion to Vietnam to defend that country against the Vietminh in North Vietnam.
April 25 - The first solar battery is invented by Gerald Pearson, Calvin Fuller and Daryl Chapin at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City.
May 17 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules against school segregation.
May 21 - Proposed Constitutional Amendment giving 18 year olds the right to vote is voted down.
September 6 - Ground is broken for the first atomic power plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
September 26 - The first African American Supreme Court page is C.V. Bush.
October 5 - Hurricane Hazel begins a two-week rampage from the Carolinas to Canada.
October 7 - Marian Anderson is the first African American hired by the Metropolitan Opera Company.
October 23 - Great Britain, France, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. agree to end the occupation of Germany.
October 24 - A U.S. Cabinet meeting is shown on television for the first time.
November 19 - The first automatic toll collector is opened on the Garden State Parkway, New Jersey.
December 2 - A mutual defense treaty is signed between the U.S. and Taiwan.