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| 1954 |
| | | Dylan Thomas's 'play for voices', Under Milk Wood, is broadcast on BBC radio, with Richard Burton as narrator | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Senator McCarthy's Communist witch-hunt is broadcast live for several weeks on US television | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Japanese film director Kurasawa Akira directs The Seven Samurai | |
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| 1954 |
| | | J. Robert Oppenheimer, the 'father of the atomic bomb', is investigated for Communist sympathies and his security clearance is withdrawn | |
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| 1954 |
| | | The term Domino Theory is coined to reflect President Eisenhower's view of how states might fall to Communism | |
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| 1954 |
| | | A painting by Graham Sutherland, commissioned for Winston Churchill's 80th birthday, does not meet with the full approval of the sitter or his wife | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Bill Haley & His Comets record Rock Around the Clock, providing an early classic of US rock and roll | |
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| 1954 |
| | | The German firm NSU builds the first working example of the rotary engine invented in 1924 by Felix Wankel | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Hungarian photographer Robert Capa is killed by a land mine in Vietnam | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Alfredo Stroessner seizes power in Paraguay, introducing three decades of repressive dictatorship | |
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