1954
From top to bottom, left to right: the Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a decisive Vietnamese victory; Jonas Salk announces the polio vaccine; the 1954 FIFA World Cup sees West Germany win its first title; the Geneva Conference ends the First Indochina War, dissolves French Indochina, and divides Vietnam at the 17th parallel; the Algerian War begins with the Toussaint Rouge attacks; the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état ousts President Jacobo Árbenz; Hurricane Hazel devastates the Caribbean, the U.S., and Canada; the 1954 Blons avalanches kill dozens in Austria; and Castle Romeo is detonated in the Pacific.
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1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1954th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 954th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1950s decade.