June 1954

Tuesday 01:

The Peanuts comic strip character Linus van Pelt is shown with a security blanket for the first time. http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/meet_linus.html

Saturday 05:

The last new episode of the comic variety program, Your Show of Shows, airs.

Wednesday 09:

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.

Monday 14:

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" to the United States' Pledge of Allegiance.

Tuesday 15:

UEFA (the Union des Associations Européennes de Football) is formed in Basle, Switzerland.

Friday 18:

Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France

Saturday 19:

The animated Bugs Bunny short Devil May Hare debuts in theaters, introducing The Tasmanian Devil.

Sunday 27:

World's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.