The first Church of Scientology is opened in Los Angeles.
Tag: 1954
26 April 1954
The Geneva Conference convenes in an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea.
23 February 1954
The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh, USA.
22 April 1954
Testimony is begun in the Army-McCarthy Hearing with live television coverage during the Red Scare
14 September 1954
A Soviet bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic bomb north of Totskoye village, exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians to nuclear fallout as part…