| January 1 | KSLA TV channel 12 in Shreveport, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 1 | Rose and Cotton Bowl are 1st sports colorcasts |
| January 1 | WWTV TV channel 9 in Cadillac-Traverse City, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| January 1 | Yugoslav parliament chairman/Vice President Milovan Djilas criticize communism |
| January 2 | Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny," premieres in New York City |
| January 4 | Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville |
| January 4 | Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premieres |
| January 8 | Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio and records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way" |
| January 9 | -87 degrees F (-66 degrees C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record) |
| January 9 | Bert Olmstead, Mont Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game |
| January 9 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan and Leonie Adams |
| January 10 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden |
| January 11 | 2 ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche 10 die (Austria) |
| January 12 | Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hrs later 2nd one-kills 115 |
| January 12 | Queen Elizabeth II opens New Zealand parliament |
| January 13 | Miltary rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested |
| January 13 | WEAR TV channel 3 in Pensacola-Mobile, Florida (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| January 14 | New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio marries actress Marilyn Monroe |
| January 14 | Sandy Wilson's musical "Boyfriend," premieres in London |
| January 16 | "South Pacific" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 1928 performances |
| January 17 | Jacques Cousteau's 1st network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS) |
| January 17 | NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-9 |
| January 17 | Suggs Louise wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open (Cloister) |
| January 18 | Fanfani forms Italian government |
| January 20 | -70 degrees F (-57 degrees C), Rogers Pass, Montana (U.S. 48 state record) |
| January 20 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' "Concertino opus 94," premieres |
| January 21 | 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (New York City) |
| January 23 | Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP |
| January 23 | Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games) |
| January 24 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open |
| January 24 | BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Don Carter |
| January 26 | Ground breaking begins on Disneyland |
| January 29 | Arnold Schoenberg's "De Profundis," premieres in Cologne |
| January 30 | Belgium ends trade agreement with U.S.S.R. |
| January 30 | Italy's Fanfani government resigns |
| February 1 | 1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres |
| February 1 | Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire |
| February 1 | Soccer team The County froms in Doetinchem |
| February 2 | Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game |
| February 2 | President Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb, done in 1952 |
| February 2 | Snow falls on Gibraltar |
| February 3 | Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32) |
| February 5 | WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| February 9 | Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy |
| February 10 | Eisenhower warns against U.S. intervention in Vietnam |
| February 10 | Ice Dance Championship at Oslo won by Jean Westwood/Lawrence Demmy GRB |
| February 10 | Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe/Norris Bowden CAN |
| February 10 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Gundi Busch GER |
| February 10 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Hayes Alan Jenkins US |
| February 11 | 6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor and Eve Arden wins |
| February 13 | Frank Selvey scores 100 points for Furman beating Newberry 149-95 |
| February 14 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| February 14 | Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press" |
| February 14 | WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 15 | 1st bevatron in operation-Berkeley, California |
| February 15 | WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 16 | WNEM TV channel 5 in Bay City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| February 19 | WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, New York (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| February 20 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open |
| February 20 | General Zahedi wins election in Persia |
| February 23 | 1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh) |
| February 23 | Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli |
| February 25 | Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier |
| February 26 | 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Massachusetts |
| February 26 | Michigan rep Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock and roll) records |
| February 28 | Patty Berg/Pete Cooper wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament |
| February 28 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| March 1 | 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in U.S. House of Representatives injuring 5 representatives |
| March 1 | In spring training, Ted Williams breaks his collarbone |
| March 1 | Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die |
| March 1 | Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War |
| March 1 | U.S. explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll |
| March 4 | J. E. Wilkins, appointed 1st Black U.S. sub-cabinet member |
| March 5 | "Girl in Pink Tights" opens at Mark Hellinger New York City for 115 performances |
| March 7 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
| March 7 | Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition |
| March 9 | 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) New York City (Castro Decorators) |
| March 9 | Edward R. Murrow criticizes Senator Joseph McCarthy on 'See it Now' |
| March 9 | WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester, New Hampshire (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| March 11 | U.S. Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics |
| March 12 | 1st performance of Arnold Schonberg's "Moses und Aaron" |
| March 13 | Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron |
| March 13 | Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu |
| March 14 | Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game |
| March 14 | KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior, MN (CBS) begins |
| March 14 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| March 14 | NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak |
| March 15 | "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite and Jack Paar |
| March 15 | WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| March 19 | 1st color telecast of a prize fight, Giardello vs Troy in MSG, New York City |
| March 19 | 1st rocket-driven sled on rails was tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico |
| March 19 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
| March 19 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins |
| March 19 | Weekes, Worrell and Walcott complete tons in innings vs. England |
| March 20 | 16th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: La Salle beats Bradley 92-76 |
| March 20 | 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania) |
| March 20 | "King and I" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 1246 performances |
| March 21 | KFBB TV channel 5 in Great Falls, Montana (ABC/CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| March 22 | 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield, Michigan |
| March 25 | 26th Academy Awards - "From Here to Eternity," Holden and A Hepburn win |
| March 25 | Pope Pius XII encyclical "Sacra virginitas" (On consecrated virginity) |
| March 25 | RCA manufactures 1st color TV set, a 12-inch screen for $1,000 |
| March 26 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| March 28 | 8th Tony Awards: Teahouse of the August Moon and Kismet win |
| March 28 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open |
| March 28 | WKAQ TV channel 2 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (TM) begins broadcasting |
| March 30 | Test Cricket debut of Garry Sobers vs. England at Kingston |
| March 31 | U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, established |
| March 31 | U.S.S.R. offers to join NATO |
| April 1 | 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC |
| April 1 | 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens |
| April 1 | Earthquake and tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed |
| April 1 | U.S. Air Force Academy forms |
| April 1 | WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 2 | Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced |
| April 3 | Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record) |
| April 3 | "Me and Juliet" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 358 performances |
| April 4 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open |
| April 5 | Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right" |
| April 6 | Montreal Canadians score 3 goals in 56 sec in playoff game against Detroit |
| April 6 | TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson and Sons |
| April 6 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| April 7 | German government refuses to recognize DDR |
| April 7 | President Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China |
| April 7 | WALB TV channel 10 in Albany, Georgia (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| April 8 | "By the Beautiful Sea" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 270 performances |
| April 9 | WECT TV channel 6 in Wilmington, North Carolina (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 10 | KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| April 11 | Marlene Bauer wins LPGA New Orleans Golf Open |
| April 12 | 18th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 289 |
| April 12 | 8th NBA Championship: Minnesota Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 3 |
| April 12 | Belgian Van Houtte government resigns |
| April 12 | Bill Haley and Comets records "Rock Around Clock" |
| April 12 | Joe Turner releases "Shake, Rattle and Roll" |
| April 13 | Baltimore Orioles 1st game, loses to Tigers in Detroit 3-0 |
| April 13 | Milwaukee Braves' Hank Aaron's 1st game |
| April 13 | Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist |
| April 14 | Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra |
| April 15 | KARK TV channel 4 in Little Rock, AR (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| April 15 | Orioles 1st game in Baltimore beat White Sox 3-1 |
| April 15 | WHO TV channel 13 in Des Moines, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| April 15 | Yankees dedicate a plaque to Edward Barrow |
| April 16 | KVAL TV channel 13 in Eugene, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 16 | Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 3 |
| April 18 | Colonel Nasser seizes power and becomes Prime Minister of Egypt |
| April 18 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| April 19 | 58th Boston Marathon won by Veikko Karvonen of Finland in 2:20:39 |
| April 19 | 7-time winner of Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th |
| April 20 | "Golden Apple" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 125 performances |
| April 21 | Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of U.S.S.R. |
| April 21 | USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam |
| April 22 | Achiel van Acker forms Belgian government |
| April 22 | NBA adopts 24-second shot clock and 6 team-foul rule |
| April 22 | Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began |
| April 22 | U.S.S.R. joins UNESCO |
| April 23 | Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers |
| April 24 | 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina |
| April 24 | Australia and U.S.S.R. break diplomatic relations |
| April 24 | WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 25 | Bell labs announces 1st solar battery |
| April 25 | British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects arrested) |
| April 25 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island atmospher |
| April 25 | WDEF TV channel 12 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 26 | Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva |
| April 26 | Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins |
| April 30 | Darius Milhauds 4th Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Haifa |
| May 1 | 80th Kentucky Derby: Raymond York aboard Determine wins in 2:03 |
| May 1 | Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden) |
| May 1 | HSA-UWC Forms (Unification Church) (Moonies) |
| May 1 | WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting |
| May 2 | Stan Musial hits 5 home runs in a doubleheader |
| May 3 | KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| May 3 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A. Lindbergh and John Patrick |
| May 3 | WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, Wisconsin (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| May 4 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| May 5 | Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay |
| May 6 | Roger Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4) |
| May 7 | French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu |
| May 7 | U.S., Great Britain and France reject Russian membership in NATO |
| May 8 | 1st shot-put over 60' (18.29 m)-Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles, CA |
| May 10 | Bolshoi-ballet does not appear in Paris |
| May 13 | Labour Party wins British municipal elections |
| May 13 | "Pajama Game" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 1063 performances |
| May 13 | Robin Roberts gives up a HR then retires next 27 men in a row |
| May 13 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| May 14 | Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months |
| May 15 | KGLO (now KIMT) TV channel 3 in Mason City, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| May 16 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open |
| May 16 | Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone |
| May 16 | WGAN (now WGME) TV channel 13 in Portland, ME (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| May 17 | School desegregation law, Brown vs. Board of education |
| May 17 | Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision |
| May 18 | European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect |
| May 19 | Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project |
| May 20 | Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China |
| May 21 | Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated |
| May 22 | 80th Preakness: Johnny Adams aboard Hasty Road wins in 1:57.4 |
| May 22 | KREX TV channel 5 in Grand Junction, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| May 22 | Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed |
| May 24 | 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM |
| May 24 | Dr. Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit |
| May 24 | German airline Lufthansa forms |
| May 24 | IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour |
| May 29 | Kirk and Anne Douglas married |
| May 29 | Pope Pius X issues holy declaration |
| May 30 | Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs |
| May 30 | Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2) |
| May 30 | Hector Villa-Lobos' "Odisseia de Uma Raca," premieres |
| June 1 | Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2) |
| June 2 | John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland |
| June 4 | Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m |
| June 4 | France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union |
| June 5 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ecclesiae fastos |
| June 5 | "Your Show Of Shows," last airs on NBC-TV |
| June 6 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| June 7 | 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated, New Brunswick, New Jersey |
| June 9 | Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during Senate-Army hearings |
| June 10 | KQED TV channel 9 in SF, California (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 10 | PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting |
| June 12 | 86th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard High Gun wins in 2:30.8 |
| June 12 | Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock," is originally released |
| June 12 | "Girl in Pink Tights" closes at Mark Hellinger New York City after 115 performances |
| June 12 | Milwaukee Braves Jim Wilson no-hits Phillies, 2-0 |
| June 13 | Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx |
| June 14 | President Eisenhower signs order adding words 'under God' to the Pledge |
| June 15 | Great Britain's 2 biggest steel factory nationalized |
| June 16 | Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months |
| June 16 | Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam |
| June 17 | CIA exile army lands in Guatemala, JF Dulles and United Fruit Co |
| June 17 | Rocky Marciano beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| June 17 | Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends |
| June 18 | Pierre Mendes-France forms French government |
| June 19 | 54th U.S. Golf Open: Ed Furgol shoots a 284 at Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey |
| June 19 | Betty Jameson wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| June 19 | Tasmanian Devil, debuts in "Devil May Hare" by Warner Bros |
| June 21 | John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0) |
| June 22 | Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands |
| June 23 | 122 degrees F (50 degrees C), Overton, Nevada (state record until June 29, 1994) |
| June 24 | "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" closes at Imperial New York City after 229 perf |
| June 26 | Jim Peters runs marathon in 2:17:39.4 |
| June 27 | 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia) |
| June 27 | CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala |
| June 28 | 111 degrees F (44 degrees C) at Camden, South Carolina (state record) |
| June 29 | Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer |
| June 30 | Largest check: Internal U.S. Treasury check at $4,176,969,623.57 |
| June 30 | Yank pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting 3 batters in 1 inning This was also Bobby Brown's last game; he retired to become a doctor |
| July 1 | Cards' Joe Cunningham hits 2 home runs for record 3 home runs in his 1st 2 days |
| July 1 | Test Cricket debut of Khalid Hassan, 16 years 352, then world record |
| July 1 | WDBO (now WCPX) TV channel 6 in Orlando, Florida (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| July 2 | 68th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Drobny beats K Rosewall (13-11 46 62 97) |
| July 2 | Denis Compton scores 278 in 290 minutes vs. Pakistan |
| July 3 | 61st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (62 75) |
| July 3 | 9th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson Zaharias |
| July 3 | Food rationing ends in Britain |
| July 3 | "Wonderful Town" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 559 performances |
| July 4 | West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern |
| July 4 | WMSL (WYUR, now WAFF) TV channel 48 in Huntsville, AL (ABC) begins |
| July 5 | B-52A bomber made its maiden flight |
| July 5 | Last day of Test Cricket for Khalid Hassan aged 16 yrs, 356 days |
| July 6 | Elvis Presley records his 1st hit, "That's All Right" |
| July 6 | KMOS TV channel 6 in Sedalia-Warrensburg, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| July 6 | Tunisian government of M'zali, resigns |
| July 7 | T.A.N.U. party forms in Tanzania |
| July 8 | KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| July 8 | Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala |
| July 11 | 1st White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Miss |
| July 12 | Major League Baseball Players Association founded |
| July 12 | President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system |
| July 13 | 21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland |
| July 13 | Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a batter, he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9 |
| July 14 | 117 degrees F (47 degrees C), East St. Louis, Illinois (state record) |
| July 14 | 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Warsaw and Union, Missouri (state record) |
| July 15 | 110 degrees F (43 degrees C) at Balcony Falls, Virginia (state record) |
| July 15 | 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707) |
| July 15 | KOCO TV channel 5 in Oklahoma City, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| July 15 | WBOC TV channel 16 in Salisbury, MD (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| July 17 | 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers) |
| July 17 | Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany |
| July 18 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Inverness Four-Ball Golf Tournament |
| July 18 | Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forfeit game |
| July 20 | Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North and South |
| July 20 | Tennis champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident |
| July 20 | West German secret service head Otto John defects to East Germany |
| July 21 | At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North and South Vietnam |
| July 22 | Virgin Islands (U.S.) adopts constitution (Revised Organic Act) |
| July 22 | WTHI TV channel 10 in Terre Haute, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| July 25 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open |
| July 26 | WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| July 27 | 36th PGA Championship: Chick Herbert at Keller Golf Club St. Paul Minnesota |
| July 27 | Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries |
| July 28 | Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet, premieres |
| July 30 | Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles |
| July 30 | Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71 |
| July 31 | Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 home runs, 1 double) |
| August 1 | Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France |
| August 1 | WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| August 2 | Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia |
| August 3 | 1st VTOL, Vertical Take-off and Land, flown |
| August 4 | Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning |
| August 5 | Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern and 15 pioneers |
| August 5 | Patty Berg wins LPGA World Golf Championshio |
| August 6 | WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| August 7 | Charles Mahoney becomes 1st U.S. black to serve as a full United Nations delegate |
| August 7 | "Golden Apple" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 125 performances |
| August 10 | Netherlands Indonesian Union breaks up |
| August 10 | Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins |
| August 11 | BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0 |
| August 11 | Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh |
| August 12 | Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row |
| August 13 | 21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470) |
| August 14 | WGR TV (now WGRZ) TV channel 2 in Buffalo, New York (NBC) begins |
| August 15 | Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay |
| August 15 | WCHS TV channel 8 in Charleston-Huntington, WV (ABC) begins |
| August 16 | 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood |
| August 16 | Sports Illustrated magazine begins publishing |
| August 18 | James E. Wilkins is 1st black to attend a U.S. cabinet meeting |
| August 19 | Ralph J. Bunche named undersecretary of UN |
| August 22 | WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, Florida (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| August 23 | President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily |
| August 24 | Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party |
| August 24 | International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China |
| August 24 | William Heatherton's "Reluctant Debutante," premieres in London |
| August 25 | Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon (2:25:26.6) (260m) |
| August 29 | San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens |
| August 30 | Hurricane Carol, kills 68 |
| August 31 | Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die |
| August 31 | Indians beat Yankees 6-1 for record tying 26 wins in August (1931 A's) |
| August 31 | WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins |
| September 1 | Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island/New England, kills 68 |
| September 1 | Ted Kluszewski is 1st Cincinnati Red to hit 40 home runs en route to 49 |
| September 2 | Hurricane Edna batters NE U.S., killing 20 |
| September 2 | WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 3 | China begins artillery bombing on Quemoy and Amoy |
| September 3 | Espionage and Sabotage Act of 1954 signed |
| September 3 | Pope Pius X canonized a saint |
| September 4 | 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed |
| September 4 | Peter B Cortese of U.S. achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania |
| September 5 | Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die |
| September 6 | 68th U.S. Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86) |
| September 6 | 74th U.S. Mens Tennis: E V Seixas, Jr. beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64) |
| September 6 | U.S. plane shot down above Siberia |
| September 6 | WINS New York City begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show |
| September 6 | Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters |
| September 7 | Integration begins in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland public schools |
| September 8 | Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to New York City for WINS radio |
| September 8 | SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communists in Asia |
| September 9 | Earthquake strikes Orleansville, Algeria: 1,400 killed |
| September 9 | Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season |
| September 10 | 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria |
| September 10 | Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls |
| September 10 | WLUK TV channel 11 in Green Bay, Wisconsin (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 11 | 1st Miss America TV broadcast |
| September 11 | 20.4 cm rainfall at Brunswick, Maine (state record) |
| September 11 | KXJB TV channel 4 in Valley City (Fargo) (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 11 | Lee Meriwether (Calif), 19, crowned 27th Miss America 1955 (1st on TV) |
| September 12 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open |
| September 12 | Indians sweep Yankees at Municipal Stadium; largest AL crowd (86,563) |
| September 12 | White Sox win 90th game, 1st time they win this many since 1920 |
| September 12 | WLBZ TV channel 2 in Bangor, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 13 | Reds Ted Kluszewski scores a run in record 17 consecutive games |
| September 13 | WPBN TV channel 7 in Traverse City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 14 | B Britten's opera "Turn of the Screw," premieres in Venice |
| September 14 | Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record |
| September 14 | Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits New York City, $50 million damage |
| September 14 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| September 16 | CKLW TV channel 9 in Windsor, ON (CBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 17 | Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| September 18 | Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2) |
| September 18 | KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 18 | WLOS TV channel 13 in G'ville-Spartanburg, South Carolina (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| September 19 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Wichita Golf Open |
| September 20 | 1st FORTRAN computer program run |
| September 20 | 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution |
| September 20 | KETC TV channel 9 in Saint Louis, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 20 | Los Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," premieres in Angeles |
| September 20 | Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy |
| September 21 | 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned |
| September 21 | Kleffens appointed chairman of General Meeting U.N. |
| September 22 | Bkln Dodger Karl Spooner strikes out 15 New York Giants in his 1st game |
| September 24 | Tonight Show premieres on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later) |
| September 24 | Yankees tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning |
| September 25 | Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election |
| September 25 | Indians win AL record 111 games |
| September 25 | WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston, South Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 26 | A's defeats Yankees 8-6 in last game franchise will play in Philadelphia |
| September 26 | Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sinks in Strait of Tsugaru, 1172 die |
| September 26 | KODE TV channel 12 in Joplin, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 26 | KUTV TV channel 2 in Salt Lake City, UT (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 26 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Ardmore Golf Open |
| September 26 | Typhoon hits Japan - 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600 |
| September 26 | WANE TV channel 15 in Fort Wayne, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 26 | WCAX TV channel 3 in Burlington, VT (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 26 | Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd and Mickey Mantle plays shortstop |
| September 27 | School integration begins in Washington D.C. and Baltimore Md public schools |
| September 27 | Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" premieres |
| September 29 | "Barefoot Contessa" starring Ava Gardner premieres at the Capitol |
| September 29 | Bennekom soccer team forms in Bennekom |
| September 29 | KALB TV channel 5 in Alexandria, LA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 29 | "Masquerade Party," TV game Show; moves to ABC |
| September 29 | "Star is Born" starring Judy Garland and James Mason premieres |
| September 29 | Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive |
| September 30 | "Boy Friend" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 483 performances |
| September 30 | Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (sub), commissioned by the Navy |
| October 1 | British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation |
| October 2 | 8th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Detroit 2-2 at Detroit |
| October 2 | Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal |
| October 2 | New York Giants sweep Cleveland Indians, in 51st World Series |
| October 3 | "Father Knows Best" premieres |
| October 3 | KFVS TV channel 12 in Cape Girardeau, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 5 | Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern U.S. |
| October 7 | Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt |
| October 7 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem |
| October 9 | KTIV TV channel 4 in Sioux City, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| October 10 | Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops pulled out |
| October 11 | "On Your Toes" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 64 performances |
| October 11 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad caeli Reginam |
| October 13 | RP Smith/M Shulman's "Tender Trap," premieres in New York City |
| October 14 | Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53 |
| October 15 | Hurricane Hazel strikes U.S. and Canada, 348 die |
| October 15 | KLTV TV channel 7 in Tyler-Longview, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 17 | Philadelphia Eagle Adrian Burk passes for 7 touchdowns vs. Washington (49-21) |
| October 18 | Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US |
| October 18 | WBTW TV channel 13 in Florence, South Carolina (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 18 | WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (New York City) |
| October 19 | Egypt and Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs |
| October 19 | KAKE TV channel 10 in Wichita, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 20 | "Peter Pan" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 149 performances |
| October 21 | Dorothy Parker/Arnaud d'Usseau's "Ladies of the Corridor," premieres |
| October 21 | Indonesian troops land in New-Guinea |
| October 22 | West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| October 23 | Britain, England, France and U.S.S.R. agree to end occupation of Germany |
| October 23 | Pakistan governor-general Ghoelan Mohammed disbands parliament |
| October 23 | West Germany joins NATO |
| October 23 | WSAU TV channel 7 in Wausau, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 26 | Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine |
| October 26 | Walt Disney's 1st television program, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC |
| October 27 | B. O. Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black general in USAF |
| October 27 | President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem |
| October 27 | Walt Disney's 1st TV show, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC |
| October 27 | WISN TV channel 12 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 28 | Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature |
| October 28 | Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Philadelphia syndicate |
| October 28 | N Richard Nash' "Rainmaker," premieres in New York City |
| October 28 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway |
| October 29 | Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership |
| October 29 | Sweden begins experimental TV |
| October 30 | Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry |
| October 30 | U.S. Armed Forces end segregation of races |
| October 31 | Algerian Revolution against French begins |
| October 31 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Texas Golf Open |
| October 31 | KREM TV channel 2 in Spokane, WA (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 1 | Algeria begins rebellion against French rule |
| November 1 | General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba |
| November 1 | India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements |
| November 1 | KUON TV channel 12 in Lincoln, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 1 | U.S. Senate admonishes Joseph Mccarthy because of slander campaign |
| November 2 | Charles C. Diggs, Jr. elected Michigan's 1st black congressman |
| November 2 | J. S. Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC) |
| November 2 | Taiwan and U.S. sign military pact |
| November 3 | Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize |
| November 3 | Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born and Walter Bothe |
| November 4 | "Fanny" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 888 performances |
| November 4 | Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City |
| November 7 | Cleveland Browns' Chet Hanulak sets club record with 7 punt returns and win by their largest margin of victory (59) beating Washington 62-3 |
| November 7 | U.S. spy plane shot down North of Japan |
| November 8 | AL approves Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City |
| November 10 | Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising U.S. flag) dedicated in Arlington |
| November 10 | Lieutenant Colonel John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled |
| November 12 | Ellis Island, immigration station in New York Harbor, closed |
| November 14 | Egyptian President Naguib fired/state of emergency declared |
| November 15 | 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins |
| November 18 | Yankees trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada and Smith to Orioles for Turley, Larsen and Hunter as part of an 18 player deal |
| November 20 | KTRK TV channel 13 in Houston, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 22 | Humane Society forms |
| November 24 | Air Force One, 1st U.S. Presidential airplane, christened |
| November 24 | France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria |
| November 26 | Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey vs. Australia at Gabba |
| November 27 | 42nd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 26-25 |
| November 27 | "By the Beautiful Sea" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 270 performances |
| November 28 | 1st pro football game in Netherlands |
| November 28 | Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 80-yard punt |
| November 28 | KCKT (now KSNC) TV channel 2 in Great Bend, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| November 30 | 1st meteorite known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala) |
| November 30 | 20th Heisman Trophy Award: Alan Ameche, Wisconsin (FB) |
| November 30 | John Strodom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa |
| December 1 | Nationalist China and U.S. sign dike agreement |
| December 1 | Yankees send Miller, Segrist, Leppert and 2 minors to Orioles for Blayzka, Kryhoski, Johnson, Fridley and Del Guercio (completing 18 player deal) |
| December 2 | Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws |
| December 2 | "Hit the Trail" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| December 2 | U.S. Senate censures Joe McCarthy, Senator-R-Wisconsin, for "conduct that tends to bring Senate into dishonor and disrepute" |
| December 3 | Samuel Barber's "Prayers of Kierkegaard," premieres |
| December 3 | William Walton's opera "Troilus and Cressida," premieres in London |
| December 4 | "Hit the Trail" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| December 4 | "On Your Toes" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 64 performances |
| December 5 | KTEW (now KJRH) TV channel 2 in Tulsa, OK (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| December 6 | Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt |
| December 7 | Japanese government of Joshida, resigns |
| December 7 | KCTS TV channel 9 in Seattle, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| December 8 | Maxwell Anderson's "Bad Seed," premieres in New York City |
| December 8 | WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| December 9 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Swed Royal Music Acad |
| December 10 | Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize |
| December 10 | Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium |
| December 11 | Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium |
| December 11 | USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va |
| December 14 | WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley, WV (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| December 15 | Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons |
| December 15 | Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands |
| December 17 | 1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana) |
| December 17 | WEAU TV channel 13 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| December 21 | Dr. Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime) |
| December 24 | Council for the Children Protection forms in Netherlands |
| December 24 | Laos gains its independence |
| December 25 | WSFA TV channel 12 in Montgomery, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| December 26 | Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating Detroit 56-10 |
| December 26 | "The Shadow," airs for last time on radio |
| December 27 | Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Saint," premieres in New York City |
| December 27 | "Saint of Bleecker Street" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 92 performances |
| December 28 | 43rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Sydney (3-2) |
| December 28 | KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl, WA (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| December 29 | Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being |
| December 30 | 1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston) |
| December 30 | Harold Arlen/Truman Capotes musical premieres in New York City |
| December 30 | "House of Flowers" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 165 performances |
