Bomb attacks against British installations continue (from March 29) as EOKA starts an independence campaign against British rule in the Crown colony of Cyprus.
A general election is held in Singapore, the Labour Front gains the most seats and a working majority; its chairman, David Marshall, becomes Singapore's first Chief Minister.
Duncan Edwards, the 18-year-old Manchester United left-half, becomes the youngest full England international in a 7–2 win over Scotland at Wembley. Dudley-born Edwards is already being tipped by many observers to become the next England captain upon the eventual retirement of Billy Wright.
Ahmad bin Yahya, Iman of Yemen, is deposed by a military coup d'état in favor of his brother Abdullah, the Foreign Minister, and held as a prisoner in his palace. Three days later, a force led by the Crown Prince Muhammad al-Badr frees the Iman and puts back him on the throne.
A World War II Lincoln bomber crashes into Mount Superbus, Australia, in the early hours the morning, during a medical evacuation of a sick baby from Townsville, Queensland, to Eagle Farm airfield in Brisbane. The crew of four RAAF personnel and the two passengers are all killed.
Jonas Salk's polio vaccine, having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the US Food and Drug Administration.
The Middle East Treaty Organization (MENTO) is formed by Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, with the objective of containing the Soviet Union (USSR) by having a line of strong states along the USSR's southwestern frontier.
A Burma-Japanese peace treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954, comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries that has not existed for a long time.
The Bandung Conference opens in Indonesia. The twenty-nine participating countries represent nearly one-quarter of the Earth's land surface and a total population of 1.5 billion people.
Died:Albert Einstein, 76, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
After twelve hours of debate in the Victorian Legislative Assembly on Henry Bolte's motion of no-confidence against the Labor government of John Cain in the Legislative Assembly, eleven members who have been expelled from the Labor Party cross the floor to support Bolte's motion. With his government defeated, Cain obtains a dissolution of parliament later that day.
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