The Korean War ends.

22 Aug.

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlevi returns to power as Prime Minister Mossadegh is ousted from the Iranian government.

25 Aug.

The British Trades Union Congress recommends a cautious approach to continuing the nationalization of British industry.

13 Sept.

Nikita Khrushchev is named first secretary of the Soviet Communist party's Central Committee.

26 Sept.

Pope Pius XII proclaims 1954 a Marian Year to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the definition of Immaculate Conception as Catholic dogma.

12 Oct.

Six thousand sugar workers strike in British Guiana (Guyana).

5 Nov.

Terrence Rattigan's play The Sleeping Prince opens at London's Phoenix Theater, with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.

6 Nov.

Masao Oki's Atomic Bomb symphonic fantasy is performed in Tokyo.

20 Nov.

U.S. Roman Catholics issue a statement condemning Communist efforts to suppress religion as "the bitterest, the bloodiest persecution in all history."

1 Dec.

AT&T announces it will lay the first telephone cable...