Editing 1954

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== Events ==
* February 25 - [[Adib Shishakli]] is overthrown as President of Syria.
* March 1 - [[Castle Bravo]]: the United States tests its first lithium deuteride fueled thermonuclear weapon at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
* March 4 - [[Todor Zhivkov]] is named General Secretary of the [[Bulgarian Communist Party]].
* March 13 - The [[KGB]] is founded to serve as the [[secret police]] of the Soviet Union, replacing the [[MVD]] in that capacity. [[Ivan Serov]] is appointed chairman.
* March 13 to May 7 - The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ is fought.
* May 4 to 7 - [[Alfredo Stroessner]] seizes control of Paraguay following a successful coup.
* May 25 - [[Ho Chi Minh]] launches a campaign of land reform in North Vietnam.
* June 18 to 27 - [[Operation PBSuccess]]: at the behest of the [[United Fruit Company]], the CIA installs [[Carlos Castillo Armas]] as the military dictator of Guatemala, deposing democratically-elected leader Jacobo Árbenz.
* August 1 - End of the First Indochina War. 
* September 3 - The [[Communist Party of China]] takes control of the the Yijiangshan Islands from Taiwan.
* September 27 - [[Zhou Enlai]] is named the first Premier of the People's Republic of China.
* November 1 - Beginning of the [[Algerian War of Independence]].
* November 30 - [[Daniel François Malan]] steps down as Prime Minister of South Africa. [[Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom]] is appointed as his successor.
* December 2 - [[Joseph McCarthy]] is censured by the United States Senate.
* Unknown - [[William Unek]] commits his first killing spree near Mahagi in the Belgian Congo, killing 21 people with an axe.

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* February 6 - [[Paul Hill]]
* February 26 - [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]]
* March 21 - [[Prayuth Chan-o-cha]]
* April 5 - [[David Maust]]
* May 11 - [[Daniel Conahan]]
* May 26 - [[Danny Rolling]]
* June 17 - [[Pedro Rodrigues Filho]]
* July 28 - [[Hugo Chávez]]
* August 30 - [[Alexander Lukashenko]]
* September 8 - [[Mark Foley]]
* September 21 - [[Shinzo Abe]]
* September 28 - [[Simon Bikindi]]
* November 2 - [[August Kreis]]
* November 10 - [[Henry Francis Hayes]]
* November 19 - [[Abdel Fattah el-Sisi]]
* November 26 - [[Velupillai Prabhakaran]]
* December 31 - [[Eric Schneiderman]]
* Unknown - [[Augustin Bizimana]]
* Unknown - [[Barry Bennell]]
* Unknown - [[Sylvestre Mudacumura]]

=== Victim births ===
* February 27 - Roberta Parks
* November 16 - Jon Garth Murray
* November 25 - Marise Chiverella 
* December 13 - Dolores Della Penna
* Unknown - Donna Manson

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* April 18 - [[A.O. Neville]]
* July 10 - [[Calogero Vizzini]]
* August 24 - [[Getúlio Vargas]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* July 4 - [[Murder of Marilyn Sheppard|Marilyn Sheppard]]