Editing 1954 (section)

===June===
{{Main|June 1954}}
* [[June 6]] &ndash; The grand opening of the [[Statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, Moscow|sculpture of Yuriy Dolgorukiy]] takes place in Moscow (this statue is one of the main monuments of Moscow).
* [[June 7]] &ndash; English cryptanalyst, mathematician and computer scientist [[Alan Turing]], age 41, commits suicide by cyanide poisoning.
* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[McCarthyism]]: [[Joseph N. Welch]], special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Joseph McCarthy]], during hearings on whether [[Communism]] has infiltrated the Army, saying, "Have you, at long last, no decency?"<ref>Robert D. Marcus and Anthony Marcus, [http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6444/ ""Have You No Sense of Decency": The Army-McCarthy Hearings"], ''History Matters''</ref> The exchange results in the decline of McCarthy’s popularity.
* [[June 14]] &ndash; The words "under God" are added to the United States [[Pledge of Allegiance (United States)|Pledge of Allegiance]].
* [[June 15]] &ndash; The [[UEFA]] (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in [[Basel]], Switzerland.
* [[June 17]] &ndash; A [[1954 Guatemalan coup d'état|CIA-engineered military coup]] occurs in [[Guatemala]].
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Pierre Mendès France]] becomes prime minister of France.
* [[June 22]] 
** [[Sarah Mae Flemming]] is expelled from a bus in South Carolina, for sitting in a white-only section.
** [[Parker–Hulme murder case]]: [[Pauline Parker]], 16 and her friend [[Juliet Hulme]], 15, bludgeon Parker's mother to death using a brick, at [[Victoria Park, Christchurch|Victoria Park]] in New Zealand.
* [[June 27]]
** [[Guatemala]]n President [[Jacobo Árbenz]] steps down in a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]-sponsored [[1954 Guatemalan coup d'état|military coup]], triggering a bloody civil war that continues for more than 35 years.
** The world's first [[nuclear power|atomic power station]] opens at [[Obninsk]], near Moscow.