Editing 1954 (section)

===July===
{{Main|July 1954}}
* [[July 1]]
** The [[Nordic Passport Union|Common Nordic Labor Market Act]] comes into effect.
** The United States officially begins using the international unit of the nautical mile, equal to 6,076.11549&nbsp;ft. or 1,852 meters.
* [[July 4]]
**[[Rationing in the United Kingdom|Food rationing in Great Britain]] ends, with the lifting of restrictions on sale and purchase of meat, 14 years after it began early in [[World War II]], and nearly a decade after the war's end.
**[[1954 FIFA World Cup Final|"Miracle of Bern"]]: [[Germany national football team|West Germany]] beats [[Hungary national football team|Hungary]] [[1954 FIFA World Cup Final|3–2]] to win the [[1954 FIFA World Cup]].
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[Peter Thomson (golfer)|Peter Thomson]] becomes the first Australian to win the [[The Open Championship|British Open Golf Championship]].
* [[July 15]]
** The [[Boeing 367-80]] (or Dash 80), prototype of the [[Boeing 707]] series, makes its maiden flight.
** [[Juan Manuel Fangio|Juan Fangio]], [[Argentina|Argentine]] driver for German [[Grand Prix motor racing|Grand Prix]] team [[Mercedes-Benz]], makes a new fastest lap of the [[Silverstone Circuit]] in England, with an average speed of 100.35&nbsp;mph, the previous record being 100.16&nbsp;mph.
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[First Indochina War]]: [[Viet Minh]] troops successfully ambush the armoured French column 'G.M.&nbsp;42' in the [[Battle of Chu Dreh Pass]] in the [[Central Highlands (Vietnam)|Central Highlands]]. It is the last battle of the war.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fall| first1= Bernard| title=Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina| date=2005| publisher=Stackpole Military History |author-link=Bernard Fall|page=240|isbn=9780811732369}}</ref>
* [[July 19]] &ndash; Release of [[Elvis Presley]]'s first single, a cover of "[[That's All Right]]", by [[Sun Records]] (recorded [[July 5]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee]]).
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[First Indochina War]]: The [[Geneva Conference (1954)|Geneva Conference]] sends French forces to the south, and Vietnamese forces to the north, of a ceasefire line, and calls for elections to decide the government for all of [[Vietnam]] by July 1956. Failure to abide by the terms of the agreement leads to the establishment of the de facto regimes of [[North Vietnam]] and [[South Vietnam]], and the [[Vietnam War]].
* [[July 29]] &ndash; The construction of Yad Vashem started in Jerusalem. It is an official memorial center to commemorate the victims of the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis and their accomplices in Europe.
* [[July 29]] &ndash; ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', the first of three volumes in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy novel, ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', is published in London.
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[1954 Italian expedition to K2]]: Italian mountaineers [[Lino Lacedelli]] and [[Achille Compagnoni]] become the first to reach the summit of the second highest mountain in the world, in the [[Karakoram]] range.