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Govt repts US agrees to grant mil aid unconditionally after 13 mos of talks; State Dept confirms accord; team to survey needs; Iraq reptdly agrees to use arms only in self-defense or for internal security; map; reaction by Israel, Pakistan
Sen Ferguson repts Sen may delay funds for Fed housing agencies pending completion of hearings; holds FHA officials cannot put all blame for abuses on law; Justice Dept repts it cannot prosecute bldrs who got excessive loans because FHA did not rely on bldrs appraisals
3 Bell Telephone Labs scientists develop solar battery of silicon strips which converts radiation into electricity; rept achieving 6% efficiency which compares favorably with other power sources; structure and potentialities of device discussed
HANOI, Vietnam, April 25 -- Vietminh artillery pounded Dienbiephu with new fury today. A Vietminh broadcast heard in Hanoi warned that a final assault on the battered fortress was not far away.
Brit Cabinet and Cs/S conf on aid to French; moves toward mil intervention denied
1954Tatyana Fomina, Estonian chess player[†]
Tatjana Fomina is an Estonian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster and twice European senior women's champion.
1954Alan Hinkes, English mountaineer and explorer[†]
Alan Hinkes OBE is an English Himalayan high-altitude mountaineer from Northallerton in North Yorkshire. He is the first British mountaineer to claim all 14 Himalayan eight-thousanders, a feat he completed on 30 May 2005.
1954The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.[†]
The Geneva Conference was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War and involved several nations. It took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 26 April to 20 July 1954. The part of the conference on the Korean question ended without adopting any declarations or proposals and so is generally considered less relevant. On the other hand, the Geneva Accords that dealt with the dismantling of French Indochina proved to have long-lasting repercussions. Three agreements about French Indochina, covering Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, were signed on 21 July 1954 and took effect two days later.
1954The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.[†]
Jonas Edward Salk was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York and New York University School of Medicine.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]