McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy, during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army, saying, "Have you no sense of decency?"[15]
Parliamentary elections are held in Iraq; the Constitutional Union Party remains the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies of Iraq.[16]
An IRA unit carries out a daylight arms raid on the British Army's Gough Barracks in Armagh, Northern Ireland. In twenty minutes, the IRA men loaded a cattle truck with 340 rifles, 50 Sten guns, 12 Bren guns, and a volley of smaller arms and ammunition, and drove it away without anyone being injured.[19]
Born:Allan Lamb, South African-born England cricketer and sportscaster, in Langebaanweg;[36]Ilan Ramon, Israeli fighter pilot and astronaut, in Ramat Gan (died 2003)[37]
Hurricane Alice makes landfall in South Texas, United States, before moving into northern Mexico and causing substantial flooding and other damage in the area of the Pecos River and Rio Grande. Over 50 people are known to have been killed.[47]
Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz[49] resigns following a CIA-sponsored military coup d'etat, triggering a bloody civil war that continues for more than 35 years.
The Battle of Mang Yang Pass (see June 24) ends in victory for the Việt Minh, resulting in the end of the First Indochina War and the final defeat of the French.
^"Dos suizos y un belga" [Two Swiss and a Belgian] (PDF) (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo. 14 June 1954. p. 1. Archived(PDF) from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2012.