1954
ID: 1684
Eli Lilly & Company develops capacity to produce LSD in 'tonnage quantities'
ID: 1684
1954
ID: 1685
Operation Midnight Climax begins - CIA brothels in San Francisco for LSD experiments
ID: 1685
1954
ID: 1686
Tibor Rosenbaum listed as managing director of Swiss-Liberian Finance Corporation
ID: 1686
1954
ID: 1687
Paris Agreements: West Germany joins NATO; 20,000+ former SS officers declared eligible for military service
ID: 1687
1954
ID: 1688
White selected by Commissioner Anslinger for MKULTRA work - 'disgruntled employee' with 'truth drug' experience
ID: 1688
1954
ID: 1689
Secret agreements with Sweden and other allies for intelligence cooperation
ID: 1689
1954
ID: 1690
CERN Convention signed, granting immunity from legal process to international physics organization
ID: 1690
1954
ID: 1691
Wilhelm Reich's The Sexual Revolution banned by US court order
ID: 1691
1954
ID: 1692
First nuclear power plant generates electricity using mathematical reactor control theory
ID: 1692
1954
ID: 1693
The first silicon solar cell is developed at Bell Labs
ID: 1693
1954
ID: 1694
Vinyl flooring (PVC) begins widespread use in homes
ID: 1694
1954
ID: 4262
Remington Rand announces UNIVAC II with magnetic core memory replacing mercury delay lines - major performance improvement
ID: 4262
1954
ID: 4303
IBM begins developing FORTRAN under John Backus - first high-level programming language for science
ID: 4303