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- From top to bottom, left to right: the Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends with a decisive Vietnamese victory over French forces; Jonas Salk announces the development of the polio vaccine; the 1954 FIFA World Cup is held in Switzerland, with West Germany winning its first title; the Geneva Conference ends the First Indochina War and divides Vietnam at the 17th parallel; the Algerian War begins with the Toussaint Rouge attacks; the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état topples President Jacobo Árbenz with U.S. support; Hurricane Hazel strikes the Caribbean, the U.S., and Canada, causing widespread destruction; the 1954 Blons avalanches in Austria kill dozens of people; and Castle Romeo is detonated as part of the U.S. nuclear testing program in the Pacific. (en)
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