of Education (347 US 483 1954): The U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that segregated schools are unconstitutional. The Royal Commission on the Petrov Affair in Australia begins its inquiry. Adnan Menderes of the Democratic Party forms the new (21st) government of Turkey. May 20 – Chiang Kai-shek is re-elected as the president of the Republic of China, by the National Assembly. May 22 – The common Nordic Labour Market act is signed. May 26 – A fire on board the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Bennington, off Narragansett Bay, Massachusetts, kills 103 sailors. May 29 1954 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a decreased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by H.V. Evatt. The election has come shortly after the Petrov Affair, arguably helping the Government survive what was initially predicted to be a defeat. Creation and first meeting of the Bilderberg Group. Diane Leather becomes the first woman to run a sub-five minute mile, in Birmingham, England. June June 6 – The grand opening of the sculpture of Yuriy Dolgorukiy takes place in Moscow (this statue is one of the main monuments of Moscow). June 7 – English cryptanalyst, mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, age 41, commits suicide by cyanide poisoning. June 9 – McCarthyism: Joseph N. 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, at long last, no decency?" June 14 – The words "under God" are added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance. June 15 – The UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland. June 17 – A CIA-engineered military coup occurs in Guatemala. June 18 – Pierre Mendès France becomes prime minister of France. June 22 Sarah Mae Flemming is expelled from a bus in South Carolina, for sitting in a white-only section. Parker–Hulme murder case: Pauline Parker, 16 and her friend Juliet Hulme, 15, bludgeon Parker's mother to death using a brick, at Victoria Park in New Zealand. June 27 Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz steps down in a CIA-sponsored military coup, triggering a bloody civil war that continues for more than 35 years. The world's first atomic power station opens at Obninsk, near Moscow. July July 1 The Common Nordic Labor Market Act comes into effect. The United States officially begins using the international unit of