In 1954, as the term of the first National Assembly were about to expire, the Judicial Yuan ruled that the expired seats of the National Assembly would continue in power until the respective delegate region elections could be held.

Those dates were chosen because in 1954 the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unlawful and 1968 is the year of Martin Luther King's assassination.

In 1954, the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that segregated schools violate the Constitution.

From 1870 to 1954, Paraguay was ruled by 44 different men, 24 of whom were forced from office.

In 1954, General Alfredo Stroessner took advantage of the strong link between the armed forces and the Colorado Party to overthrow the government ; he ruled until 1989.

In 1954, the US Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that public school segregation was unconstitutional.

In Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ), the US Supreme Court ruled that publicly supported schools had to be desegregated.

During the Fifth Republic, founded in 1958 amid the troubles brought by the Algerian War ( 1954 – 62 ), France was ruled by successive right-wing administrations until 1981.

He held the post of Minister of the Interior from 1950 to 1954, when Bavaria was ruled by a CSU-SPD coalition.

At the same time, the U. S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown vs Board of Education ( 1954 ) overturned racial segregation laws for public schools that had been in place in a number of states since the late 19th century, and ruled that separate but equal schools were " inherently unequal ".

Egypt was ruled autocratically by three presidents over the following six decades, by Nasser from 1954 until his death in 1970, by Anwar Sadat from 1971 until his assassination 1981, and by Hosni Mubarak from 1981 until his resignation in the face of the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

The couple had a daughter, Mary Jacqueline ( born 1949 ), but their marriage ended in divorce in 1954, though the Mexican divorce was ruled invalid in 1956.

On May 17, 1954, the Court, in a unanimous decision, ruled that the segregation of schoolchildren by race was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

On December 25, 1954, he gave an interview to The New York Times in which he characterized the situation in Yugoslavia as " totalitarian ", adding that his country was ruled by " undemocratic forces " and " reactionary elements ".

* 1954, Case of Brown v. Board of Board of Education: ruled against " separate but equal " citing the arguments of Charles Sumner in his later case dealing with Sarah Roberts and finally had integrated schools nationwide.

He was initially particularly close to the leader of the third and fourth coups, Adib al-Shishakli, who effectively ruled Syria from 1951 until 1954.

The Abbasi family ruled over the State for more than 200 years ( 1748 to 1954 ).

In July 1954, he issued a pastoral letter exhorting Illinois Catholics to abstain from the assembly of the World Council of Churches at Evanston, writing, " The Catholic Church does not ... enter into any organization in which the delegates of many sects sit down in council or conference as equals ... She does not allow her children to engage in any activity ... based on the false assumption that Roman Catholics, too, are still searching for the truth of Christ ," to the dismay of several Protestant and ecumenical figures.

At the 1954 National Convention, the delegates amended Zeta Beta Tau's constitution, ritual and internal procedures both in theory and in practice to eliminate sectarianism as a qualification for membership.

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

On 10 October 1951 Grenada held its first general elections on the basis of universal adult suffrage-United Labour won 6 of the 8 elected seats on the Legislative Council in both the 1951 and 1954 elections.

FRACP ), elected him to Honorary Fellowships, and the Australian Academy of Science, for which he supported its establishment in 1954, made him a fellow ( FAAS ) in 1958.

In 1926, he founded Fianna Fáil, and was head of government ( President of the Executive Council, later Taoiseach ) from 1932 to 1948, 1951 to 1954, and 1957 to 1959, when he resigned after being elected as President of Ireland.

He was subsequently elected Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1954, and Governor in 1958 at age 36.

In 1953, Ben-Gurion announced his intention to withdraw from government and was replaced by Moshe Sharett, who was elected the second Prime Minister of Israel in January 1954.

He was elected to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1954.

Orville Freeman was elected the state's first DFL governor in 1954.

The seeming clear success of the operations to overthrow Iranian populist leader Mossadegeh in 1953, and overthrow the democratically elected, left-leaning President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán in Guatemala in 1954 was not without their crisis moments in the White House.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1954.

In 1942, he was elected state district court judge for Bienville, Claiborne, and Jackson parishes, a position that he held until January 1, 1954, when he became a judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals based in Shreveport.

He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on December 16, 1954 and handed over office on December 31, 1966.

He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 16 December 1954.

He was elected to the Federal Council on December 10, 1940 and handed over office on December 31, 1954.

He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on December 11, 1947, and handed over office on December 31, 1954.

A number of popular ministries were elected and fell and in 1954, the Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress launched a campaign for the merger of the Tamil speaking regions of Southern Travancore with the neighbouring area of Madras.

In 1954, following the death of Furtwängler, Karajan was elected music director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and subsequently curtailed his work with the Philharmonia.

In 1954, the democratically elected Guatemalan government of Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was toppled by U. S .- backed forces led by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas who invaded from Honduras.

Between 1939 and 1954, less than 2 percent of the population elected six members in the Legislative Council of thirteen members.

He was elected president of the National Cartoonists Society in 1954, serving until 1956, and was also the first strip cartoonist to be invited to contribute originals to the Library of Congress.

Franklin Pierce ( 1826 ) was America's fourteenth President ; Melville Weston Fuller ( 1853 ) served as Chief Justice of the United States ; Thomas Brackett Reed ( 1860 ) was twice elected Speaker of the House of Representatives ; and Wallace H. White, Jr. ( 1899 ) and George J. Mitchell ( 1954 ) both served as Majority Leader of the United States Senate.

Being a vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress since 1954, she was elected acting executive chairman of it on 30 November 1976 replacing Zhu De, who died on 6 July.

He was elected Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies for the fourth time on first December 1953, remaining until the Chamber was dissolved on 29 April 1954.

He participated in Nuri Al-Saeed ’ s twelfth cabinet as Minister of Agriculture ( 3 August 1954 ), then was elected another time to the Speakership of the Chamber of Deputies on 16 September 1954 ; was re-elected as Speaker on first of December 1954 ; again on first of December 1955 and on first of December 1956.