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1955 is a common year starting on Saturday.
Events
January-April
January 2 - Panama president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated.
January 19 - The Scrabble board game debuts.
February 8 - Nikolai Bulganin ousts Georgi Malenkov
February 13 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
February 23 - First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
March 2:
King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit.
Severe flooding in North and Western Australia – 200 humans and tens of thousands of sheep dead, 44.000 homeless
March 25 - United States Customs seizes Allen Ginsberg's Howl as obscene.
April 5 - Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health
April 7 - Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Bandung Conference
May-July
May 5 - Cold War: West Germany becomes a sovereign nation
May 9 - Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
May 14 - Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union sign a mutual-defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
May 15 - First ascent of Makalu, fifth highest mountain.
May 20 – Peace talks with Mau Mau in Kenya fail again
May 25 - First ascent of Kanchenjunga, 3rd highest mountain.
Assassination of Florida judge Curtis Chillingworth
June 11 - On the Le Mans racetrack, three cars crash into spectator's grandstand - 70 dead, more than 100 injured
June 20 - Very long (7min 08sec) total solar eclipse visible in Southeast Asia. During the entire Second Millennium, only seven total solar eclipses exceeded seven minutes of totality. This was the next to last.
July 17 - Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California.
July 27 - The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends (started on May 9, 1945).
August-October
August 19 - In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
August 20 - Eight World Scout Jamboree opens in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.
August 20 - In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria, raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
August 27 - The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records
August 28 - Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, is murdered in Money, Mississippi, by white men angered because he whistled at a white woman while buying groceries.
September 11 - Dedication of the first Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple.
September 14 - Konrad Adenauer travels to Moscow to establish diplomatic relations and to negotiate for the release of the remaining German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union
September 16 - A military coup in Argentina deposes Juan Peron.
October 2 - The ENIAC computer is deactivated.
October 7 - The last German prisoners of war are released from the Soviet Union
October 23 - The Saarland is once again part of West Germany, following a referendum
October 26 - Austrian independence is declared again forming the Second Republic with the declaration of everlasting neutrality and the state constitution.
October 29 - The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
November-December
November 1 - The first international solar energy conference is held in Tucson, Arizona
November 1 - DC-6B explodes in mid air after takeoff in Denver, Colorado - 44 dead (later proves to be a time bomb placed by John Gilbert Graham)
November 2 – Entry into catacombs of Paris becomes illegal and punishable by a fine
November 20 - Train crash near Didcot, Oxfordshire - 10 dead, 99 injured
November 22 - Soviet Union nuclear test in Siberia.
November 23 - The Cocos Islands are transferred from United Kingdom to Australian control.
November 24 - Fokker F27 first flight.
December 1 - American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws (Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr. later led the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott as a result).
December 7 - Clement Attlee resigns as leader of the Labour Party - his successor is Hugh Gaitskell.
December 19 - Sudanese Parliament declares independence.
December 31 - General Motors becomes the first American corporation to make sales of over one billion dollars in a year.
Unknown date
Dick Bruna draws Miffy for the first time.
Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of Britain for the second time.
Mattachine Society, one of the first gay rights organizations, is founded in the City of New York.
Maurice Wilkes publishes a description of microprogramming in IEEE Spectrum.
Year in topic
1955 in film
Back to the Future
Marty
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955 in literature
1955 in music
1955 in sports
1955 in television
April 1 - The DuMont Network drastically cuts back its programming.
September 28 - The First World Series game broadcast in color.
The Honeymooners premieres, starring Jackie Gleason, Art Carney and Audrey Meadows.
Lawrence Welk Show debuts, and will run until 1982.
The Mickey Mouse Club debuts, featuring "Mouseketeer" Annette Funicello, and will run until 1959.
Births
January-February
January 6 - Rowan Atkinson, comedian, actor
January 12 - Rockne O'Bannon, writer, producer
January 13 - Jay McInerney, writer
January 17 - Steve Earle, musician
January 18 - Kevin Costner, actor
January 19 - Simon Rattle, English conductor
January 26 - Eddie Van Halen, musician
February 8 - John Grisham, novelist
February 10 - Greg Norman, golfer
February 12 - Arsenio Hall, actor, talk show host
February 19 - Jeff Daniels, actor
February 20 - Kelsey Grammer, actor
February 23 - Howard Jones, musician
February 24 - Alain Prost, Formula One driver
February 24 - Steve Jobs, computer pioneer
March-April
March 5 - Penn Jillette, magician, comedian
March 7 - Tommy Kramer, American football player
March 15 - Dee Snider, singer
March 16 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxing world champion
March 17 - Gary Sinise, actor
March 19 - Bruce Willis, actor
March 22 - Pete Sessions, U.S. politician
March 23 - Moses Malone, basketball player
March 28 - Reba McEntire, country music singer, actress
March 29 - Earl Campbell, American football star
March 31 - Angus Young, musician
April 1 - Ronnie Burk, surrealist and AIDS activist
April 6 - Michael Rooker, actor
April 11 - Kevin Brady, American politician
April 16 - Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg
April 23 - Tony Miles, chess player
April 29 - Kate Mulgrew, actress
May
May 3 - David Hookes, cricketer (d. 2004)
May 6 - Tom Bergeron, television host
May 9 - Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
May 10 - Chris Berman, sports anchor
May 10 - Mark David Chapman, assassin
May 10 - Ashoka Prasad,scientist
May 11 - Mark Herndon, Alabama (band)
May 16 - Olga Korbut, gymnast
May 16 - Jack Morris, baseball pitcher
May 16 - Hazel O'Connor, British singer
May 16 - Debra Winger, actress
May 17 - Bill Paxton, actor
May 18 - Chow Yun-Fat, actor
May 20 - Zbigniew Preisner, film composer
May 26 - Morimoto Masaharu, Japanese chef (Iron Chef)
May 26 - Doris Dörrie, actor and screenplay writer
May 28 - John McGeoch, musician, (d. 2004)
May 30 - Topper Headon, musician
June-December
June 2 - Dana Carvey, actor, comedian
June 7 - Tim Richmond, NASCAR race car driver (d. 1989)
June 8 - Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
June 20 - Tor Norretranders, science author
June 25 - Terry Chimes, musician
June 26 - Mick Jones, musician
June 27 - Isabelle Adjani, actress
August 4 - Billy Bob Thornton, actor
August 19 - Peter Gallagher, actor
September 10 - Pat Mastelotto, musician
September 16 - Robin Yount, baseball player
September 29 - Jon Backstrom, Internet engineer
October 7 - Yo-Yo Ma, cellist
October 17 - Mae Jemison, astronaut
October 26 - Mark Welch, inventor
October 28 - Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft
November 4 - Matti Vanhanen, prime minister of Finland
November 6 - Maria Shriver, journalist, first lady of California
November 7 - Detlef Ultsch, first German judo world champion
November 13 - Whoopi Goldberg, actress, comedienne, singer
November 23 - Steven Brust, fantasy author
November 24 - Ian Botham, English cricketer
December 3 - Steven Culp, actor
December 10 - Warren Gaebel, evangelist / Bible teacher
December 12 - Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek politician and business woman.
December 15 - Paul Simonon, musician
December 17 - Brad Davis, basketball player
December 18 - Ray Liotta, actor
December 21 - Jane Kaczmarek, actress
Deaths
January 15 - Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter (b. 1900)
January 21 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
March 11 - Sir Alexander Fleming, British discoverer of penicillin (b. 1881)
March 12 - Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)
April 7 - Theda Bara, silent film actress (b. 1885)
April 18 - Albert Einstein, German physicist (b. 1879)
May 10 - Tommy Burns, American boxer (b. 1881)
May 16 - James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)
May 26 - Alberto Ascari, Italian F1 race car driver (b. 1918)
August 2 - Wallace Stevens, American poet (b. 1879)
August 5 - Carmen Miranda, Portuguese singer, actress (b. 1909)
August 28 - Emmett Till, teenage victim of anti-black murder
September 30 - James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
October 1 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood (b. 1880)
October 9 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna 1932-1955
November 4 - Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
November 5 - Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1882)
November 12 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
November 27 - Arthur Honegger, Swiss composer (b. 1982)
December 6 - Honus Wagner, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1874)
Physics - Willis Eugene Lamb, - Polykarp Kusch
Chemistry - Vincent du Vigneaud
Medicine- Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell
Literature - Halldór Kiljan Laxness
Peace - not awarded
Category:1955
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