1955

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Jan. 7: Marian Anderson at the Met

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Events of 1955

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January

January 2 - José Antonio Remón Cantera, president of Panama, is murdered at a racetrack in Panama City.
January 7 - Marian Anderson is the first African American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
January 18 - Battle of Yijiangshan started in China. Fighting lasted until January 20 with a Communist victory.
January 22 - Pentagon announces plan to develop ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) armed with nuclear weapons.
January 23 - The Sutton Coldfield rail crash took place on that day.
January 25 - The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. Until then, despite the end of World War II, the USSR was formally at war with Germany.
January 28 - The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Formosa from the People's Republic of China.

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January 22: ICBM

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February

February 12 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam.
February 16 - Nearly 100 die in fire at a home for the elderly in Yokohama, Japan
February 22 - In Chicago's Democratic primary, Mayor Martin H. Kennelly loses to the head of the Cook County Democratic Party, Richard J. Daley, 364,839 to 264,775

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March

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March 20: Bill Haley.

March 5 - WBBJ signs on the air in the United States as WDXI.
March 7 - The 1954 Broadway musical version of Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin, is presented on television for the first time by NBC - also the first time that a stage musical is presented in its entirety on TV exactly as performed onstage. The program gains the largest viewership of a TV special up to that time, and becomes one of the first great television classics.
March 17 - The Richard Riot occurs in Montreal.
March 19 - KXTV signs on the air in the United States
March 20 - Blackboard Jungle opens in movie theaters featuring the song Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and his Comets, thus propelling Rock and Roll as a musical genre. Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to the song.

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April

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April 12: polio

April 5
- Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- Richard J. Daley defeats Robert Merrian to become mayor of Chicago by a vote of 708,222 to 581,555.
April 6 - Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
April 11 - The Taiwanese Kuomintang sabotaged the "Kashmir Princess", killing 16 but fails to assassinate People's Republic of China leader Zhou Enlai.
April 12 - The Salk polio vaccine is introduced.
April 15 - Ray Kroc opens a McDonald's fast food restaurant; it is the company's ninth since it was founded in 1940, but Kroc would later take over the company and oversee its worldwide expansion.

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April 15: McDonald's

April 18 - Imre Nagy, Premier of Hungary, is ousted for being too moderate.

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May

May 5 - West Germany becomes a sovereign state.
May 9 - West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
May 11 - Japanese ferry Shiun Maru sinks off of Takamatsu, Shikoku. 168 are killed.
May 14 - Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence treaty called the Warsaw Pact.

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June

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June 11: Le Mans.

June 11 - Eighty-three are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide in the 1955 Le Mans disaster.
June 13 - Mir Mine, the first diamond mine of the USSR, is discovered.
June 16 - Lady and the Tramp, Walt Disney's fifteenth animated feature film, debuts in U.S. movie theaters.

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July

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July 17: Disneyland opens.

July 13 - Ruth Ellis (b. 1926) is hanged for murder in London - the last woman ever to be executed in the United Kingdom.
July 17 - Disneyland opens, in Anaheim, California.
July 18
- The first atomic-generated electrical power is sold commercially.
- Illinois's Governor William Stratton signs Loyalty Oath Act that mandates all public employees take a loyalty oath or lose their jobs.
- Beginning of Geneva Summit between US, USSR, UK, and France.
July 19 - Estonian Television (ETV) begins broadcasting.
July 23 - Geneva Summit between US, USSR, UK, and France ends.
July 27 - El Al Airlines Flight 402 from Vienna to Tel Aviv-Yafo via Istanbul shot down over Bulgaria. All passengers and crew aboard the Lockheed Constellation were killed.
July 28 - The first Interlingua congress in Tours, France, leads to the founding of the Union Mundial pro Interlingua.

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August

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Aug.19 Diane

August 19 - Hurricane Diane hits the northeast United States, killing 200 and causing over $1 billion in damage.
August 20 - Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.
August 22 - 11 schoolchildren were killed, when their school bus was hit by a freight train, in Spring City, Tennessee.
August 25 - The last Soviet forces leave Austria.
August 27 - The first copy of a Guinness World Records book was printed and sold.
August 28 - Emmett Till is killed in Money, Mississippi

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September

September 6 - Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek minority is the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
September 10 - Gunsmoke debuts on CBS.
September 15 - Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is published in Paris by Olympia Press.
September 19
- President of Argentina Juan Peron is ousted in a military coup.
- Hurricane Hilda kills 200 in Mexico.
September 22 - Independent (Commercial) Television begins broadcasting in UK .

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Sept.30: James Dean.

September 24 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers coronary thrombosis while on vacation in Denver.
September 30 - Actor James Dean killed when his Porsche 550 Spyder collides with another automobile near Cholame, California.

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October

October 4 - The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is released from prison in Seoul, Korea.
October 20
- First film footage of Elvis Presley in a planned film short about Cleveland disc jockey Bill Randle
- Cardiff is proclaimed as the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom
October 26 - After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares its permanent neutrality.
October 26 - Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president.

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November

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Oct.26: Austria free.

November 1 - Time bomb explodes aboard a United Airlines DC-6 killing 44 above Longmont, Colorado.
November 3 - 5 and a half mile Rimutaka Railway tunnel opens in New Zealand
November 5 - Racial segregation is forbidden on trains and buses in US interstate commerce. Emmett Brown invents flux capacitor, which later makes time travel possible.
November 12 - The Bugs Bunny cartoon Roman-Legion Hare debuts in the USA.
November 23 - The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.