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'''1955''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMLV''') was a
common year starting on Saturday of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events
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 22 - Pentagon announces plan to develop ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) armed with nuclear weapons
*
January 28 -
Congress authorizes
President Eisenhower to use force to protect
Formosa from
Red China.
February
*
February 8 -
Nikolai Bulganin becomes
Soviet Premier.
*
February 12 -
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to
South Vietnam.
*
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
March
*
March 19 -
KXTV signs on the air in the
United States
*
March 20 - ''
Blackboard Jungle opens'' in 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.
April
*
April 5 -
Winston Churchill resigns as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
*
April 5 -
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 12 - The Salk
polio vaccine is introduced.
*
April 15 -
Ray Kroc starts the
McDonald's fast food restaurant chain.
*
April 18 -
Imre Nagy,
Premier of
Hungary, is ousted for being too moderate.
May
*
May 5 -
West Germany becomes a
Sovereignty sovereign state.
*
May 9 - West Germany joins
NATO.
*
May 14 - The
Warsaw Pact is formed by the
communist states of
Eastern Europe and the
USSR.
*
May 31 - The
United States Supreme Court orders school
Racial integration integration at "all deliberate speed"
June
*
June 11 - Eighty-three are killed and at least 100 are injured after an
Austin-Healey and a
Mercedes-Benz collide at the
24 hours of Le Mans 24 Hours of Le Mans.
July
*
July 17 -
Disneyland opens.
*
July 18 - The first atomic-generated electrical power is sold commercially.
*
July 18 - Illinois's Govenor
William Stratton signs Loyalty Oath Act that mandates all public employees take a loyalty oath or lose their jobs.
*
July 18 - Beginning of Geneva Summit between US, USSR, UK, and France.
*
July 23 - Geneva Summit between US, USSR, UK, and France ends.
August
*
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 25 - The last
Soviet forces leave
Austria.
September
*
September 10 - ''
Gunsmoke'' debuts on
CBS.
*
September 19 -
President of Argentina Juan Peron is ousted in a military coup.
*
September 19 - Hurricane Hilda kills 200 in Mexico.
*
September 22 - The UK's first
commercial television,
ITV launches
*
September 24 - U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers
coronary thrombosis while on vacation in
Denver.
*
September 30 - Actor
James Dean killed in car accident near Cholame, California.
October
*
October 4 - The Reverend
Sun Myung Moon is released from prison in
Seoul,
Korea.
*
October 26 -
Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims
Vietnam a republic with himself as president.
November
*
November 1 - Time bomb explodes aboard a
United Airlines DC-6 killing 44 above
Longmont, Colorado.
*
November 5 - Racial segregation is forbidden on trains and buses in
interstate commerce.
*
November 23 - The
Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the
United Kingdom to
Australia.
December
*
December 1 -
Montgomery, Alabama seamstress,
Rosa Parks, refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested.
*
December 5 - The
American Federation of Labor and the
Congress of Industrial Organizations merge to become the
AFL-CIO.
*
December 14 -
Tappan Zee Bridge in
New York opens to traffic.
*
December 31 -
General Motors Corporation General Motors becomes the first American corporation to make over
United States dollars USD $1 billion in a year.
*70 mm film is introduced with ''
Oklahoma!''.
*
Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach Airport (Flughafen Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach) was founded.
Births
January
*
January 2 -
Tex Brashear, American voice actor
*
January 6 -
Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
*
January 12 -
Rockne O'Bannon, writer and television producer
*
January 13 -
Jay McInerney, American writer
*
January 15 -
Nigel Benson, British author and illustrator
*
January 17 -
Steve Earle, American musician
*
January 18 -
Kevin Costner, American actor
*
January 19 -
Simon Rattle, English conductor
*
January 25 -
Terry Chimes, British drummer (
The Clash)
*
January 26 -
Edward Van Halen, Dutch-born musician
*
January 27 -
John Roberts,
Chief Justice of the United States
February
*
February 3 -
Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist
*
February 8 -
John Grisham, American novelist
*
February 10 -
Christopher Adams Chris Adams, British professional wrestler (d.
2001)
*
February 10 -
Greg Norman, Australian golfer
*
February 12 -
Arsenio Hall, American actor and talk show host
*
February 15 -
Christopher McDonald, American actor
*
February 19 -
Jeff Daniels (actor) Jeff Daniels, American actor
*
February 20 -
Kelsey Grammer, American actor
*
February 23 -
Howard Jones (musician) Howard Jones, English musician
*
February 24 -
Alain Prost, French race car driver
*
February 24 -
Steve Jobs, American computer pioneer
March
*
March 5 -
Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian
*
March 6 -
Alberta Watson, Canadian actress
*
March 7 -
Tommy Kramer, American football player
*
March 15 -
Dee Snider, American singer
*
March 16 -
Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer
*
March 16 -
Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director
*
March 17 -
Gary Sinise, American actor
*
March 19 -
Bruce Willis, American actor
*
March 22 -
Pete Sessions, American politician
*
March 23 -
Moses Malone, American basketball player
*
March 28 -
John Alderdice, Northern Irish politician
*
March 28 -
Reba McEntire, American singer and actress
*
March 29 -
Earl Campbell, American football star
*
March 31 -
Angus Young, Scottish-born lead guitarist for
AC/DC.
April
*
April 6 -
Michael Rooker, American actor
*
April 7 -
Werner Stocker, German actor (d.
1993)
*
April 8 -
Kane Hodder, American actor
*
April 11 -
Kevin Brady, American politician
*
April 15 -
Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d.
1997)
*
April 16 - Grand Duke
Henri of Luxembourg
*
April 23 -
Tony Miles, English chess player (d.
2001)
*
April 29 -
Kate Mulgrew, American actress
May
*
May 1 -
Ray Buttigieg, Maltese composer and poet
*
May 2 -
Dave Winer, American software pioneer
*
May 3 -
David Hookes, Australian cricketer (d.
2004)
*
May 3 -
Steve Jones, English guitarist (
Sex Pistols)
*
May 6 -
Tom Bergeron, American television host
*
May 9 -
Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
*
May 10 -
Chris Berman, American sports broadcaster
*
May 10 -
Mark David Chapman, American assassin of
John Lennon
*
May 16 -
Olga Korbut, Russian gymnast
*
May 16 -
Jack Morris, baseball player
*
May 16 -
Hazel O'Connor, British singer
*
May 16 -
Debra Winger, American actress
*
May 17 -
Bill Paxton, American actor
*
May 18 -
Chow Yun-Fat, Hong Kong actor
*
May 19 -
James Gosling, Canadian software engineer
*
May 20 -
Zbigniew Preisner, Polish film composer
*
May 21 -
Paul Barber (field hockey player) Paul Barber, British field hockey player
*
May 21 -
Stan Lynch, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
*
May 26 -
Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef
*
May 26 -
Doris Dorrie Doris Dörrie, German actress and screenplay writer
*
May 28 -
John McGeoch, Scottish musician (
Siouxsie and the Banshees and
Public Image Ltd.) (d.
2004)
*
May 30 -
Topper Headon, British drummer (
The Clash)
June
*
June 2 -
Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian
*
June 7 -
Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d.
1989)
*
June 8 -
Tim Berners-Lee, English inventor of the World Wide Web
*
June 12 -
Paul O'Grady, English talk show host and comedian
*
June 13 -
Larry Mike Garmon, American author
*
June 20 -
Tor Norretranders, Danish author
*
June 21 -
Tim Bray, Canadian computer programmer
*
June 26 -
Mick Jones (The Clash) Mick Jones, British guitarist (
The Clash and
Big Audio Dynamite)
*
June 27 -
Isabelle Adjani, French actress
July
*
July 1 -
Sanma Akashiya, Japanese comedian and actor
*
July 9 -
Fred Norris, American radio personality
*
July 21 -
Howie Epstein, American musician and producer (d.
2003)
August
*
August 4 -
Billy Bob Thornton, American actor
*
August 7 -
Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer
*
August 19 -
Peter Gallagher, American actor
September
*
September 1 -
Bruce Foxton, English musician
*
September 2 -
Robert Duncan, American astrophysicist
*
September 10 -
Pat Mastelotto, American musician
*
September 16 -
Robin Yount, baseball player
*
September 21 -
Roger Ambrose, American art director
October
*
October 7 -
Yo-Yo Ma, French-born Chinese cellist
*
October 10 -
David Lee Roth, American rock singer
*
October 15 -
Kulbir Bhaura, British field hockey player
*
October 17 -
Mae Jemison, astronaut
*
October 21 -
Rich Mullins, American musician (d.
1997)
*
October 28 -
Bill Gates, American software entrepreneur
November
*
November 3 -
Phil Simms, American football player
*
November 4 -
Matti Vanhanen,
Prime Minister of Finland
*
November 6 -
Maria Shriver, American journalist
*
November 7 -
Detlef Ultsch, German judoka
*
November 9 -
Karen Dotrice, English actress
*
November 13 -
Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedienne, and singer
*
November 21 -
Kyle Gann, American composer and music critic
*
November 23 -
Steven Brust, American author
*
November 24 -
Ian Botham, British cricketer
*
November 24 -
Elvis Ramone, American drummer (
The Ramones)
*
November 24 -
Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer
*
November 27 -
Bill Nye, American television personality
December
*
December 3 -
Steven Culp, American actor
*
December 4 -
Maurizio Bianchi, Italian experimental musician
*
December 7 -
Priscilla Barnes, American actress
*
December 12 -
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek politician and businesswoman
*
December 15 -
Paul Simonon, British bassist (
The Clash)
*
December 17 -
Brad Davis (basketball) Brad Davis, American basketball player
*
December 18 -
Ray Liotta, American actor
*
December 21 -
Jane Kaczmarek, American actress
*
December 27 -
Barbara Olson, American television commentator (d.
2001)
Deaths
January
*
January 2 -
Jose Antonio Remon,
President of Panama (assassinated) (b.
1908)
*
January 15 -
Yves Tanguy, French painter (b.
1900)
*
January 21 -
Archie Hahn, American athlete (b.
1880)
*
January 31 -
John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1865)
March
*
March 11 - Sir
Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1881)
*
March 12 -
Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b.
1920)
April
*
April 7 -
Theda Bara, American film actress (b.
1885)
*
April 18 -
Albert Einstein, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1879)
May
*
May 4 -
Georges Enescu, Romanian composer (b.
1881)
*
May 9 -
Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of
William Booth William and
Catherine Booth (b.
1858)
*
May 10 -
Tommy Burns, American boxer (b.
1881)
*
May 11 -
Gilbert Laird Jessop Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b.
1874)
*
May 16 -
James Agee, American writer (b.
1909)
*
May 18 -
Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (b.
1875)
*
May 26 -
Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b.
1918)
July
*
July 23 -
Cordell Hull,
United States Secretary of State, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1871)
August
*
August 2 -
Wallace Stevens, American poet (b.
1879)
*
August 5 -
Carmen Miranda, Portuguese singer and actress (b.
1909)
*
August 12 -
Thomas Mann, German writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1875)
*
August 12 -
James B. Sumner, American chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1887)
September
*
September 30 -
James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b.
1931)
October
*
October 1 -
Charles Christie, American film studio owner (b.
1880)
*
October 9 -
Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna (b.
1875)
November
*
November 4 -
Cy Young, baseball player (b.
1867)
*
November 5 -
Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b.
1882)
*
November 12 -
Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b.
1878)
*
November 22 -
Shemp Howard, American Actor and member of the
Three Stooges (b.
1895)
*
November 27 -
Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b.
1982)
December
*
December 6 -
Honus Wagner, baseball player (b.
1874)
*
December 13 -
Egas Moniz, Portuguese neurologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1874)
*
December 27 -
Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (b.
1881)
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize in Physics Physics -
Willis Eugene Lamb,
Polykarp Kusch
*
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Chemistry -
Vincent du Vigneaud
*
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Physiology or Medicine-
Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell
*
Nobel Prize in Literature Literature -
Halldor Laxness Halldór Kiljan Laxness
*
Nobel Peace Prize Peace - not awarded
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