1955

Years: 1952 1953 1954 - 1955 - 1956 1957 1958
Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Template:C20YearInTopic

1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents

1 Events

1.1 January-April
1.2 May-July
1.3 August-October
1.4 November-December
1.5 Unknown date

2 Year in topic

3 Births

3.1 January-February
3.2 March-April
3.3 May
3.4 June-September
3.5 October-December

4 Deaths

5 Nobel Prizes

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 15- Fedral ALP (Australian Labor Party) split (a)
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 2 - Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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 - The Austrian Independence Treaty is signed.
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 - During the 24 hours of Le Mans, Pierre Levegh's car crashed into the spectator's grandstand - 80 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.
September 30 - James Dean is killed in an automobile accident near Pasa Robles, California
October 2 - The ENIAC computer is deactivated.
October 3 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, elected president of Brazil, for a five year term.
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 - Following the Austrian Independence Treaty of May 15, the last allied troops leave the country. The parliament declaras Austria's everlasting neutrality.
October 29 - The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.