1955 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1955?
- January 4, 1955 – The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.
- January 24, 1955 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- January 25, 1955 – The Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany.
- February 8, 1955 – The Government of Sindh abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
- April 11, 1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
- April 18, 1955 – 29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
- April 23, 1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
- May 12, 1955 – Nineteen days after bus workers went on strike in Singapore, rioting breaks out and seriously impacts Singapore’s bid for independence.
- May 25, 1955 – In the United States, a night time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
- July 18, 1955 – The first Disneyland theme park, in Anaheim, California, officially opens to the public.
- July 28, 1955 – The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
- August 19, 1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
- September 16, 1955 – Juan Perón is deposed as the ruler of Argentina.
- September 22, 1955 – In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
- September 30, 1955 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
- October 3, 1955 – The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
- October 26, 1955 – After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality.
- November 19, 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
- December 20, 1955 – Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
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