1955 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1955?
- January 2, 1955 – Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated
- 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.
- 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 2, 1955 – Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
- 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 14, 1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
- June 13, 1955 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
- June 14, 1955 – Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- June 26, 1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
- July 9, 1955 – The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London.
- July 28, 1955 – The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
- August 7, 1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
- August 20, 1955 – In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
- September 25, 1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
- October 3, 1955 – The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
- October 26, 1955 – Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
- October 29, 1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
- November 4, 1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
- December 5, 1955 – E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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