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1955 Historical Event(s)
January 24, 1955
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Sheep in Chinese astrology.
May 2, 1955
– Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
June 11, 1955
– 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, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
June 15, 1955
– The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual “Operation Alert” (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA’s preparations for a nuclear attack.
July 15, 1955
– Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
July 28, 1955
– The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
December 1, 1955
– American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
December 5, 1955
– E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
December 14, 1955
– Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sri Lanka join the United Nations.
December 24, 1955
– NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition.
Who Were Born On 1955?
February 15, 1955
– Christopher McDonald, American actor
March 29, 1955
– Earl Campbell, American football player
April 8, 1955
– David Wu, Taiwanese-born American politician
May 24, 1955
– David Leonard, American guitarist, singer and songwriter
June 22, 1955
– Green Gartside, Welsh singer and songwriter (Scritti Politti)
July 9, 1955
– Steve Coppell, English footballer and manager
July 25, 1955
– Randall Bewley, American guitarist
September 21, 1955
– François Cluzet, French actor
October 20, 1955
– David Profumo, English novelist
December 19, 1955
– Rob Portman, American politician, senator from Ohio