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1955 Calendar

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•  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.
•  April 12, 1955 – The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
•  April 15, 1955 – McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
•  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 18, 1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
•  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.
•  December 31, 1955 – The General Motors Corporation becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.

•  January 13, 1955 – Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter
•  January 24, 1955 – Jim Montgomery, American swimmer
•  April 7, 1955 – Gregg Jarrett, American lawyer and television news journalist
•  April 24, 1955 – Michael O'Keefe, American actor
•  June 26, 1955 – Mick Jones, British guitarist (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite)
•  July 12, 1955 – Bambi Woods, American porn actress
•  October 12, 1955 – Aggie MacKenzie, Scottish television presenter
•  November 15, 1955 – Georgie Born, English academic, anthropologist and musician (Henry Cow)
•  December 7, 1955 – John Watkins, Australian politician
•  December 27, 1955 – Brad Murphey, Australian racing driver