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1955 Calendar

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•  January 24, 1955 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Sheep in Chinese astrology.
•  April 15, 1955 – McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
•  April 19, 1955 – The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network.
•  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 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.
•  July 27, 1955 – The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends.
•  October 3, 1955 – The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
•  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 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.
•  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.

•  January 26, 1955 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American musician (Van Halen)
•  January 30, 1955 – Mychal Thompson, Bahamian basketball player
•  February 22, 1955 – Gordon Banks, American guitarist
•  March 3, 1955 – Darnell Williams, British actor
•  March 5, 1955 – Julien Dray, French politician
•  March 13, 1955 – Glenne Headly, American actress
•  March 22, 1955 – Pete Sessions, American politician
•  June 7, 1955 – Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)
•  August 19, 1955 – Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
•  December 16, 1955 – Xander Berkeley, American actor