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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.
•  January 25, 1955 – The Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany.
•  March 2, 1955 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit.
•  April 3, 1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg’s book Howl against obscenity charges.
•  June 13, 1955 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
•  July 15, 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
•  August 28, 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
•  September 6, 1955 – Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul’s Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
•  September 25, 1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
•  October 29, 1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.

•  January 15, 1955 – Nigel Benson, English author
•  March 3, 1955 – Andy Breckman, American comedian and radio personality
•  March 10, 1955 – Toshio Suzuki, Japanese racing driver
•  May 21, 1955 – Stan Lynch, American drummer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
•  May 26, 1955 – Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef
•  June 13, 1955 – Alan Hansen, Scottish football pundit
•  June 29, 1955 – Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
•  July 17, 1955 – Paul Stamets, American mycologist and environmentalist
•  August 27, 1955 – Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
•  November 24, 1955 – Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer