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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.
•  February 23, 1955 – First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
•  May 5, 1955 – West Germany gains full sovereignty.
•  May 9, 1955 – Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
•  July 18, 1955 – The first Disneyland theme park, in Anaheim, California, officially opens to the public.
•  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 30, 1955 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
•  October 26, 1955 – After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality.
•  November 1, 1955 – The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
•  December 20, 1955 – Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.

•  January 9, 1955 – J. K. Simmons, American actor
•  April 24, 1955 – John de Mol, Dutch media businessman
•  April 28, 1955 – Nicky Gumbel, British author and priest
•  May 4, 1955 – Avram Grant, Israeli football manager
•  June 29, 1955 – Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
•  July 12, 1955 – Bambi Woods, American porn actress
•  September 8, 1955 – Terry Tempest Williams, American author and environmentalist
•  November 7, 1955 – Detlef Ultsch, German judoka
•  December 15, 1955 – Paul Simonon, English bassist (The Clash)
•  December 28, 1955 – Liu Xiaobo, Chinese human rights activist, Nobel laureate