1955 Calendar
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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.
- April 11, 1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
- April 18, 1955 – 29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
- April 24, 1955 – The Bandung Conference ends: 29 non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
- July 27, 1955 – The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends.
- September 25, 1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
- November 23, 1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
- 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 10, 1955 – The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television.
- December 20, 1955 – Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
Who Were Born On 1955?
- January 30, 1955 – Mychal Thompson, Bahamian basketball player
- March 4, 1955 – Rowland Charles Gould (Boon Gould) English musician (Level 42)
- June 21, 1955 – Tim Bray, Canadian computer programmer
- August 27, 1955 – Diana Scarwid, American actress
- September 16, 1955 – Janet Ellis, British television presenter
- October 18, 1955 – Vanessa Briscoe Hay, American singer and songwriter (Pylon (band), Supercluster)
- November 5, 1955 – Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist
- November 7, 1955 – Shirley Eikhard, Canadian singer-songwriter
- November 24, 1955 – Ian Botham, England test cricketer