1955 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1955?
- 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.
- February 23, 1955 – First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
- April 18, 1955 – 29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
- May 25, 1955 – In the United States, a night time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
- June 26, 1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
- July 17, 1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
- August 19, 1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
- 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.
- August 28, 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
- September 16, 1955 – Juan Perón is deposed as the ruler of Argentina.
- September 30, 1955 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
- October 3, 1955 – The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
- October 5, 1955 – Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
- November 19, 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
- 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 5, 1955 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.
- December 10, 1955 – The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television.
- December 24, 1955 – NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition.
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