1955 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1955?
- January 24, 1955 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 8, 1955 – The Government of Sindh abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
- February 13, 1955 – Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
- April 12, 1955 – The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
- April 23, 1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
- 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.
- May 9, 1955 – Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
- May 12, 1955 – Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends.
- 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.
- June 2, 1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
- July 9, 1955 – The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London.
- August 7, 1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
- August 19, 1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
- 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.
- November 19, 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
- December 5, 1955 – E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead 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.
- December 24, 1955 – NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition.
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