1955 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1955?
- January 2, 1955 – Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated
- 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 1, 1955 – The EOKA rebellion against The British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of obtaining the desired unification (“enosis”) with Greece.
- 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.
- May 5, 1955 – West Germany gains full sovereignty.
- May 9, 1955 – Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
- May 14, 1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
- June 7, 1955 – Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
- June 11, 1955 – Eighty-three are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
- June 15, 1955 – The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual “Operation Alert” (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA’s preparations for a nuclear attack.
- June 26, 1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
- July 15, 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
- July 17, 1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
- July 18, 1955 – The first Disneyland theme park, in Anaheim, California, officially opens to the public.
- October 26, 1955 – Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
- December 31, 1955 – The General Motors Corporation becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
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