1955 1955 321 Category="1955"

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1955 by topic:

Arts Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and Technology Archaeology - Aviation - Rail transport - Radio - Science
Countries Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - South Africa
Other Births - Deaths - Sport - State leaders - Religious leaders - Video gaming

1955 (MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January 7 - Marian Anderson is the first black singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
February 8 - Nikolai Bulganin becomes Soviet premier.
February 12 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam.
April 5 - Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
April 6 - Anthony Eden becomes British Prime Minister.
April 12 - The Salk vaccine against polio is introduced.
April 15 - Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's fast food chain.
May 5 - West Germany becomes a sovereign state.
May 9 - West Germany joins NATO.
May 14 - The Warsaw Pact is formed by the communist states of Eastern Europe and the USSR.
May 31 - The United States Supreme Court orders school integration.
July 17 - Disneyland opens.
July 18 - The first atomic-generated electrical power is sold commercially.
August 19 - Hurricane Diane hits the northeast United States, killing 200 and causing over $1 billion in damage.
August 20 - Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.
August 25 - The last Soviet forces leave Austria.
September 10 - Gunsmoke debuts on CBS.
September 19 - Argentine dictator Juan Peron is ousted.
September 22 - Commercial television begins in England.
September 24 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers coronary thrombosis while on vacation in Denver.
October 4 - The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is released from prison in Seoul, Korea.
October 26 - Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president.
November 1 - Time bomb explodes aboard a United DC-6 killing 44 above Longmont, Colorado.
November 5 - Racial segregation is forbidden on trains and buses in interstate commerce.
November 5 - Dr. Emmett Brown invents the Flux capacitor.
December 1 - Montgomery, Alabama seamstress, Rosa Parks, refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested.
December 5 - The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge to become the AFL-CIO.
December 14 - Tappan Zee Bridge in New York opens to traffic.
70 mm film is introduced with Oklahoma!.
Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach Airport (Flughafen Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach) was founded.

Births

January-February

January 2 - Tex Brashear, American voice actor
January 6 - Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
January 12 - Rockne O'Bannon, writer and television producer
January 13 - Jay McInerney, American writer
January 17 - Steve Earle, American musician
January 18 - Kevin Costner, American actor
January 19 - Simon Rattle, English conductor
January 27 - John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States
January 26 - Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-born musician
February 3 - Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist
February 8 - John Grisham, American novelist
February 10 - Chris Adams, American professional wrestler (d. 2001)
February 10 - Greg Norman, Australian golfer
February 12 - Arsenio Hall, American actor and talk show host
February 15 - Christopher McDonald, American actor
February 19 - Jeff Daniels, American actor
February 20 - Kelsey Grammer, American actor
February 23 - Howard Jones, English musician
February 24 - Alain Prost, French race car driver
February 24 - Steve Jobs, American computer pioneer
April 27 - Taryn Breen, American Citizen, General Contractor, BECC

March-April

March 1 - Timothy Laurence, husband of Princess Anne of the United Kingdom
March 5 - Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian
March 7 - Tommy Kramer, American football player
March 15 - Dee Snider, American singer
March 16 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer
March 16 - Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director
March 17 - Gary Sinise, American actor
March 19 - Bruce Willis, American actor
March 22 - Pete Sessions, American politician
March 23 - Moses Malone, American basketball player
March 28 - Reba McEntire, American singer and actress
March 29 - Earl Campbell, American football star
March 31 - Angus Young, Scottish musician
April 6 - Michael Rooker, American actor
April 7 - Werner Stocker, German actor (d. 1993
April 11 - Kevin Brady, American politician
April 15 - Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)
April 16 - Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg
April 23 - Tony Miles, English chess player (d. 2001)
April 29 - Kate Mulgrew, American actress

May

May 1 - Ray Buttigieg, Maltese electronic music pioneer and poet
May 2 - Dave Winer, American software pioneer
May 3 - David Hookes, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
May 6 - Tom Bergeron, American television host
May 9 - Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
May 10 - Chris Berman, American sports broadcaster
May 10 - Mark David Chapman, American assassin of John Lennon
May 16 - Olga Korbut, Russian gymnast
May 16 - Jack Morris, baseball player
May 16 - Hazel O'Connor, British singer
May 16 - Debra Winger, American actress
May 17 - Bill Paxton, American actor
May 18 - Chow Yun-Fat, Hong Kong actor
May 20 - Zbigniew Preisner, Polish film composer
May 21 - Paul Barber, British field hockey player
May 26 - Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef
May 26 - Doris Dörrie, German actress and screenplay writer
May 28 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees and Public Image Ltd.) (d. 2004)
May 30 - Topper Headon, British drummer (The Clash)

June-September

June 2 - Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian
June 7 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)
June 8 - Tim Berners-Lee, English inventor of the World Wide Web
June 13 - Larry Mike Garmon, American author
June 20 - Tor Norretranders, Danish science author
June 21 - Tim Bray, Canadian computer programmer
June 25 - Terry Chimes, British drummer (The Clash)
June 26 - Mick Jones, British guitarist (The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite)
June 27 - Isabelle Adjani, French actress
July 1 - Sanma Akashiya, Japanese comedian and actor
July 9 - Fred Norris, American radio personality
August 4 - Billy Bob Thornton, American actor
August 7 - Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer
August 19 - Peter Gallagher, American actor
September 1 - Bruce Foxton, English musician
September 10 - Pat Mastelotto, American musician
September 16 - Robin Yount, baseball player

October-December

October 7 - Yo-Yo Ma, French-born Chinese cellist
October 15 - Kulbir Bhaura, British field hockey player
October 17 - Mae Jemison, astronaut
October 21 - Rich Mullins, American musician (d. 1997)
October 28 - Bill Gates, American software entrepreneur
November 4 - Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland
November 6 - Maria Shriver, American journalist and First Lady of California
November 7 - Detlef Ultsch, German judo champion
November 13 - Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedienne, and singer
November 21 - Kyle Gann, American composer and music critic
November 23 - Steven Brust, American author
November 24 - Ian Botham, British cricketer
November 24 - Elvis Ramone, American drummer The Ramones
November 24 - Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer
December 3 - Steven Culp, American actor
December 4 - Maurizio Bianchi, Italian experimental musician
December 12 - Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek politician and businesswoman
December 15 - Paul Simonon, British bassist (The Clash)
December 17 - Brad Davis, American basketball player
December 18 - Ray Liotta, American actor
December 21 - Jane Kaczmarek, American actress
December 27 - Barbara Olson, American television commentator (d. 2001)

Deaths

January 2 - Jose Antonio Remon, President of Panama
January 15 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)
January 21 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
January 31 - John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)
March 11 - Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1881)
March 12 - Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)
April 7 - Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885)
April 18 - Albert Einstein, German-born Jewish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
May 4 - Georges Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881)
May 10 - Tommy Burns, American boxer (b. 1881)
May 11 - Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
May 16 - James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)
May 18 - Mary McLeod Bethune, African-American educator (b. 1875)
May 26 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)
July 23 - Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1871)
August 2 - Wallace Stevens, American poet (b. 1879)
August 5 - Carmen Miranda, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1909)
August 12 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
August 12 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
September 30 - James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931)
October 1 - Charles Christie, American film studio owner (b. 1880)
October 9 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1875)
November 4 - Cy Young, baseball player (b. 1867)
November 5 - Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1882)
November 12 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
November 27 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1982)
December 6 - Honus Wagner, baseball player (b. 1874)
December 27 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (b. 1881)

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Willis Eugene Lamb, Polykarp Kusch
Chemistry - Vincent du Vigneaud
Medicine- Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell
Literature - Halldór Kiljan Laxness
Peace - not awarded

1955 by topic:
Arts	Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and Technology	Archaeology - Aviation - Rail transport - Radio - Science
Countries	Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - South Africa
Other	Births - Deaths - Sport - State leaders - Religious leaders - Video gaming