1955

Events

   * January 2 - Panama president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated.
   * January 19 - The Scrabble board game debuts.
   * February 13 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
   * February 23 - First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
     (SEATO)
   * March 2 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in
     favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit
   * March 25 - United States Customs seizes Allen Ginsberg's Howl as
     obscene
   * April 5 - Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United
     Kingdom amid indications of failing heath.
   * May 9 - Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
   * May 14 - Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet
     Union sign a mutual-defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
   * July 17 - Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California.
   * July 27 - The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II,
     ends (started on May 9, 1945).
   * August 19 - In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by
     Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
   * August 20 - In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains
     region of Algeria, raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French
     nationals.
   * October 2 - The ENIAC computer is deactivated.
   * October 26 - Austrian independence is declared again forming the Second
     Republic with the declaration of everlasting neutrality and the state
     constitution.
   * October 29 - The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II
     mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
   * December 31 - General Motors becomes the first American corporation to
     make sales of over one billion dollars in a year.

   * Dick Bruna draws Miffy for the first time.
   * Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of Britain for the second
     time.
   * Mattachine Society, one of the first gay rights organizations, is
     founded in the City of New York.
   * Maurice Wilkes publishes a description of microprogramming in IEEE
     Spectrum.

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1955 in film
        o Marty
        o Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
   * 1955 in television
        o April 1 - The DuMont Television network drastically cuts back its
          programming
        o September 28 - The First World Series game broadcast in color
        o The Honeymooners premieres, starring Jackie Gleason, Art Carney
          and Audrey Meadows
        o Lawrence Welk Show debuts (1955-1982)
        o The Mickey Mouse Club debuts, featuring "Mouseketeer" Annette
          Funicello. (1955-1959)

Births

   * January 6 - Rowan Atkinson, comedian, actor
   * January 12 - Kirstie Alley, actress
   * January 12 - Rockne O'Bannon, writer, producer
   * January 13 - Jay McInerney, writer
   * January 17 - Steve Earle, musician
   * January 18 - Kevin Costner, actor
   * January 19 - Simon Rattle, conductor
   * January 26 - Eddie Van Halen, musician
   * February 8 - John Grisham, novelist
   * February 10 - Greg Norman, golfer
   * February 12 - Arsenio Hall, actor, talk show host
   * February 19 - Jeff Daniels, actor
   * February 23 - Howard Jones, musician
   * February 24 - Alain Prost, Formula One driver
   * February 24 - Steve Jobs, computer pioneer
   * March 5 - Penn Jillette, magician, comedian
   * March 15 - Dee Snider, singer
   * March 16 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxing world champion
   * March 17 - Gary Sinise, actor
   * March 19 - Bruce Willis, actor
   * March 28 - Reba McEntire, country music singer, actress
   * March 29 - Earl Campbell, American football star
   * April 1 - Ronnie Burk, surrealist and AIDS activist
   * April 16 - Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg
   * April 23 - Tony Miles, chess player
   * May 10 - Mark David Chapman, assassin
   * May 16 - Debra Winger, actress
   * May 16 - Olga Korbut, gymnast
   * May 17 - Bill Paxton, actor
   * May 18 - Chow Yun-Fat, actor
   * May 20 - Zbigniew Preisner, film composer
   * May 26 - Doris Dšrrie, actor and screenplay writer
   * June 27 - Isabelle Adjani, actress
   * August 4 - Billy Bob Thornton, actor
   * September 10 - Pat Mastelotto, musician
   * October 7 - Yo-Yo Ma, cellist
   * October 17 - Mae Jemison, astronaut
   * October 26 - Mark Welch, inventor
   * October 28 - Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft
   * November 4 - Matti Vanhanen, prime minister of Finland
   * November 23 - Steven Brust, fantasy author
   * November 24 - Ian Botham, English cricketer
   * December 10 - Warren Gaebel, systems analyst
   * Tor Norretranders, science author

Deaths

   * March 11 - Sir Alexander Fleming, British discoverer of penicillin.
   * March 12 - Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist
   * April 7 - Theda Bara, silent film actress
   * April 18 - Albert Einstein, scientist.
   * May 10 - Tommy Burns, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
   * May 26 - Alberto Ascari, Italian F1 race car driver
   * August 5 - Carmen Miranda, singer, actress
   * October 1 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood
   * November 4 - Cy Young, American baseball player
   * November 5 - Maurice Utrillo, a "Montmartre" artist
   * November 27 - Arthur Honegger, composer
   * December 6 - Honus Wagner, Baseball Hall of Fame inductee

Nobel Prizes

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

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