1955

Years: 1952 1953 1954 - 1955 - 1956 1957 1958
Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1955 in architecture 1955 in art 1955 in aviation 1955 in film 1955 in literature 1955 in music 1955 in radio 1955 in science 1955 in sports 1955 in television 1955 in Canada 1955 in India

Table of contents

1 Events

1.1 January
1.2 February
1.3 March
1.4 April
1.5 May
1.6 June
1.7 July-December

2 Unknown date

2.8 Fictional events

3 Year in topic
4 Births

4.9 January-February
4.10 March-September
4.11 October-December

5 Deaths
6 Nobel Prizes

Events

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.
May 15 - First ascent of Makalu, fifth highest mountain.
May 25 - First ascent of Kanchenjunga, 3rd highest mountain.

June 20 - Very long (7min 08sec) total solar eclipse visible in Southeast Asia. During the entire Second Millennium, only seven total solar eclipses exceeded seven minutes of totality. This was the next to last.

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.
November 23 - The Cocos Islands are transferred from United Kingdom to Australian control.
November 24 - Fokker F27 first flight.
December 1 - American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws (Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr later led the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott as a result).
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.

Saturday, November 5, 1955 - This is the date Marty McFly arrived in 1955 in the film Back to the Future.
Saturday, November 12, 1955 - A key date in the Back to the Future trilogy. In the first film, a lightning bolt struck the clock tower at 10:04 PM, stopping the clock and sending Marty back to Saturday, October 26, 1985. In Part II, Marty and Doc Brown return to this date to stop Biff Tannen from getting an almanac predicting the future.