WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 1955
Find out what all happened October to December 1955

After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio. (5. November 1955)

General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year. (31. December 1955)

The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO. (5. December 1955)

The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol. (29. October 1955)

Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on American television. (10. December 1955)

American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. (7. October 1955)

National Review publishes its first issue. (19. November 1955)

NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition. (24. December 1955)

The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia. (23. November 1955)

Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom. (20. December 1955)

Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California. (5. October 1955)

Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam. (26. October 1955)

E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. (5. December 1955)

After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality. (26. October 1955)

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations. (14. December 1955)

The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner. (1. November 1955)

The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC. (3. October 1955)

American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. (1. December 1955)