WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO JULY 1955
Find out what all happened April to July 1955

Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health. (7. April 1955)

The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of obtaining the desired unification ("enosis") with Greece. (1. April 1955)

Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California. (17. July 1955)

McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois (15. April 1955)

First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day. (25. May 1955)

Cold War: West Germany joins NATO. (9. May 1955)

The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948. (2. June 1955)

The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges. (3. April 1955)

The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour. (23. April 1955)

The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang. (11. April 1955)

Eighty-three spectators 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. (11. June 1955)

Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others. (15. July 1955)

The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown. (26. June 1955)

The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective. (12. April 1955)

Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends. (12. May 1955)

29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference. (18. April 1955)

The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France. (28. July 1955)

Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. (2. May 1955)

In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S. (25. May 1955)

The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends. (27. July 1955)