WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1955
Find out what all happened May to November 1955

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

American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. (7. October 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 Soviet battleship Novorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol. (29. October 1955)

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

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

West Germany gains full sovereignty. (5. May 1955)

In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time. (22. September 1955)

The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight. (16. September 1955)

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

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

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

Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement. (28. August 1955)

Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan. (7. August 1955)

The Russell–Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London, England, United Kingdom. (9. July 1955)

Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24. (30. September 1955)

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

In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals. (20. August 1955)