WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 1955
Find out what all happened June to October 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)

Lux Radio Theater signed off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films. (7. June 1955)

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

A Soviet Navy Zulu class submarine becomes the first submarine to launch a ballistic missile. (16. September 1955)

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

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

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

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

Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered. (13. June 1955)

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

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

In a futile effort to topple President Juan Perón, rogue aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed crowd demonstrating in favor of Perón in Buenos Aires, killing 364 and injuring at least 800. At the same time on the ground, some forces soldiers attempt to stage a coup but are suppressed by loyal forces. (16. June 1955)

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

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

The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded. (25. September 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)

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

Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. (14. June 1955)

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