WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1955
Find out what all happened June to December 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded. (25. September 1955)

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

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

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