WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1955
Find out what all happened January to May 1955

The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants. (8. February 1955)

West Germany gains full sovereignty. (5. 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)

Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea scrolls. (13. February 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)

Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends. (18. May 1955)

The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis. (4. January 1955)

Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact. (14. May 1955)

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

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

King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit. (2. March 1955)

Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated. (2. January 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)

The Soviet Union ends the state of war with Germany. (25. January 1955)

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

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

First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). (23. February 1955)

Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera. (7. January 1955)