WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JULY 1955
Find out what all happened February to July 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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series. (18. February 1955)

The Bandung Conference ends: 29 non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War. (24. 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)

Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea scrolls. (13. February 1955)

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

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

Soviet Union regional elections, 1955. (27. February 1955)

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

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