WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1955
Find out what all happened February to September 1955

McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois (15. April 1955)

The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges. (3. April 1955)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective. (12. April 1955)

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

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

Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom. (6. September 1955)

In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives. (19. August 1955)