WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1955
Find out what all happened April to December 1955

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

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

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations. (14. December 1955)

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

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

Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California. (17. July 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 American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO. (5. December 1955)

NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition. (24. December 1955)

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

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

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

Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom. (20. December 1955)

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

Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends. (12. May 1955)

The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang. (11. April 1955)

Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom. (6. 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 EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of obtaining the desired unification ("enosis") with Greece. (1. April 1955)