WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER 1955
Find out what all happened August to September 1955

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

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

A Soviet Navy Zulu class submarine becomes the first submarine to launch a ballistic missile. (16. September 1955)

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

The military coup to unseat President Juan PerĂ³n of Argentina is launched at midnight. (16. September 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)

Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24. (30. September 1955)

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

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

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

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