WHAT HAPPENED IN 1955.
Look what happened the 1955.

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

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)

Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement. (28. August 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 Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight. (16. September 1955)

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

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

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

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

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

Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California. (5. October 1955)

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

After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality. (26. October 1955)

Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam. (26. October 1955)

The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol. (29. October 1955)

The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner. (1. November 1955)

After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio. (5. November 1955)

National Review publishes its first issue. (19. November 1955)