1955
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| Years: | 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
- January 2 - Panama president Jose Antonio Remon is killed.
- January 19 - The Scrabble board game debuts.
- February 8 - Nikolai Bulganin ousts Georgi Malenkov
- February 13 - Israel gets 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
- February 23 - First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
- March 2:
- March 15- Fedral ALP (Australian Labor Party) split (a)
- April 5 - Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid signs of failing health
- April 7 - Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
[edit] Births
- January 2 - Tex Brashear, American voice actor
- January 6 - Rowan Atkinson, comedian, actor
- January 12 - Rockne O'Bannon, writer, producer
- January 13 - Jay McInerney, writer
- January 17 - Steve Earle, musician
- January 18 - Kevin Costner, actor
- January 19 - Simon Rattle, English conductor
- January 26 - Eddie Van Halen, musician
- January 27 - John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- February 8 - John Grisham, novelist
- February 10 - Greg Norman, golfer
- February 12 - Arsenio Hall, actor, talk show host
- February 19 - Jeff Daniels, actor
- February 20 - Kelsey Grammer, actor
- February 23 - Howard Jones, musician
- February 24 - Alain Prost, Formula One driver
- February 24 - Steve Jobs, computer pioneer
- March 5 - Penn Jillette, magician, comedian
- March 7 - Tommy Kramer, American football player
- March 15 - Dee Snider, singer
- March 16 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxing world champion
- March 16 - Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director
- March 17 - Gary Sinise, actor
- March 19 - Bruce Willis, actor
- March 22 - Pete Sessions, U.S. politician
- March 23 - Moses Malone, basketball player
- March 28 - Reba McEntire, country music singer, actress
- March 29 - Earl Campbell, American football star
- March 31 - Angus Young, musician
- April 1 - Ronnie Burk, surrealist and AIDS activist
- April 6 - Michael Rooker, actor
- April 11 - Kevin Brady, American politician
- April 15 - Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)
- April 16 - Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg
- April 23 - Tony Miles, English chess player
- April 29 - Kate Mulgrew, actress
[edit] Deaths
- January 15 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)
- January 21 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
- March 11 - Sir Alexander Fleming, British medical researcher (b. 1881)
- March 12 - Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)
- April 7 - Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885)
- April 18 - Albert Einstein, German physicist (b. 1879)
- May 4 - Georges Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881)
- May 10 - Tommy Burns, American boxer (b. 1881)
- May 11 - Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
- May 16 - James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)
- May 26 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)
- August 2 - Wallace Stevens, American poet (b. 1879)
- August 5 - Carmen Miranda, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1909)
- August 12 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
- August 12 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- September 30 - James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
- October 1 - Charles Christie, American film studio owner (b. 1880)
- October 9 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna
- November 4 - Cy Young, baseball player (b. 1867)
- November 5 - Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1882)
- November 12 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
- November 27 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1982)
- December 6 - Honus Wagner, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1874)
[edit] Films Released
- Alexander The Great
- Blackboard Jungle
- Marty
- All That Heaven Allows
- The Ladykillers
- To Catch a Theif
- The Desperate Hours
[edit] Hit Songs
- Rock around the Clock- Bill Haley
[edit] New Books
- The Acceptance World - Anthony Powell
- Andersonville - MacKinlay Kantor
- Auntie Mame - Patrick Dennis
- Bath Tangle – Georgette Heyer
- Birdman of Alcatraz - Thomas E. Gaddis
- Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
- The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
- The Dragon in the Sea - Frank Herbert
- The End of Eternity - Isaac Asimov
- The Genius and the Goddess - Aldous Huxley
- The Ginger Man - J. P. Donleavy
- A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - Brian Moore
- The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King - J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - Sloan Wilson
- Marjorie Morningstar - Herman Wouk
- Moonraker - Ian Fleming
- No Time for Sergeants - Mac Hyman
- Not As a Stranger - Morton Thompson
- Notes of a Native Son - James Baldwin
- The October Country - Ray Bradbury
- Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
- The Quiet American - Graham Greene
- Satan in Goray - Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Scuffy the Tugboat - Gertrude Crampton
- Something of Value - Robert Ruark
- That Uncertain Feeling - Kingsley Amis
- The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Relato de un náufrago) - Gabriel García Márquez
- The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
- Ten North Frederick - John O'Hara
- The Tontine - Thomas B. Costain
- The Tree of Man - Patrick White
- Tunnel in the Sky - Robert A. Heinlein
