1955 in the United States - Wikipedia
Events from the year 1955 in the United States. January 7 – Marian Anderson is the first African-American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. January 22 – The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) armed with nuclear weapons.
1955 Events & Facts - Baby Boomers
What Happened in 1955? MAJOR EVENTS: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads the first major event of the U.S. civil rights movement, a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama; President Eisenhower suffers heart attack, is hospitalized for three weeks; World War II Allies sign treaty restoring Austria’s independence
1955 - Wikipedia
August 19 – Hurricane Diane hits the northeastern United States, killing over 200 people and causing over $1 billion in damage. August 20 – Hundreds of people are killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria. August 22 – Eleven schoolchildren are killed when their school bus is hit by a freight train in Spring City, Tennessee.
1955: what happened that year? | TakeMeBack.to
In 1955, President Eisenhower made a fateful decision that would affect American foreign policy and millions of lives for many years: he sent the first American soldiers as advisors to Vietnam. This was also a year of notable developments in the Cold War between the West and the East, led by the United States and the Soviet Union, respectively.
Historical Events in 1955 - On This Day
Historical events from year 1955. Learn about 473 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in 1955 or search by date or keyword.
U.S. Timeline 1950-1959 - America's Best History
1955 February 12, 1955 - The United States government agrees to train South Vietnamese troops. May 31, 1955 - The Supreme Court of the United States orders that all public schools be integrated with deliberate speed.
1955 Archives - HISTORY
As the Cold War heated up in 1955, the U.S.S.R. and seven of its European satellite countries formed the Warsaw Pact defense alliance to counter NATO. In the U.S., the first McDonald’s...
Timeline of the history of the United States (1950–1969)
1955 – Ray Kroc opens a McDonald's fast food restaurant and, after purchasing the franchise from its original owners, oversees its national (and later, worldwide) expansion; 1955 – Murder of Emmett Till; 1955 – Rosa Parks remains seated on a bus, the incident which evolves into the Montgomery bus boycott
Top News Stories from 1955 - Infoplease
Severo Ochoa at NYU synthesizes DNA- and RNA -like molecules. Background: genetic engineering. Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
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Events from the year 1955 in the United States. January 7 – Marian Anderson is the first African-American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. January 22 – The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) armed with nuclear weapons.