10 events found for 1955
Joe Brown and George Band, members of the British Kangchenjunga expedition, made the first ascent of the world's third-
The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration, legitimising different interpretations of Marxism in non-Soviet c
Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell (pictured) and nine other preeminent intellectuals and scientists issued the…
After straying into Bulgarian airspace, El Al Flight 402 was shot down by two MiG-15 fighter jets, resulting in the…
The Austrian State Treaty came into effect, ending the Allied occupation of Austria, although the country was not free…
Hurricane Diane, the first Atlantic hurricane to cause more than $1 billion in damages, formed between the Lesser…
Pather Panchali, the first film in The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, was released and went on to win many Indian and…
The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published.
African-American teenager Emmett Till was lynched near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman,…
A white U.S. soldier raped and murdered a five-year-old local girl in Kadena, Okinawa.