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1955 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2033. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1955 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1955
- January 24, 1955 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- March 2, 1955 – Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
- June 7, 1955 – Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
- June 13, 1955 – Mir mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
- September 16, 1955 – The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
- September 30, 1955 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
- October 26, 1955 – Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
- December 1, 1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- December 10, 1955 – Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on American television.
- December 31, 1955 – General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
Who Were Born On 1955?
- April 7, 1955 – Tim Cochran, American mathematician and academic (d. 2014)
- May 15, 1955 – Lee Horsley, American actor
- May 18, 1955 – Lena T. Hansson, Swedish actress and director
- May 21, 1955 – Stan Lynch, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
- May 30, 1955 – Colm Tóibín, Irish author, poet, playwright, and critic
- June 14, 1955 – Michael D. Duvall, American businessman and politician
- August 29, 1955 – Diamanda Galás, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- September 29, 1955 – Gareth Davies, Welsh rugby player and academic
- October 7, 1955 – Yo-Yo Ma, French-American cellist and educator (Silk Road Project)
- November 6, 1955 – Maria Shriver, American journalist and author