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November 3 – The five-and-one-half-mile long
Rimutaka Railroad tunnel opens in New Zealand.
November 5 – Racial segregation is outlawed on
trains and buses in Interstate Commerce in the United States.
November 19 – C. Northcote Parkinson first
propounds 'Parkinson's Law', in The Economist.
November 20 – Bo Diddley makes his television
debut on Ed Sullivan's Toast Of The Town show for the CBS-TV network.
November 26 – The British Governor of Cyprus
declares a State of Emergency on the island.



January




January 2 – José Antonio Remón Cantera,
president of Panama, is assassinated at a race track in Panama City.

January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes
president of Panama.

January 7 – Marian Anderson is the first
African American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

January 18–January 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan
Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from
the Republic of China (Taiwan).

January 19 – The game Scrabble debuts.

January 22 – The Pentagon announces a plan to
develop ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) armed with nuclear weapons.

January 23 – Sutton Coldfield rail crash
kills 17 near Birmingham, England.

January 25 – Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany,
which began during World War II in 1941.

January 28 – United States Congress
authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Formosa from the People's Republic of China.


February


February 1 – Ray Kroc opens a McDonald's fast
food restaurant (the company's 9th since it was founded in 1940), but Kroc later takes over the company and oversees its worldwide expansion.

February 4 – Pact of Mutual Cooperation
"Baghdad Pact" signed.

February 10 – Seventh Fleet of the United
States Navy helps the Republic of China evacuate Chinese Nationalist army and
residents from the Tachen Islands to Taiwan.

February 12 – U.S. President Dwight D.
Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam.

February 16 – Nearly 100 die in a fire at a home for the elderly in Yokohama, Japan.

February 19 – Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization established.

February 22 – In Chicago's Democratic primary,
Mayor Martin H. Kennelly loses to the head of the Cook County Democratic Party,
Richard J. Daley, 364,839 to 264,77.




March


March 2 – Claudette Colvin (a fifteen year
old African American girl) refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white woman after the driver demands it. She is carried off the
bus backwards whilst being kicked and handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station.

March 5 – WBBJ-TV signs on the air in the Jackson, Tennessee, with WDXI as its initial call-letters, to expanded American commercial television in
mostly-rural areas.

March 7 – The Broadway musical version of Peter Pan, which had opened in 1954 starring Mary Martin, is presented on television for the first time by NBC-TV
with its original cast, as an installment of Producers' Showcase. It is also the first time that a stage musical is presented in its entirety on TV almost
exactly as it was performed on stage. This program gains the largest viewership of a TV special up to this time, and it becomes one of the first great TV
family musical classics.

March 17 – The Richard Riot occurs in Montreal.

March 19 – KXTV of Stockton, California, signs on the air in the United States, being the 100th commercial television station in this country.

March 20 – Evan Hunter's movie adaptation of the novel Blackboard Jungle premieres in
the United States, featuring the famous single, Rock Around the Clock, by Bill Haley and His Comets. Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to the song.


April


April 1 – EOKA A starts a revolution British
rule in Cyprus (taken over from the Ottoman Empire in 1878 and a Crown Colony
since 1925).

April 5 Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Richard J. Daley defeats Robert Merrian to
become Mayor of Chicago by a vote of 708,222 to 581,555.

April 6 – Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom.

April 11 – The Taiwanese Kuomintang put a time-bomb on the airplane Kashmir Princess,
killing 16 but failing to assassinate the People's Republic of China leader, Zhou Enlai.

April 12 – The Salk polio vaccine, having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the FDA.

April 14 – The Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup for the 7th time in franchise history. Detroit wouldn't win the Cup again until 1997.

April 15 – Middle East Treaty Organization (MENTO).

April 16 – Burma-Japanese peace treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954, comes
into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries that had not existed for a long time.

April 17 – Imre Nagy, the communist Premier of Hungary, is ousted for being too
moderate.

April 18–April 24 – Asian-African Conference held in Indonesia.

May


May 1 – Warsaw Treaty on Friendship,
Cooperation and Mutual Assistance signed (Warsaw Treaty Organization) (effective
June 6).

May 5 – West Germany becomes a sovereign country recognized by important Western
foreign countries, such as France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United
States.

May 6 – WEU charter effective.

May 9 – West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

May 10 – Mark David Chapman, the man who, in 1980, shoot and brutally kill former
Beatle John Lennon, is born.

May 11 – Japanese National Railways' ferry Shiun Maru sinks after collision with sister ship Uko Maru in thick fog off Takamatsu, Shikoku, in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan; 166 passengers (many children) and two crew are killed. This event is influential in plans to construct the Akashi-Kaikyō Bridge (built
1986-98).

May 12– New York's Third Avenue Elevated runs its last train between Chathem Square
in Manhattan and East 149th Street in the Bronx, thus ending elevated train service in Manhattan.

May 14 – Eight Communist Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual
defence treaty in Warsaw, Poland, that is called the Warsaw Pact.

May 15 – Austrian State Treaty, which restores Austria's national sovereignty, is
concluded between the four occupying powers following World War II (the United
Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France) and Austria, setting it up as a neutral country.

May 25 – Joe Brown and George Band are the first to attain the summit of Kanchenjunga
in the Himalayas, as part of a British team led by Charles Evans.

June


June 7 – The TV quiz program The $64,000
Question premieres on CBS-TV in the United States, with Hal March as the host.

June 11 – Le Mans disaster: eighty-three people are killed and at least 100 are injured after two race cars collide in the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans.

June 13 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the Soviet Union, is discovered.

June 16 – Lady and the Tramp, the Walt Disney company's 15th animated film, premieres in Chicago, Illinois.

July


July 7 – The New Zealand Special Air Service
is formed.

July 13 – Ruth Ellis (born 1926) is hanged for murder in London, becoming the last
woman ever to be executed in the United Kingdom.

July 17 – The American Broadcasting Company broadcasts a sneak preview of Disneyland
in Anaheim, California.

July 18 Disneyland opens to the public in Anaheim, California. The first nuclear-generated electrical power is sold commercially, partially powering the town of Arco, Idaho. The Illinois Governor, William Stratton, signs the "Loyalty Oath Act", passed
by the State Legislature, which mandates all public employees take a loyalty oath to Illinois and the United States, or lose their jobs.
The first Geneva Summit meeting between the United States, the Soviet Union, the
United Kingdom, and France begins. It ends on July 23.

July 27 – El Al Flight 402 from Vienna,
Austria to Tel Aviv-Yafo via Istanbul is shot down over Bulgaria. All 58 passengers and crewmen aboard the Lockheed Constellation airplane are killed.

July 28 – The first Interlingua Congress in Tours, France, leading to foundation of the Union Mundial pro Interlingua.


August

August 19: Hurricane Diane August 19 –
Hurricane Diane hits the northeastern United States, killing over 200 people,
and causing over $1.0 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.

August 25 – The last Soviet Army occupation forces leave Austria.

August 27 – First edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published, in London.


September


September 30: James Dean dies in a car wreck.
September 2 – Under the guidance of Dr Humphry Osmond, Christopher Mayhew ingests 400 mg of mescaline hydrochloride and allows himself to be filmed as part of a Panorama special for BBC TV that was never broadcast.

September 6 – Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's
Greek minority is the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.

September 10 – The long-running program
Gunsmoke debuts on the CBS-TV network.
September 14 – Pope Pius XII elevates many of
the Apostolic Vicariates in Africa to Metropolitan Archdioceses

September 15 – Vladimir Nabokov's
controversial novel Lolita is published in Paris by Olympia Press.

September 19–September 21 – The President of
Argentina, Juan Peron, is ousted in a military coup.
September 19 – Hurricane Hilda kills about 200
people in Mexico.

September 22 – Independent Commercial
Television (ITV) begins broadcasting in the United Kingdom.

September 23 – Alec Guinness meets the actor
James Dean. Guinness supposedly has a premonition of Dean's death.

September 24 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
of the United States suffers a coronary thrombosis while on vacation in Denver,
Colorado.

September 30 – Actor James Dean is killed when
his automobile collides with another car at a highway junction near Cholame, California. Dean is just 24 years old.

October


October 2 – Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV
program debuts on the NBC-TV network in the United States.

October 3 – The Mickey Mouse Club TV program
debuts on the ABC-TV network in the United States.

October 4 The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is
released from prison in Seoul, South Korea.
The Brooklyn Dodgers finally win the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees 2–0 in Game 7 of the 1955 baseball playoff.

October 5 – Disneyland Hotel opens to the
public in Anaheim, California.

October 11 – 70-mm film for projection is
introduced with the theatrical release of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical film, Oklahoma!

October 14 – ODECA secretariat inaugurated.

October 20 The first footage of Elvis Presley
is filmed as part of a film short about the Cleveland, Ohio, disc jockey Bill Randle.
Cardiff is announced as the capital city of
the principality of Wales, within the United Kingdom.

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

Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam to be a republic with himself as its President and forms the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.

October 29 – Soviet battleship Novorossiysk
explodes at moorings in Sevastopol Bay, killing 608, the Soviet Union's worst naval disaster.



October 26: Austria free. November 1 – The
Vietnam War begins between the South Vietnam Army and the North Vietnam Army in
which the latter is allied with the Viet Cong. A time bomb explodes in the
cargo hold of United Airlines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6B airliner flying above
Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board.


November


November 3 – The five-and-one-half-mile long
Rimutaka Railroad tunnel opens in New Zealand.

November 5 – Racial segregation is outlawed on
trains and buses in Interstate Commerce in the United States.

November 19 – C. Northcote Parkinson first
propounds 'Parkinson's Law', in The Economist.

November 20 – Bo Diddley makes his television
debut on Ed Sullivan's Toast Of The Town show for the CBS-TV network.

November 26 – The British Governor of Cyprus
declares a State of Emergency on the island.



December


December 14: Tappan Zee Bridge opens.

December 5 The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial

Organizations merge to become the AFL-CIO.

The Montgomery Improvement Association is formed in Montgomery, Alabama, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other Black ministers to coordinate a Black
people's boycott of all city buses.

December 9 – Adnan Menderes of DP forms the
new government of Turkey (22nd government)

December 14 The Tappan Zee Bridge in New York
opens to traffic.

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland,
Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sri Lanka join the United Nations simultaneously, after several years of
moratorium on admitting new members that began during the Korean War.

December 22 – American cytogeneticist Joe Hin
Tjio discovers the correct number of human chromosomes, forty-six.

December 31 – General Motors Corporation
becomes the first American corporation to make a profit of over one billion dollars in one year.

Strömsund Bridge in Sweden is completed,
being the first significant cable-stayed bridge of the modern era


World population


World population: 2,755,823,000

Africa: 246,746,000

Asia: 1,541,947,000

Europe: 575,184,000

South America: 190,797,000

North America: 186,884,000

Oceania: 14,265,000


September 30: James Dean dies in a car wreck.

September 30: James Dean dies in a car wreck.

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on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.



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Academy Awards


Best Picture: Marty - Hecht-Lancaster
Best Director: Delbert Mann - Marty
Best Actor: Ernest Borgnine - Marty Best
Actress: Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts
Best Supporting
Actress: Jo Van Fleet - East of Eden


Top films of 1955


Lady and the Tramp
Mister Roberts
Guys and Dolls
Rebel Without a Cause
The Seven Year Itch
Picnic
Oklahoma!
Love Me or Leave Me
The Sea Chase
East of Eden

Films of 1955


Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, starring Bud
Abbott and Lou Costello
Abbott and Costello
Meet the Mummy, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Above Us the Waves,
starring John Mills - (U.K.)
The Adventures of
Quentin Durward, starring Robert Taylor and Kay Kendall
All That Heaven
Allows, starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson
Anděl na horách -
(Czechoslovakia)
Apache Ambush
Artists and Models,
starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
Bad Day at Black
Rock, directed by John Sturges, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Ernest
Borgnine, Lee Marvin and Anne Francis
Battle Cry, starring
Van Heflin, Aldo Ray and Anne Francis
Battle Taxi starring
Sterling Hayden, Arthur Franz and Marshall Thompson
The Big Combo,
starring Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy and Jean Wallace
The Big Knife,
starring Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger and Shelley Winters
Blackboard Jungle,
starring Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Sidney Poitier and Vic Morrow
Blood Alley, starring
John Wayne and Lauren Bacall
The Brain Machine
directed by Ken Hughes (U.K.)
Carrington V.C.,
starring David Niven - (U.K.)
Cast a Dark Shadow,
starring Dirk Bogarde - (U.K.)
Chief Crazy Horse
Cinerama Holiday
The Cobweb, directed
by Vincente Minelli, starring Richard Widmark, Gloria Grahame and Lauren Bacall
The Cockleshell
Heroes, directed by and starring José Ferrer with Trevor Howard - (U.K.)
The Colditz Story,
directed by Guy Hamilton, starring John Mills and Eric Portman - (U.K.)
Confession directed
by Ken Hughes (U.K.)
Confidential Report,
starring Orson Welles and Michael Redgrave - (France/Spain/Switzerland)
Continente Perduto
(aka Lost Continent), a documentary from (Italy)
Count Three and Pray,
starring Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward and Raymond Burr
The Court-Martial of
Billy Mitchell, starring Gary Cooper
The Criminal Life of
Archibaldo de la Cruz (Ensayo de un Crimen), directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico)
Daddy Long Legs,
starring Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron
The Dam Busters,
starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave - (U.K.)
Davy Crockett, King
of the Wild Frontier
Death of a Cyclist
(Muerte de un ciclista), directed by Juan Antonio Bardem - (Spain)
The Deep Blue Sea,
starring Vivien Leigh - (U.K.)
The Desperate Hours,
starring Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March
Devdas - (India)
Les Diaboliques (The
Devils), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret - (France)
East of Eden, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Julie Harris,
James Dean (in his first major role) and Raymond Massey
The Far Country,
directed by Anthony Mann, starring James Stewart
The Far Horizons,
starring Fred MacMurray and Charlton Heston
The Fast and the
Furious, starring John Ireland and Dorothy Malone
Floating Clouds
(Ukigumo) - (Japan)
Footsteps in the Fog,
starring Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons - (U.K.)
Galapagos, a documentary
by Thor Heyerdahl - (Norway)
A Generation
(Pokolenie), directed by Andrzej Wajda - (Poland)
Godzilla Raids Again
(Gojira no Gyakushū) - (Japan)
Guys and Dolls,
starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine
Hit the Deck,
starring Jane Powell and Debbye Reynolds directed by Roy Rowland
House of Bamboo,
starring Robert Ryan
How to Be Very, Very
Popular, starring Betty Grable in her final film role
I Live in Fear
(Ikimono no kiroku), directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)
I'll Cry Tomorrow,
starring Susan Hayward
Illegal, a film noir
starring Edward G. Robinson and Jayne Mansfield
Interrupted Melody,
starring Eleanor Parker and Glenn Ford
It Came from Beneath
the Sea
It Happened on July
20th (Es geschah am 20. Juli), directed by G. W. Pabst - (Austria)
It's Always Fair
Weather, starring Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Michael Kidd and Cyd Charisse
Jedda - (Australia)
John and Julie
starring Peter Sellers and Sid James - (U.K.)
Kiss Me Deadly, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Ralph
Meeker
Lady and the Tramp,
an animated Disney musical featuring the voice of Peggy Lee
The Ladykillers,
directed by Alexander MacKendrick, starring Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker,
Herbert Lom and Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
Land of the Pharaohs,
starring Joan Collins and Jack Hawkins
The Left Hand of God,
starring Humphrey Bogart and Gene Tierney
Little Red Monkey,
directed by Ken Hughes (U.K.)
Lola Montès, directed
by Max Ophuls - (France)
The Long Gray Line,
starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara
Love Is a
Many-Splendored Thing, starring William Holden and Jennifer Jones
Love Me or Leave Me,
starring Doris Day and James Cagney
Lucy Gallant
(reissued as Oil Town)
The Man from
Laramie, starring James Stewart
The Man with the
Golden Arm, starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker and Kim Novak
Man Without a Star
Marty, directed by
Delbert Mann, starring Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair
The Miracle of
Marcelino (Marcelino Pan Y Vino) - (Spain)
Mister Roberts,
starring Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell and Jack Lemmon
Moonfleet
Mr. Arkadin, directed
by and starring Orson Welles - (France/Spain/Switzerland)
My Sister Eileen,
starring Janet Leigh and Betty Garrett
Night and Fog, a documentary directed by Alain Resnais -
(France)
The Night My Number
Came Up, starring Michael Redgrave - (U.K.)
The Night of the
Hunter, directed by Charles Laughton, starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley
Winters
Not as a Stranger,
starring Olivia de Havilland and Gloria Grahame
Oklahoma! (first film
shot in widescreen process known as Todd-AO), starring Gordon MacRae, Shirley
Jones, Rod Steiger, Gloria Grahame, and Gene Nelson
Ordet, directed by
Carl Theodor Dreyer - (Denmark)
Othello, starring
Sergei Bondarchuk - (U.S.S.R.)
Pather Panchali,
directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
Pete Kelly's Blues,
starring Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien and Peggy Lee. Also features
Jayne Mansfield as a cigarette girl.
The Phenix City Story
Picnic, starring
William Holden and Kim Novak
Prince of Players,
starring Richard Burton
Princess Yang
Kwei-Fei - (Japan)
The Prisoner - (U.K.)
The Private War of
Major Benson, starring Charlton Heston
The Prodigal,
starring Lana Turner
The Quatermass
Xperiment, which probably qualifies as the first Hammer horror film - (U.K.)
Queen Bee, starring
Joan Crawford
Die Ratten (The
Rats), starring Maria Schell and Curd Jürgens - (West Germany) - Golden Bear
award
Rage at Dawn
The Rains of
Ranchipur, starring Lana Turner and Richard Burton
Rebel Without a
Cause, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring James Dean, Sal Mineo and Natalie
Wood
Reluctant Bride -
(U.K.)
Richard III, directed
by and starring Laurence Olivier with Ralph Richardson, Claire Bloom and John
Gielgud - (U.K.)
Rififi (Du rififi
chez les hommes), directed by Jules Dassin - (France)
The Rose Tattoo,
starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster
Samurai II: Duel at
Ichijoji Temple (Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijōji no kettō) - (Japan)
Scandal in Sorrento
(Pane, amore e...), starring Vittorio De Sica and Sophia Loren - (Italy)
The Scarlet Coat
The Sea Chase,
starring John Wayne and Lana Turner
Seema - (India)
The Seven Little
Foys, starring Bob Hope
The Seven Year Itch,
starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell
Shree 420, directed
by and starring Raj Kapoor with Nargis - (India)
Sissi, starring Romy
Schneider - (Austria)
Six Bridges to Cross,
starring Tony Curtis
Smiles of a Summer
Night (Sommarnattens leende), directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
Strategic Air
Command, starring James Stewart
Stella, directed by
Michael Cacoyannis, starring Melina Mercouri - (Greece)
Summertime, directed
by David Lean and starring Katharine Hepburn - (U.K./U.S.)
The Swindlers (Il
bidone), directed by Federico Fellini, starring Broderick Crawford - (Italy)
Tarantula
The Tender Trap,
starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds
This Island Earth,
starring Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, and Faith Domergue
Three for the Show,
starring Betty Grable
To Catch a Thief,
directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly
To Hell and Back
starring Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, and David Janssen
The Treasure of
Pancho Villa
Trial
The Trouble with
Harry, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe and
Shirley MacLaine
Unknown Soldier
(Tuntematon sotilas) - (Finland)
Unchained
Underwater!
The Violent Men,
starring Glenn Ford and Barbara Stanwyck
The Virgin Queen,
starring Bette Davis
We're No Angels, starring Humphrey Bogart and
Peter Ustinov
White Feather
Wichita
You're Never Too
Young, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis


Serials and cartoons


The Adventures of
Captain Africa
King of the Carnival
Panther Girl of the
Kongo
Looney Tunes
(1930–1969)
Terrytoons
(1930–1964)
Merrie Melodies
(1931–1969)
Popeye (1933–1957)
Donald Duck
(1934–1956)
The Three Stooges
(1934–1959)
Tom and Jerry
(1940–1958)
Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
Mighty Mouse
(1942-1955)
Chip and Dale
(1943–1956)
Droopy (1943–1958)
Yosemite Sam
(1945–1963)
Ranger Don
(1953–1956)
Speedy Gonzales
(1953–1968)


Births (Film Community)

January 6 - Rowan
Atkinson, English comedian and actor
January 9 - J. K.
Simmons, American actor
January 18 - Kevin
Costner, American actor, producer and director
February 7 - Miguel
Ferrer, American actor
February 15 -
Christopher McDonald, American actor
February 19 - Jeff
Daniels, American actor
March 9 - Ornella
Muti, Italian actress
March 17 - Gary
Sinise, American actor, producer and director
March 19 - Bruce
Willis, American actor
March 22 - Lena Olin,
Swedish actress
April 23 - Judy
Davis, Australian actress
May 16 - Debra
Winger, American actress
May 17 - Bill Paxton,
American actor
May 18 - Chow
Yun-fat, Hong Kong actor
May 31 - Susie
Essman, American actress
June 2 - Dana Carvey,
American actor and comedian
June 8 - Griffin
Dunne, American actor and director
June 9 - Jimmy Smits,
American actor
June 27 - Isabelle
Adjani, French actress
July 22 - Willem
Dafoe, American actor
August 4 - Billy Bob
Thornton, American actor, director and screenwriter
August 19 - Peter
Gallagher, American actor
August 27 - Diana
Scarwid, American actress
November 13 - Whoopi
Goldberg, American actress and comedienne
December 3 - Melody
Anderson, Canadian actress



Deaths (Film Community)



February 12 - Tom
Moore, American actor
April 7 - Theda Bara,
American actress
August 5 - Carmen
Miranda, Brazilian singer, actress
September 30 - James
Dean, American actor
October 1 - Charles
Christie, Canadian pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood
November 22 - Shemp
Howard, American actor, comedian, of The Three Stooges

Film Debuts


James Dean
Angie Dickinson
Clint Eastwood
Dennis Hopper
Shirley MacLaine
Walter Matthau
Melina Mercouri
Elizabeth Montgomery

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Churchill resigns as PM of Great Britain. He is succeeded by Anthony Eden.

West Germany becomes sovereign state, joins NATO.

Soviet Union and seven East European countries sign the Warsaw Pact.

Juan Peron is deposed in Argentina.

US begins sending aid to Vietnam.

The popularity of TV rises around the Western world

Nikolai Bulganin becomes Soviet Premier. Pentagon announces plan to develop ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) armed with nuclear weapons.

Fighting continues between the Chinese Nationalist Army and the Republic of China.

China succeeds in consolidating the mainland while the remnants of the ROC seek refuge in Formosa.

Anti-French uprisings continue in Algeria.

Mau Mau uprising continues in Africa

Albert Einstein dies

The Fifties

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