What is 1955?
{{Year nav|1955}} {{Year in various calendars|1955}} '''1955''' ([[Roman numerals|MCMLV]]) was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], the 1955th year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and ''[[Anno Domini]]'' (AD) designations, {{Year article header/year number|1955}}. == Events == * [[January 2]] – [[Panama]] president [[Jose Antonio Remon]] is killed. * [[January 7]] – [[Marian Anderson]] becomes the first [[African-American people|African-American]] person to sing at the [[Metropolitan Opera]] in [[New York City]] * [[January 19]] - The ''[[Scrabble]]'' [[board game]] debuts. * [[February 8]] – [[Nikolai Bulganin]] ousts [[Georgi Malenkov]] * [[February 9]] – [[Apartheid in South Africa]]: 60,000 non-white people who live in a [[suburb]] of [[Johannesburg]] are forced to leave their homes * [[February 13]] – [[Israel]] gets 4 of the 7 [[Dead Sea scrolls]]. * [[February 23]] – First meeting of the [[Southeast Asia Treaty Organization]] (SEATO). * March: [[Jim Henson]] builds the first version of [[Kermit the Frog]] * [[March 2]]: ** King [[Norodom Sihanouk]] of [[Cambodia]] gave up the throne in favor of his father, King [[Norodom Suramarit]]. ** Much [[flood]]ing in North and Western [[Australia]] – 200 humans and tens of thousands of [[sheep]] dead, 44.000 [[Homelessness|homeless]] * [[March 15]]- Fedral ALP (Australian Labor Party) split (a) * [[April 5]] – [[Winston Churchill]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] because of health problems. He is 80 years old * [[April 12]] – [[Jonas Salk|Jonas Salk's]] [[polio vaccine]] is approved by the United States [[Food and Drug Administration]] * [[April 15]] – [[Ray Kroc]] opens the first [[McDonald's]] in [[Illinois]] * [[April 7]] – [[Anthony Eden]] becomes [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] * [[July 18]] – [[Disneyland]] opens in [[Anaheim, California]] * [[October 14]] – Pakistan changed the name of [[Bangladesh#History|East Bengal]] province to [[Bangladesh#History|East Pakistan]]. Before the independence of the