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1955
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1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1955th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 955th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1950s decade.

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Clockwse from top left: PLA troops assaulting Nationalist positions in Battle of Yijiangshan Islands; The 1955 Le Mans disaster, the deadliest accident in motorsport history; Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California; Weather map of Hurricane Diane as it neared North Carolina; Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets tops the charts and is widely credited with bringing rock and roll into the mainstream.; Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after her arrest for boycotting public transportation; Saigon City Hall display The results of the 1955 State of Vietnam referendum; the Conference that during which the Warsaw Pact was established and signed; Plenary session during the Bandung Conference.
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Events

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January 7: Marian Anderson at the Met
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January 22: ICBM

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April 15: McDonald's

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August 19: Hurricane Diane

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September 18: Britain annexes Rockall

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October 26: Austria free

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December 14: Tappan Zee Bridge opens

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
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Births

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Rowan Atkinson
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J. K. Simmons
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Kevin Costner
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Sir Simon Rattle
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Olivier Assayas
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Eddie Van Halen
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John Roberts
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Vinod Khosla
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Nicolas Sarkozy
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Mychal Thompson

February

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Mo Yan
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Jeff Daniels
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Kelsey Grammer
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Steve Jobs
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Alain Prost
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Leann Hunley
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Grady Booch

March

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Penn Jillette
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Nina Hagen
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Gary Sinise
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Jair Bolsonaro
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Bruce Willis
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Mariano Rajoy
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Reba McEntire
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Brendan Gleeson
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Marina Sirtis
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Angus Young

April

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Sirindhorn
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Michael Rooker
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Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
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Judy Davis
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John Nunn
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Eddie Jobson
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Kate Mulgrew

May

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Tom Bergeron
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Big Van Vader
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Debra Winger
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Bill Paxton
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Chow Yun-fat
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James Gosling
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Rosanne Cash
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Richard Schiff
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John Hinckley Jr.
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Tommy Emmanuel
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Susie Essman

June

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Dana Carvey
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Sam Simon
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Tim Richmond
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Griffin Dunne
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Laurie Metcalf
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Michel Platini
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Isabelle Adjani
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee

July

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Li Keqiang
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Lindsey Graham
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Jimmy Smits
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Adrienne King
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Dannel Malloy
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Béla Tarr
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Willem Dafoe
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Iman
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Asif Ali Zardari

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Billy Bob Thornton
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Richard Hilton
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Apisai Ielemia
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Mike Huckabee
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Sergey Khlebnikov

September

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Billy Blanks
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John Kricfalusi
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Edward Hibbert
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Pope Leo XIV
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Charles Martinet
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Zucchero Fornaciari

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Tommy Wiseau
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Yo-Yo Ma
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Bill Gates
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Indra Nooyi

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Kris Jenner
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Maria Shriver
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Roland Emmerich
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Friedrich Merz
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Whoopi Goldberg
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Guillermo Lasso
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Bill Nye
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Howie Mandel

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Xander Berkeley
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Jane Kaczmarek

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Hans Hedtoft

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Constantin Argetoianu

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Sir Alexander Fleming

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Albert Einstein

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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Walter Hampden

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Adolfo de la Huerta

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Carmen Miranda

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James Dean

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José Ortega y Gasset

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Shemp Howard

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Hermann Weyl

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