The Year 1955
History and Politics
USSR decrees end of war with Germany.
Malenkov resigns; succeeded by N A Bulganin.
Italy, W. Germany, and France establish European Union.
Churchill risigns; succeeded by Anthony Eden.
Giovanni Gronchi elected President of Italy.
Germany becomes NATO member.
The Vienna Treaty restores Austria's independence.
Railroad and dock strikes in Britian.
President Eisenhower suffers heart attack.
Raids on Isreal-Jordan border increase.
Walter White, US civil rights leader dies.
US Air Force Academy opens, modeled after West Point and Annapolis.
AFL and CIO merge; new president George Meany.
Blacks in Montgomery, Ala., boycott segregated city bus lines.
President Eisenhower appoints John M. Harlan to the US supreme Court.
Ultra high frequency waves produced at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Atomically generated power first used in the US, (Schenectady, N.Y.)
Dorothy Hodgkin discovers a liver extract for treating pernicious anemia, (vitamin B12)
Frederick Sanger determines the molecular structure of insulin.
Albert Einstein dies.
Bundy, Hall, Strong, and Wentorf report on teh artificial manufacture of diamonds at 2,700 degrees C.
Gordon Pirie, with a time of 29.19 munites, wins 10,000-meter run against Zatopek.
"Sugar" Ray Robinson wins world boxing championship from Carl "Bobo" Olson.
82 die in a disaster at the Le Mans car race.
Commercial TV begins broadcasting in Britian.
Universal Copyright Convention takes effect.
US and USSR announce that they will launch earth satellites in the International Goephysical Year 1957-58.
US Gross National Product rises to $397.5 billion.
US Lawn Tennis Singles won by Tony Trabert, women's won by Doris Hart.
Ohio State defeats Southern California in Rose Bowl, 20-7.
"Nashua" Eddie Arcaro up, wins Preakness and Belmont Stakes.
Brooklyn (NL) defeats New York (AL) in World Series, 4-3.
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