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| 1955 |
| | Michael Tippett's first opera, A Midsummer Marriage, has its premiere at Covent Garden | |
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| 1955 |
| | Norodom Sihanouk abdicates as king of Cambodia and becomes the country's prime minister | |
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| 1955 |
| | Swedish director Ingmar Bergman wins international fame with his film Smiles of a Summer Night | |
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| c. 1955 |
| | Ellaline Terriss, heart-throb of the Edwardian stage and now in her eighties, moves into 1 St Helena Terrace | |
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| 1955 |
| | Elia Kazan directs James Dean in East of Eden | |
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| 1955 |
| | Richard Daley begins a powerful and often unscrupulous reign of 22 years as mayor of Chicago | |
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| 1955 |
| | An armed uprising in Morocco persuades France to accept the principle of independence for the colony | |
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| 1955 |
| | 81-year-old Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's prime minister and is succeeded by Anthony Eden | |
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| 1955 |
| | The new UK prime minister, Anthony Eden, gives Harold Macmillan the post of foreign secretary | |
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| 1955 |
| | Canadian pianist Glenn Gould wins international fame with his recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations | |
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