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| 1954 |
| | | Le Corbusier completes the reinforced-concrete pilgrimage church of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp | |
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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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| 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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