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| 1955 |
| | | Russia forms the Warsaw Treaty Organization (or Warsaw Pact) with her east European allies, as a counterbalance to NATO | |
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| c. 1955 |
| | | Kingsley Amis and other young writers in Britain become known as Angry Young Men | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis forms his own quintet, extending it in 1958 to a sextet | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American is set in contemporary Vietnam and foresees troubles ahead | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Thomas Mann publishes a longer but still incomplete version of his novel Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Nasser alarms the west by buying eastern-bloc arms through Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Austria achieves a much delayed return to nationhood after the Soviet Union finally agrees to withdraw from the country | |
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| 1955 |
| | | The first Disneyland opens in California, an event watched on television by 90 million Americans | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Konrad Adenauer negotiates the release of the last 10,000 German prisoners of war held in the USSR | |
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| 1955 |
| | | James Dean is type-cast as the young lead in Rebel without a Cause | |
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| 1955 |
| | | English poet Philip Larkin finds his distinctive voice in his collection The Less Deceived | |
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| 1955 |
| | | British dancer Joan Benesh and her husband Rudolf develop the Benesh system of dance notation | |
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| c. 1955 |
| | | Archaeologists at Olympia excavate the workshop of the Greek classical sculptor Phidias | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Indian director Satyajit Ray makes his first film, Pather Panchali | |
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| 1955 |
| | | A military uprising in Argentina forces Perón to resign and go into exile | |
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| 1955 |
| | | With US backing, South Vietnam declares itself an independent republic | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is performed in New York | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Baptist pastor Martin Luther King leads the Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Edna Everage, created by Australian satirist Barry Humphries, makes her first appearance in a Melbourne revue | |
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| 1955 |
| | | British philologist J.R.R. Tolkien publishes the third and final volume of his epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Ruth Ellis, sentenced to death for the murder of an unfaithful lover, is the last woman to be hanged in Britain | |
|  | Record of Ruth Ellis's execution in 1955
National Archives, Kew
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| 1955 |
| | | Anthony Eden moves Harold Macmillan to a new position, as chancellor of the exchequer | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Sudan between the Muslim north and the Christian south | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Heartbreak Hotel, Presley's first recording for RCA, goes to the top of all three US charts | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The Sudan, declining the opportunity of union with Egypt, opts for independence as a separate state | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Brigitte Bardot is directed by her husband Roger Vadim in his first film, And God Created Woman | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Nikita Khrushchev denounces Stalin, dead now for three years, at a party congress in the USSR | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Jerome Robbins creates the ballet The Concert, to music by Chopin | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The musical My Fair Lady, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, opens on Broadway | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Tunisia wins independence from France, with Habib Bourguiba as prime minister | |
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| 1956 |
| | | French Morocco and Spanish Morocco win independence from the two colonial powers | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The English Stage Company, founded by George Devine, opens in London's Royal Court Theatre | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The first true synthesizer is put on the market by RCA Victor | |
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| 1956 |
| | | English poet Ted Hughes marries US poet Sylvia Plath | |
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