1955 Clay Tablet
Mairi Moore – From the Brandywine School District Office for allowing me to scan several yearbooks and really getting this archive started. Unlike most of us, she has access to several yearbooks that were left behind within the confines of the Brandywine School District.Thank you Mairi
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1955 in Review
1955
[Courtesy of Wikipedia]
World Events
January 22 – The Pentagon announces a plan to develop ICBMs
(intercontinental ballistic missiles) armed with nuclear weapons.
February 1 – Ray Kroc opens a McDonald’s fast food restaurant (the company’s 9th since it was founded in 1940),
but Kroc later takes over the company and oversees its worldwide expansion.
February 12 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam.
April 5 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
April 12 – The Salk polio vaccine, having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the FDA.
May 14 – Eight Communist Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence treaty in Warsaw, Poland, that is called the Warsaw Pact.
June 7 – The TV quiz program The $64,000 Question premieres on CBS-TV in the United States, with Hal March as the host.
July 17 – The Disneyland Amusement Park opens in Anaheim, California.
August 27 – First edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published, in London.
September 30 – Actor James Dean is killed when his automobile collides with another car at a highway junction near Cholame, California.
Dean is just 24 years old.
October 2 – Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV program debuts on the NBC-TV network in the United States.
October 3 – The Mickey Mouse Club TV program debuts on the ABC-TV network in the United States.
December 1 – Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person, and the national civil rights movement begins.
December 31 — General Motors Corporation becomes the first American corporation to make a profit of over one billion dollars in one year.
Celebrities Born/died in this Year
January 18 – Kevin Costner, American actor, born
January 26 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-born rock musician (Van Halen), born
February 8 – John Grisham, American novelist, born
February 19 – Jeff Daniels, American actor, born
February 20 – Kelsey Grammer, American actor, born
February 24 – Steve Jobs, American computer pioneer, born
March 5 – Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian, born
March 8 – William C. deMille, American screenwriter and director , died (b. 1878)
March 19 – Bruce Willis, American actor, born
March 23 – Moses Malone, American basketball player, born
April 18 – Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate , died (b. 1879)
June 22 – Glenn Danzig, American rock singer (The Misfits, Samhain, Danzig), born
August 8 – Grace Hartman, American actress , died (b. 1907)
October 28 – Bill Gates, American software entrepreneur, born
November 1 – Dale Carnegie, American writer and lecturer, died (b. 1888)>/p>
November 4 – Cy Young, American baseball player, died (b. 1867)
Popular Songs of the Year
“Mr Sandman” – The Chordettes
“Let Me Go, Lover” – Joan Weber
“Hearts of Stone” – Fontane Sisters
“Sincerely” – McGuire Sisters
“The Ballad of Davy Crockett” – Bill Hayes
“Dance With Me Henry (Wallflower)” – Georgia Gibbs
“Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)” – Pérez Prado
“Rock Around the Clock” – Bill Haley & His Comets
“Ain’t That a Shame” – Pat Boone
“The Yellow Rose of Texas” – Mitch Miller
“Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” – Four Aces
“Sixteen Tons” – Tennessee Ernie
[Courtesy of Wikipedia]
World Events
January 22 – The Pentagon announces a plan to develop ICBMs
(intercontinental ballistic missiles) armed with nuclear weapons.
February 1 – Ray Kroc opens a McDonald’s fast food restaurant (the company’s 9th since it was founded in 1940),
but Kroc later takes over the company and oversees its worldwide expansion.
February 12 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam.
April 5 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
April 12 – The Salk polio vaccine, having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the FDA.
May 14 – Eight Communist Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence treaty in Warsaw, Poland, that is called the Warsaw Pact.
June 7 – The TV quiz program The $64,000 Question premieres on CBS-TV in the United States, with Hal March as the host.
July 17 – The Disneyland Amusement Park opens in Anaheim, California.
August 27 – First edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published, in London.
September 30 – Actor James Dean is killed when his automobile collides with another car at a highway junction near Cholame, California.
Dean is just 24 years old.
October 2 – Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV program debuts on the NBC-TV network in the United States.
October 3 – The Mickey Mouse Club TV program debuts on the ABC-TV network in the United States.
December 1 – Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person, and the national civil rights movement begins.
December 31 — General Motors Corporation becomes the first American corporation to make a profit of over one billion dollars in one year.
Celebrities Born/died in this Year
January 18 – Kevin Costner, American actor, born
January 26 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-born rock musician (Van Halen), born
February 8 – John Grisham, American novelist, born
February 19 – Jeff Daniels, American actor, born
February 20 – Kelsey Grammer, American actor, born
February 24 – Steve Jobs, American computer pioneer, born
March 5 – Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian, born
March 8 – William C. deMille, American screenwriter and director , died (b. 1878)
March 19 – Bruce Willis, American actor, born
March 23 – Moses Malone, American basketball player, born
April 18 – Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate , died (b. 1879)
June 22 – Glenn Danzig, American rock singer (The Misfits, Samhain, Danzig), born
August 8 – Grace Hartman, American actress , died (b. 1907)
October 28 – Bill Gates, American software entrepreneur, born
November 1 – Dale Carnegie, American writer and lecturer, died (b. 1888)>/p>
November 4 – Cy Young, American baseball player, died (b. 1867)
Popular Songs of the Year
“Mr Sandman” – The Chordettes
“Let Me Go, Lover” – Joan Weber
“Hearts of Stone” – Fontane Sisters
“Sincerely” – McGuire Sisters
“The Ballad of Davy Crockett” – Bill Hayes
“Dance With Me Henry (Wallflower)” – Georgia Gibbs
“Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)” – Pérez Prado
“Rock Around the Clock” – Bill Haley & His Comets
“Ain’t That a Shame” – Pat Boone
“The Yellow Rose of Texas” – Mitch Miller
“Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” – Four Aces
“Sixteen Tons” – Tennessee Ernie
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1955 Clay Tablet Image Index
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