December 1955 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1955 Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of bus
• 03 Dec 1955 KTVE TV channel 10 in Monroe-El Dorado, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 05 Dec 1955 Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery, Alabama, by Rosa Parks.
• 06 Dec 1955 New York psychologist Joyce Brothers wins TV's "$64,000 Question" on boxing.
• 08 Dec 1955 21st Heisman Trophy Award: Howard Cassady, Ohio State (HB).
• 09 Dec 1955 Adnan Menderes of DP forms the new government of Turkey (22nd government)
• 10 Dec 1955 The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television.
• 14 Dec 1955 Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman / wife as vicar
• 15 Dec 1955 Jens Olsen's World Clock is started by Danish King Frederick IX and Jens Olsen's youngest grandchild Birgit.
• 19 Dec 1955 Carl Perkins records Blue Suede Shoes
• 20 Dec 1955 Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
• 22 Dec 1955 American cytogeneticist Joe Hin Tjio discovers the correct number of human chromosomes, forty-six.
• 24 Dec 1955 NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition.
• 25 Dec 1955 Cleveland Browns win NFL championship
• 26 Dec 1955 RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV
• 28 Dec 1955 44th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (5-0).
• 31 Dec 1955 Vamp closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 60 performances

Famous Birthday

• Jane Kaczmarek

  TV Actress.

• Cyrielle Claire
• Hervé Guibert

  French gay writer and photographer.

• Christa Worthington

  American writer, a fashion journalist whose body was found on 1/06/2002, dead in her home dressed in her nightgown with her two-year-old...

• Paul Simonon

  English singer-songwriter and bass player (The Clash and Havana 3am).

• Xander Berkeley

  American actor.

• Olivier Rouyer
• Frédéric Pajak
• Francis Valéry
• Veronica Forqué
• John Paulson
• Priscilla Barnes

  TV Actress.

• Manuela Moura Guedes
• Steven Culp

  American actor.

• Pierre Bokma

  Dutch actor (Avonden, Leedvermaak).

• Ana Gabriel

  Pop Singer.

• Ralph Benmergui

  Moroccan-born Canadian radio and television personality, journalist, comedian and political advisor.

• Nicolas Kurtovitch
• Gabriel Aghion
• Xibao Liu
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Famous Deaths

• Paul Harvey

  Actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73.

• Dorothy Bernard

  Actress (Margaret-Life With Father), dies at 65.

• Nana Bryant

  Actress (Mrs Nestor-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 67.

• Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter

  English naval officer (Born 1881).

• Jacques Handschin

  Swiss musicologist, dies at age 69.

• Johan C Altorf

  sculptor (October 3 Monument), dies at age 79.

• Cow Cow Davenport

  American pianist (Born 1894).

• Franz Adolf Syberg

  Composer, dies at 51.

• Glenn Luther Martin

  American aviation executive (Born 1886).

• Hermann Weyl

  German mathematician and theoretical physicist.

• Honus Wagner

  American baseball player (Born 1874).

• Rex Ingamells

  Australian author and poet (d. 1955).

• Egas Moniz

  Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel laureate (Born 1874).

• Jozsef Galamb

  Hungarian mechanical engineer (Born 1881).

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Top #4 songs in the USA

1. Roger Williams - Autumn Leaves
2. Al Hibbler - He
3. Bing Crosby - White Christmas
4. Art Mooney & His Orchestra - (I'm Getting) Nuttin' For Christmas

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock Around The Clock
2. Rosemary Clooney & The Mellomen - Mambo Italiano
3. Johnnie Ray - Just Walkin' In The Rain
4. Dickie Valentine - Christmas Alphabet
5. Dickie Valentine With The Stargazers - The Finger Of Suspicion