July 1955 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1955 69th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Kurt Nielsen (63 75 61)
• 02 Jul 1955 7th Heaven closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 44 performances
• 05 Jul 1955 English harbor strike ends
• 07 Jul 1955 1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson
• 09 Jul 1955 Rock Around Clock hits #1 on Top 100 chart
• 11 Jul 1955 Congress authorizes all US currency to say In God We Trust
• 12 Jul 1955 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
• 15 Jul 1955 WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 16 Jul 1955 Golden Horseshoe Revue 1st of 50,000+ performances, Disneyland
• 17 Jul 1955 Arco, Idaho becomes first US city lit by nuclear power.
• 18 Jul 1955 280 mm rain in Martinstown, Dorset
• 19 Jul 1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 and becomes a floating museum
• 21 Jul 1955 First submarine powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched - USS Seawolf.
• 22 Jul 1955 1st VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon
• 23 Jul 1955 New York Yankees Bob Cerv and E Howard are 1st to hit consecutive pinch HRs
• 24 Jul 1955 Ali Sastroamidjojo of Government resigns in Indonesia
• 26 Jul 1955 37th PGA Championship: Doug Ford at Meadowbrook Country Club - Detroit
• 27 Jul 1955 Bulgaria shoots down a plane heading for Israel (58 die)
• 28 Jul 1955 The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
• 29 Jul 1955 Smokey Burgess hits three home runs to help Pittsburgh Pirates beat Cincinnati Reds 16-5.
• 30 Jul 1955 Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France
• 31 Jul 1955 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Battle Creek Golf Open

Famous Birthday

• Iman (model)
• Karen Cheryl

  French singer, actress, radio and television presenter.

• Willem Dafoe

  American actor whose portrayal of the betrayed sergeant in "Platoon," 1986, earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

• Jean-Hugues Anglade

  French actor who starred with Béatrice Dalle in Jean-Jacques Beineix's "Betty Blue" in 1985.

• Christian Estrosi

  French sportsman and politician.

• Titouan Lamazou

  French skipper, draughtsman and writer.

• Jimmy Smits

  American actor and producer.

• Jackie Quartz
• Jean-Luc Ettori

  French footballer, a goalkeeper who spent his entire career with AS Monaco, and had held the record for the most appearances by any player...

• Thierry Jean-Pierre

  French treasury inspector, investigating judge, politician and lawyer, who died on 26 July 2005.

• Penelope Fillon
• Miguel Esteves Cardoso
• Bruce Altman
• Monty Don

  German-English television host.

• Béla Tarr

  Hungarian director producer and screenwriter.

• Ko Hashiguchi

  American pro astrologer, illustrator, cartoon-character and special-effects animation artist who works at a studio in the Los Angeles area.

• Walter Veltroni

  Italian publicist, politician, a member of the Communist Party and editor of the Communist Party Journal; a member of Parliament from 1987.

• Dalton McGuinty

  Canadian politician, named leader of Ontario Provincial Liberal Party 12/01/1996.

• Chris White (saxophonist)
• Barry Orr
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Famous Deaths

• Joseph Foley

  Actor (Mr Peepers), dies at 45.

• Betsy van Es

  Flemish actress (Un soir de joie), dies at 55.

• Harry Haden

  Actor (Harry-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 73.

• Ilmari Hannikainen

  Composer, dies at 62.

• Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky

  Composer, dies at 55.

• Paolo Gallico

  Composer, dies at 87.

• Franco Casavola

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Henry W Methorst

  Dutch Director (Central Bureau of Statistic).

• Beulah Ecton Woodard

  US sculptor, dies at 59.

• Jean de Merode [Marie-Louise Courtenay]

  Belgian princess, dies at 81.

• Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink

  Dutch Social Democratic (SDAP / AJC / PvdA), dies at 64.

• Ruth Ellis

  Welsh homicide.

• Cordell Hull

  American politician from the U.S.

• Calouste Gulbenkian

  Turkish-Armenian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1955).

• Edward Lawson

  Scottish soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (Born 1873).

• Don Beauman

  English race car driver (d. 1955).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Les Paul and Mary Ford - Hummingbird
2. Fats Domino - Ain't It A Shame
3. Bill Haley and His Comets - (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock
4. Frank Sinatra - Learnin' The Blues
5. Les Baxter & His Orchestra - Unchained Melody

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Jimmy Young - Unchained Melody
2. Slim Whitman - Rose Marie
3. Alma Cogan - Dreamboat
4. Frankie Laine With The Mellomen - Cool Water
5. Al Hibbler - Unchained Melody