June 1955 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1955 Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia
• 02 Jun 1955 The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
• 03 Jun 1955 KLFY TV channel 10 in Lafayette, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 04 Jun 1955 Mickey Rooney Show, TV comedy last airs on NBC
• 05 Jun 1955 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
• 06 Jun 1955 Bill Haley and The Comets' song "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1.
• 07 Jun 1955 $64,000 Question premieres on CBS TV
• 08 Jun 1955 Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for Sandy Koufax
• 10 Jun 1955 KWEX TV channel 41 in San Antonio, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
• 11 Jun 1955 1st magnesium jet airplane flies
• 12 Jun 1955 Mr Peepers (TV Comedy) starring Wally Cox airs for last time on NBC
• 13 Jun 1955 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans, France.
• 14 Jun 1955 Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 15 Jun 1955 Australia score 8-758 vs. West Indies at Kingston, their best ever
• 16 Jun 1955 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
• 18 Jun 1955 3 for Tonight closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 85 performances
• 19 Jun 1955 55th US Golf Open: Jack Fleck shoots a 287 at Olympic Country Club - San Francisco
• 20 Jun 1955 Almost Crazy opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 16 performances
• 22 Jun 1955 Antonio Segni forms government in Italy
• 24 Jun 1955 Harmon Killebrew hits his first home run (off Billy Hoeff).
• 25 Jun 1955 Can Can closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 892 performances
• 26 Jun 1955 Actor Geoffrey Holder marries Carmen de Lavallade
• 27 Jun 1955 Julius LaRosa Show, debuts on CBS-TV
• 29 Jun 1955 Argentine state of siege ends
• 30 Jun 1955 Johnny Carson Show, debuts on CBS-TV

Famous Birthday

• Isabelle Adjani

  French actress and international film star; first accepted by Comedie-Francaise at 15 due to her extraordinary talent.

• Michel Platini

  French soccer player, trainer and manager.

• Sandra Bernhard

  American comedienne, tall, skinny, aggressive, ultra-hip, manic, bearing a mouth and nosed that have been compared respectively to Jagger...

• Dana Carvey

  American actor and stand-up comedian, known for his work as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" and for playing the role of Garth Algar...

• Sandy Allen

  American tallest woman in the world (Born 1955).

• Chidvilasananda

  Indian Tara, a female guru known as Gurumayi, who became one of Muktananda's two successors at the time of his death along with Nityananda...

• Laurie Metcalf

  American TV and stage actress who first performed with the Steppenwolf Company of Chicago before landing the plum role of Roseanne's sister,...

• Suzie Gentile
• Glenn Danzig

  Punk Singer.

• Julie Arnold
• Julie Hagerty

  American actress, a slender brunette leading lady.

• Jean Tigana

  French footballer and manager.

• Mick Jones

  Guitarist.

• Tim Berners-Lee

  British computer engineer and inventor of the World Wide Web (www).

• William Forsythe

  American actor and producer.

• Valerio Merola

  Italian TV personality and game-show host.

• Régis Jauffret
• Munich (Germany)
• Paul O'Grady

  English comedian, television presenter, actor, writer and radio DJ.

• Eric Raoult
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Famous Deaths

• Barbara Graham

  American murderer (Born 1923).

• Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil

  French industrialist, murdered.

• Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Walter Rein

  Composer, dies at 61.

• Willy Burkhard

  Composer, dies at 55.

• Wyllis Cooper

  TV narrator (Volume One), dies at 56.

• Kathleen

  Duchess of Newcastle, British duchess (Born 1872).

• Max Meldrum

  Australian painter known as the founder of Australian Tonalism, a representational style of painting, as well as his portrait work, for...

• Max Pechstein

  German painter and printmaker, who was a leading member of the group of German Expressionist artists known as Die Brücke (“The Bridge”).

• Engelbert Zaschka

  German engineer and designer invented the Human-powered aircraft (d. 1955).

• Ozias Leduc

  Canadian painter and educator (d. 1955).

• F Melius Christiansen

  Composer, dies at 84.

• Walter Hampden

  American actor, considered the Dean of Shakespearean Actors.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Gisele MacKenzie - Hard To Get
2. The McGuire Sisters - Something's Gotta Give
3. Les Baxter & His Orchestra - Unchained Melody
4. Frank Sinatra - Learnin' The Blues
5. Bill Haley and His Comets - (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Eddie Calvert - Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White
2. Jimmy Young - Unchained Melody
3. Alma Cogan - Dreamboat
4. Al Hibbler - Unchained Melody
5. Perez 'Prez' Prado & His Orchestra - Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White