August 1955
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The following events occurred in August 1955:
August 1, 1955 (Monday)
- Norway's Ministry of Pay and Prices was established, headed by Gunnar Bråthen.
- The Lockheed Article 001, a prototype of the Groom Lake in Nevada, United States.[1]
August 2, 1955 (Tuesday)
- Died: Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, 86, German military leader and last heir apparent to the Bavarian throne[2]
August 3, 1955 (Wednesday)
- The English-language première of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot, directed by Peter Hall, took place at the Arts Theatre, London.[3]
August 4, 1955 (Thursday)
- The Vörös Lobogó, with ÚDA Prahaas runners-up after the second leg of the final.
- While her act was being filmed for NBC variety series The Jimmy Durante Show, Carmen Miranda complained of feeling ill and out of breath but finished her performance.[4][5]
August 5, 1955 (Friday)
- Died: Carmen Miranda, 46, Portuguese Brazilian singer and actress (pre-eclampsia)[6]
August 6, 1955 (Saturday)
- The French Southern and Antarctic Territories were created, as an overseas territory of France.
August 7, 1955 (Sunday)
- The French .
- Born: Wayne Knight, American actor, in New York City
August 8, 1955 (Monday)
- Composer Luigi Nono married Nuria, the daughter of another composer, Arnold Schoenberg, in Venice.[7]
- At B-29 mother ship prior to a planned flight by test pilot Joseph A. Walker. Walker climbed out of the X-1A back into the B-29, but pilot Stan Butchart, unable to risk landing the B-29 with the X-1A still attached to its underside, was forced to drop the rocket plane, which exploded in the desert.[8]
- Died: Grace Hartman, 48, American actress
August 9, 1955 (Tuesday)
- The Canadian National Railway opened its part of Walkley Yard in Ottawa, Canada.
- Born: Maud Olofsson, Swedish politician, in Arnäsvall
August 10, 1955 (Wednesday)
- The Division of Stirling was created in a Western Australia electoral redistribution.[9]
August 11, 1955 (Thursday)
- As a formation of nine
- Burhanuddin Harahap became Prime Minister of Indonesia.
August 12, 1955 (Friday)
- Hurricane Connie struck North Carolina as a Category 2 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
- Died:
- Thomas Mann, 80, German novelist, Nobel Prize laureate[12][13]
- James B. Sumner, 67, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate[14]
August 13, 1955 (Saturday)
- Died: Florence Easton, 72, English-born operatic soprano
August 14, 1955 (Sunday)
- The US schooner Levin J. Marvel capsized and sank in Chesapeake Bay with the loss of 14 of the 16 people on board. It was lost during high waves in Hurricane Connie.[15][16]
August 15, 1955 (Monday)
- Rear Admiral 1962 Ceylonese coup d'état attempt.
August 16, 1955 (Tuesday)
- Edward Makula set a new world record glider speed of 67.304 kilometres per hour (41.821 mph) over a triangular course of 200 kilometres (120 mi), the first of seven world records Makula would hold in the course of his career.[19]
August 17, 1955 (Wednesday)
- Died: Fernand Léger, 74, French painter and sculptor
August 18, 1955 (Thursday)
- The First Sudanese Civil War began.
- First meeting of the Organization of Central American States (Organización de Estados Centroamericanos, ODECA), in Antigua Guatemala.
August 19, 1955 (Friday)
- Hurricane Diane hit the northeastern United States, killing over 200 people and causing over $1.0 billion in damage.
August 20, 1955 (Saturday)
- Dorothy Hodgkin and her colleagues published the final structure of vitamin B12.[20]
- In
- Flying a U.S. Air Force North American F-100C Super Sabre, Horace A. Haines set a world speed record of 822.135 mph (1,323.889 km/h).[23]
August 21, 1955 (Sunday)
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August 22, 1955 (Monday)
- Eleven schoolchildren were killed when their school bus was hit by a freight train in crossing signal; a further 39 were injured.[24]
August 23, 1955 (Tuesday)
- The Westland Widgeon helicopter made its maiden flight.
- Died: Rudolf Minger, 73, Swiss politician
August 24, 1955 (Wednesday)
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August 25, 1955 (Thursday)
- In China, the Sufan movement issued its "Directive on the thorough purge and cleansing of hidden counter-revolutionaries".[25]
- While on a voyage from Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States, to Copenhagen, Denmark, the British cargo ship Argobeam was caught in a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. It caught fire and was abandoned by the crew. A few days later it was taken in to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, and would eventually be repaired and returned to service as Parkgate.[26]
August 26, 1955 (Friday)
- Satyajit Ray's film Pather Panchali was released in Calcutta, India, receiving a poor initial response but quickly attracting audiences to become a classic of Indian cinema.[27]
August 27, 1955 (Saturday)
- The first edition of the
- Born: Sergey Khlebnikov, Soviet speed skater (d. 1999)
August 28, 1955 (Sunday)
- The Challenge Round of the 1955 Davis Cup tennis competition was won by Australia at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, New York, USA.[29]
- A US-registered tugboat, the Harold J, sank in the Bering Sea near Lopp Lagoon on the Alaskan coast in a storm, with the loss of three crew members.[30]
- Died: Emmett Till, 14, African-American teenager, was beaten and shot to death in Mississippi for allegedly speaking to a white woman.[31]
August 29, 1955 (Monday)
- A British Royal Air Force English Electric Canberra set a new world altitude record of 65,876 ft (20,079 m).[32]
- The 1955 CCCF Championship soccer competition ended in victory for Costa Rica.[33]
August 30, 1955 (Tuesday)
- U.S. Patrolmen William Hudec and Warren Stainbrook of the Cleveland Division of Police were killed when a train struck the police ambulance they were driving.[34][35] Hudec was the father of actress Majel Leigh Hudec, who would later be better known as Majel Barrett and play multiple roles in the Star Trek franchise.
August 31, 1955 (Wednesday)
- The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad began experiments with air conditioning on its subway cars, a technology that the New York City Subway system had declared impractical before then.[36] This experiment resulted in the first successful production application of air conditioning in a rapid transit car, 50 cars (20 owned by H&M, 30 by H&M parent PRR) built by St. Louis Car Companyin 1958.
- BOMARC missile.[37]
- Emmett Till's decomposed corpse was pulled from Mississippi's Tallahatchie River. Moses Wright identified the body from a ring with the initials L.T. [38]
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