April 1955

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The following events occurred in April 1955:

April 1, 1955 (Friday)[]

  • EOKA A starts an independence campaign against British rule in the Crown colony of Cyprus.
  • Post-World War II bans on powered flight in West Germany are lifted and Lufthansa begins operations, providing service linking Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt-am-Main, Cologne, and Munich. The airline acquired the name and logo of the defunct airline Deutsche Luft Hansa in August 1954 and considers it part of its own history but has no legal connection with the earlier airline.

April 2, 1955 (Saturday)[]

  • A general election is held in Singapore, the Labour Front gains the most seats and a working majority; its chairman, David Marshall, becomes Singapore's first Chief Minister.[1]
  • Duncan Edwards, the 18-year-old Manchester United left-half, becomes the youngest full England international in a 7-2 win over Scotland at Wembley. Dudley-born Edwards is already being tipped by many observers to become the next England captain upon the eventual retirement of Billy Wright.[2]

April 3, 1955 (Sunday)[]

  • A passenger train plunges into a canyon in Guadalajara, Mexico; 300 people are killed.
  • Maryan Wisniewski makes his international debut, becoming the youngest footballer to play for France, at the age of 18 years and 2 months

April 4, 1955 (Monday)[]

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April 6, 1955 (Wednesday)[]

April 7, 1955 (Thursday)[]

  • Radio Tokyo TV (now Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS)) begins broadcasting in Japan.
  • Born: Werner Stocker, German actor, in Flintsbach am Inn (died 1993)
  • Died: Theda Bara, 69, US film actress (stomach cancer)[4]

April 8, 1955 (Friday)[]

April 9, 1955 (Saturday)[]

A World War II Lincoln bomber[6] crashes into Mount Superbus, Australia, in the early hours the morning, during a medical evacuation of a sick baby from Townsville, Queensland, to Eagle Farm airfield in Brisbane. The crew of four RAAF personnel and the two passengers are all killed.

April 10, 1955 (Sunday)[]

April 11, 1955 (Monday)[]

April 12, 1955 (Tuesday)[]

April 13, 1955 (Wednesday)[]

April 14, 1955 (Thursday)[]

  • The Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup for the 7th time in franchise history, but will not win again until 1997.

April 15, 1955 (Friday)[]

  • The Middle East Treaty Organization (MENTO) is formed by Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, with the objective of containing the Soviet Union (USSR) by having a line of strong states along the USSR's southwestern frontier.[9]
  • Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's Inc. restaurant, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
  • Born: Dodi Fayed, Egyptian businessman, in Alexandria, the son of Mohamed Al-Fayed (died 1997)

April 16, 1955 (Saturday)[]

  • A Burma-Japanese peace treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954, comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries that has not existed for a long time.
  • Sir Laurence Olivier's film version of Shakespeare's Richard III, is released in the UK.

April 17, 1955 (Sunday)[]

  • Imre Nagy, the communist Premier of Hungary, loses his position as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, apparently for being too moderate.

April 18, 1955 (Monday)[]

  • The Bandung Conference opens in Indonesia. The twenty-nine participating countries represent nearly one-quarter of the Earth's land surface and a total population of 1.5 billion people.[10]
  • Died: Albert Einstein, 76, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • The first DON'T WALK Pedestrian crossing signs are installed in New York City.

April 19, 1955 (Tuesday)[]

April 20, 1955 (Wednesday)[]

  • After twelve hours of debate in the Victorian Legislative Assembly on Henry Bolte's motion of no-confidence against the Labor government of John Cain in the Legislative Assembly, eleven members who have been expelled from the Labor Party cross the floor to support Bolte's motion. With his government defeated, Cain obtains a dissolution of parliament later that day.[11][12]
  • George Walbridge Perkins, Jr. replaces John Chambers Hughes as United States Permanent Representative to NATO.[13]

April 21, 1955 (Thursday)[]

  • Born: Tuheitia Paki, Maori king, in Huntly, New Zealand

April 22, 1955 (Friday)[]

  • Died: Adnan al-Malki, 37, Syrian military leader, assassinated at Damascus Municipal Stadium by Younis Abdul Rahim[14]

April 23, 1955 (Saturday)[]

  • Born: Tony Miles, English chess grandmaster, in Birmingham (died 2001)

April 24, 1955 (Sunday)[]

April 25, 1955 (Monday)[]

April 26, 1955 (Tuesday)[]

April 27, 1955 (Wednesday)[]

April 28, 1955 (Thursday)[]

April 29, 1955 (Friday)[]

April 30, 1955 (Saturday)[]

References[]

  1. ^ Sr, Pugalenthi (1996) Elections in Singapore VJ Times International Pte Ltd, Singapore ISBN 981-221-025-3
  2. ^ "Duncan Edwards: A prodigious talent cut down in his prime". Mirror Football. Daily Mirror. Archived from the original on 2012-10-16. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
  3. ^ "Anthony Eden 1955". The Cabinet Papers 1915-1981. Kew: The National Archives. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
  4. ^ Ronald Genini (1996). Theda Bara: A Biography of the Silent Screen Vamp, with a Filmography. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0202-4.
  5. ^ Cooke, B.W.C., ed. (June 1958). "The Why and the Wherefore: The Railway Clearing House". The Railway Magazine. Westminster: Tothill Press. 104 (686): 440.
  6. ^ Finley, Peter. "Mercy Flight to Disaster - Lincoln A73-64" (PDF). www.adf-serials.com. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  7. ^ "Mars' Calendar". Planetary Society. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
  8. ^ Offit, Paul A. (2007). The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis. Yale University Press. p. 38. ISBN 0-300-12605-0.
  9. ^ Hadley, Guy. CENTO: The Forgotten Alliance ISIO Monographs, University of Sussex, UK (1971): 2.
  10. ^ Bandung Conference of 1955 and the resurgence of Asia and Africa Archived 2012-05-13 at the Wayback Machine, Daily News, Sri Lanka
  11. ^ "Victorian Govt. Defeated; Election On May 28". The Central Queensland Herald. Rockhampton, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 21 April 1955. p. 6. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  12. ^ Ainsley Symons (2012), 'Democratic Labor Party members in the Victorian Parliament of 1955-1958,' in Recorder (Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Melbourne Branch) No. 275, November, Pages 4-5.
  13. ^ NNBD US Ambassadors to NATO retrieved on April 5, 2007
  14. ^ Sami M. Moubayed, Damascus Between Democracy and Dictatorship. p 136. Accessed 13 November 2015
  15. ^ "60th Anniversary Open Day". withernseahigh.org.uk. Archived from the original on 31 July 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  16. ^ (in Spanish) Profile at Argentine Senate Website Archived 2011-12-28 at the Wayback Machine, 16 August 2009.
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