WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1955
Find out what all happened January to November 1955

The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight. (16. September 1955)

Chinese Civil War: Battle of Yijiangshan is fought. (18. January 1955)

National Review publishes its first issue. (19. November 1955)

The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective. (12. April 1955)

Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam. (26. October 1955)

First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day. (25. May 1955)

In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals. (20. August 1955)

Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera. (7. January 1955)

After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio. (5. November 1955)

Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends. (18. May 1955)

The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded. (25. September 1955)

Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. (2. May 1955)

Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered. (13. June 1955)

The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC. (3. October 1955)

The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends. (27. July 1955)

Cold War: West Germany joins NATO. (9. May 1955)

Soviet Union regional elections, 1955. (27. February 1955)

The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France. (28. July 1955)

A Soviet Navy Zulu class submarine becomes the first submarine to launch a ballistic missile. (16. September 1955)

The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour. (23. April 1955)

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