The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown. Date: June 26, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 26 📅 Events on this day in 1955 📅 On This Day (Today)
In a futile effort to topple Argentine President Juan Perón, rogue aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed crowd demonstrating in favor of Perón in Buenos Aires, killing 364 and injuring at least 800. At the same time on the ground, some soldiers attempt to stage a coup but are…
Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. Date: June 14, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 14 📅 Events on this day in 1955 📅 On This Day (Today)
Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least one hundred are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports. Date: June 11, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 11 📅 Events on this day in 1955 📅 On…
Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films. Date: June 7, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 7 📅 Events on this day in 1955 📅 On This Day (Today)
The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between the two countries, discontinued since 1948. Date: June 2, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 2 📅 Events on this day in 1955 📅 On This Day (Today)
The U.S. Supreme Court expands on its Brown v. Board of Education decision by ordering district courts and school districts to enforce educational desegregation "at all deliberate speed." Date: May 31, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 31 📅 Events on this day in 1955 📅 On This Day (Today)
First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: On the British Kangchenjunga expedition led by Charles Evans, Joe Brown and George Band reach the summit of the third-highest mountain in the world (8,586 meters); Norman Hardie and Tony Streather join them the following day. Date: May 25, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May…
In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas as part of a larger outbreak across the Great Plains, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S. Date: May 25, 1955 Read more on…
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. Date: May 18, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 18 📅 Events on this day in…