Pan Am Flight 845/26 Ditches Off Oregon, Killing Four, March 26, 1955
Date: March 26, 1955
Date: March 26, 1955
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) More events…
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…
The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang. Date: April 11, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 11 📅 Events on this day in 1955 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1955First Ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga…
Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera. Date: January 7, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 7 📅 Events on this day in 1955 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1955Pan Am Flight…
A Martin 2-0-2 and Douglas DC-3 collide over Boone County, Kentucky, killing 15 people. Date: January 12, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 12 📅 Events on this day in 1955 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1955McDonald’s Founded by Ray Kroc in Des Plaines, Illinois – April…
An order to protect the endangered Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) is legalized. Date: March 4, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 4 📅 Events on this day in 1955 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1955First Ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga by Joe Brown and George Band,…