November 1955 in History

Events in History

Nov 1 Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont, Colorado

Event of Interest

Nov 2 David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government

1st Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion

Event of Interest

Nov 3 Argentine ex-president Juan Perón arrives in Nicaragua

General and President of Argentina Juan Perón

Nov 3 Australia takes control of Cocos Islands
Nov 3 Bernardus J Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht
Nov 3 First virus crystallized (announced)

Polio

Nov 3 Scientists Carlton E. Schwerdt and Fred L. Schaffer announce they have crystallized the pure polio virus, meaning they can better determine the virus' chemical and biological properties

Nov 5 Date returned to in "Back to the Future" by Marty McFly
Nov 6 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Nov 7 Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas
Nov 9 Michael Gazzo's "Hatful of Rain" premieres in NYC
Nov 9 NZ all out for 70 v Pakistan at Dacca
Nov 9 UN disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics
Nov 12 1st West German officers sworn in
Nov 13 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba
Nov 13 Argentine general Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president
Nov 15 Poland & Yugoslavia sign trade agreement
Nov 16 Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Yussuph V returns to Morocco
Nov 18 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
Nov 19 National Review publishes its first issue
Nov 21 Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Juan Peron
Nov 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Nov 23 Britain transfers the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean to Australia
Nov 24 1st test flight of Fokker's F-27 Friendship

Event of Interest

Nov 25 Clement Attlee resigns as leader of the UK Labour Party

Nov 25 Race segregation forbidden on trains & buses between US states
Nov 26 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus
Nov 29 Turkish government of Menderes resigns
Nov 30 Argentine government disbands Peronistic party
Nov 30 Thriller novel "The Talented Mr Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith is published in the US

Birthdays in History

Nov 4 David Julius, American physiologist (2021 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for receptors for temperature and touch), born in Brooklyn, New York
Nov 4 Matti Vanhanen, 40th Prime Minister of Finland (2003-10), born in Jyväskylä, Finland
Nov 5 Karan Thapar, Indian journalist, political analyst and commentator, born in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Nov 6 Paul Romer, American economist (Nobel Prize 2018, endogenous growth theory), born in Denver, Colorado
Nov 9 Bob Nault, French Canadian politician (Member of the Canadian Parliament for Kenora—Rainy River), born in Ste. Anne, Manitoba
Nov 10 James Chapman, American novelist (Stet)
Nov 11 Jigme Singye Wangchuk, king of Bhutan (1972-2006), born in Thimphu, Bhutan
Nov 15 Henry Corra, American documentarian
Nov 16 Pierre Larouche, Canadian National Hockey League player
Nov 20 Timothy Mace, British cosmonaut, (d. 2014)
Nov 23 Mary Landrieu, American politician (US Senator of Louisiana, 1997-2005), born in Arlington, Virgina
Nov 23 Steven Brust [Karl Zoltan], American sci-fi author (Yendi, Jhereg), born in St. Paul, Minnesota
Nov 24 Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Swedish politician
Nov 24 Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer
Nov 26 Tracy Hickman, American sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
Nov 28 Adem Jashari, Albanian freedom fighter
Nov 30 Richard Burr, American politician (Senator-R-North Carolina 2005-, Rep-R-North Carolina 1995-2005), born in Charlottesville, North Carolina

Weddings in History

William Shockley

Nov 23 Physicist William Shockley (45) weds psychiatric nurse Emmy Lanning

Deaths in History

Nov 1 Dale Carnegie, American writer and public speaker (How to Win Friends & Influence People), dies at 66
Nov 1 W H van Eemlandt [Haasse], author (Treasure Hunter of Amstel), dies
Nov 5 Charley Toorop, Dutch painter (3 Generations), dies at 64
Nov 5 Maurice Utrillo, French painter (Port St Martin, Montmartre), dies at 71
Nov 6 Charley Toorop [Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop], Dutch painter, dies at 64
Nov 6 Cornelis GN de Vooys, translator, dies at 82
Nov 11 John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1913-18), dies at 87
Nov 12 Tin Ujević, Croatian poet (Žedan kamen na studencu), dies at 64
Nov 14 Robert E Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), dies at 59
Nov 15 Lloyd Bacon, director (Fuller Brush Girl, 42nd Street), dies at 65
Nov 16 Tomasz Arciszewski, 31st Prime Minister of Poland, 3rd Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile in London (1944-47), dies at 88
Nov 27 William Nigh, American director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr Wong), dies at 74