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The following events occurred in December 1955:

December 1, 1955 (Thursday)

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December 2, 1955 (Friday)

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  • Edgar Faure dissolves France's National Assembly under Article 51 of the country's Constitution.
  • Barnes rail crash: After a collision at Barnes, London, UK, caused by a signal error, fire breaks out. Thirteen people are killed and 35 injured.

December 3, 1955 (Saturday)

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  • Resistance fighter Osvald Harjo returns to Norway after 13 years in Soviet prison camps.

December 4, 1955 (Sunday)

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December 5, 1955 (Monday)

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December 6, 1955 (Tuesday)

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December 7, 1955 (Wednesday)

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December 8, 1955 (Thursday)

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December 9, 1955 (Friday)

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December 10, 1955 (Saturday)

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December 11, 1955 (Sunday)

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  • Operation Olive Leaves, an Israeli reprisal operation against Syria, ends with the destruction of Syrian emplacements, and fifty-four Syrians killed in action, with another thirty taken prisoner. Six IDF fatalities are reported.[6]
  • Italy's Radical Party is founded by a splinter group of the Italian Liberal Party.

December 12, 1955 (Monday)

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December 13, 1955 (Tuesday)

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December 14, 1955 (Wednesday)

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December 15, 1955 (Thursday)

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December 16, 1955 (Friday)

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December 17, 1955 (Saturday)

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December 18, 1955 (Sunday)

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December 19, 1955 (Monday)

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  • Under the leadership of Ismail al-Azhari, Sudan adopts a declaration of independence from Egypt, to take effect on 1 January 1956 with the agreement of Egypt and the UK.
  • The Representative of Portugal to the United Nations makes a Declaration of Acceptance, on behalf of the Government of Portugal, of the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice in a dispute with India, resulting in further legal controversy.[17][clarification needed]
  • In Jordan, King Hussein declares the state of siege, after the riots and the attacks to the foreign embassies because the announced adherence of the country to the Baghdad Pact. The Hazza' al-Majali government, in charge for less than a week, resigns.[18]
  • Dame Edna Everage makes her first stage appearance, in Melbourne, Australia.

December 20, 1955 (Tuesday)

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December 21, 1955 (Wednesday)

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  • Ibrahim Hashem becomes acting Prime Minister of Jordan, thus beginning his third term in the post.
  • Khrushchev and Bulganin come back in Moscow, warmly welcomed by the crowd, after an official trip in Burma, India and Afghanistan lasting over a month.[21]
  • In France, the Prime Minister Edgar Faure convenes an extraordinary cabinet meeting because the troubles in Algeria, where the guerrilla has caused an hundred victims only in the last 24 hours.[22] 

December 22, 1955 (Thursday)

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December 23, 1955 (Friday)

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  • The countess Pia Bellentani is released from the Pozzuoli penal psychiatric hospital. The woman, sentenced to ten years in 1952 for the killing of her lover Carlo Sacchi, had been pardoned by the Italian president Gronchi.[24]
  • In Chateau-Chinon, a Francois Mitterrand’s election rally is interrupted by the raid of 500 UDCA militants, headed by Pierre Poujade himself. In the following harsh debate between the two politicians, however, the young socialist clearly outclasses his adversary.[25]
  • Otto John, former head of the German secret service (BfV) is arrested in Wiesbaden. After a clamorous defection to East the last year, he had returned in West Germany the 12th of December.[26]
  • In Paris, Marina Vlady marries Robert Hossein.[27]
  • Born:

December 24, 1955 (Saturday)

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December 25, 1955 (Sunday)

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  • After being on radio since 1932, the Royal Christmas Message is broadcast on British television for the first time, in sound only, at 3.00pm.
  • Encyclical Musicae sacrae by Pope Pius XII on sacred music.[33]

December 26, 1955 (Monday)

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December 27, 1955 (Tuesday)

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  • Japanese cargo ship SS Tanda Maru is driven ashore in a typhoon on Honshu and breaks in two. Fourteen of her 24 crew are rescued by a US helicopter.[34]
  • Dead: Ely Culbertson, 64, American bridge player.

December 28, 1955 (Wednesday)

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December 29, 1955 (Thursday)

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December 30, 1955 (Friday)

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December 31, 1955 (Saturday)

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  • General Motors becomes the first American corporation to make a profit of over one billion dollars in one year.
  • Harrison Dillard, a two-time Olympic Champion was named the James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy winner as the United States' Amateur Athlete of 1955.
  • Born: Erminia Giuliano, in Naples, female boss of the Giuliano clan.

References

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  1. ^ Burgess, Colin (2011). Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America's First Astronauts. Chichester, UK: Springer Science+Business Media. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-4419-8404-3.
  2. ^ "Attlee steps down as Labour leader". BBC News. 7 December 1955. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-11.
  3. ^ Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (8 December 1955), Resolution (55) 32 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, CVCE, retrieved 25 June 2014
  4. ^ Lucas, John (2008). Thomas Beecham: An Obsession with Music. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-402-1. p. 330.
  5. ^ "Telegrams in Brief". The Times. No. 53400. London. 10 December 1955. col G, p. 5.
  6. ^ Spencer Tucker, The encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli conflict, ABC-CLIO, (2008) p. 232
  7. ^ GB 854211 
  8. ^ Aviation Hawaii: 1950-1959 Chronology of Aviation in Hawaii
  9. ^ "Shri. Manohar Parrikar | Goa MLA | Goa Legislative Assembly". Archived from the original on 2018-12-26. Retrieved 2015-10-04.
  10. ^ "New British Ship Sunk". The Times. No. 53404. London. 15 December 1955. col C, p. 10.
  11. ^ "Gaitskell elected Labour leader". BBC News. 14 December 1955. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-11.
  12. ^ Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
  13. ^ "1955: Queen opens London Airport terminal". BBC News. 16 December 1955. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-11.
  14. ^ Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1. North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Edited by Dieter Nohlen. 2005.
  15. ^ "Le elezioni nella Saar vinte dai tre partiti filotedeschi". Stampa Sera. 19 December 1955.
  16. ^ "Condannato a morte l'ex ministro degli esteri". Stampa Sera. 19 December 1955.
  17. ^ Ademola Abass, Complete International Law: Text, Cases, and Materials. OUP, 2014 (2nd ed). p 548
  18. ^ "La Giordania in stato d'assedio dopo gravi disordini a Gerusalemme". La Stampa. 20 December 1955.
  19. ^ "Sono continuati a Gerusalemme gli attacchi ai consolati stranieri". La Stampa. December 21, 1955.
  20. ^ "Eden sostituisce i ministri delle finanze, degli esteri e del lavoro". La Stampa. December 21, 1955.
  21. ^ "Accoglienze di eccezione a Mosca per il ritorno di Kruscev e Bulganin". La Stampa. December 21, 1955.
  22. ^ "Grave allarme a Parigi per il terrorismo in Algeria". La Stampa. December 22, 1955.
  23. ^ "È stata domata nel Paraguay una rivolta delle forze armate". La Stampa. December 23, 1955.
  24. ^ "Il delitto dell'ermellino" (PDF).
  25. ^ "Tempestoso comizio di poujadisti in Francia". La Stampa. December 22, 1955.
  26. ^ "Otto John è stato arrestato ma non ci sarà processo pubblico". La Stampa. December 24, 1955.
  27. ^ "Matrimonio quasi segreto di Marina Vlady a Parigi". La Stampa. December 24, 1955.
  28. ^ ""Kimsin sen" Şivan Perwer?".
  29. ^ "The Constitution (Amendment) Acts". Constitution.org. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
  30. ^ "Radiomessaggio a tutto il mondo in occasione del Natale (24 dicembre 1955) | PIO XII". www.vatican.va. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
  31. ^ "Una spaventosa alluvione in tre Stati del Nord America". La Stampa. December 25, 1955.
  32. ^ "Sei psichiatri esaminano il dinamitardo del Sacro Cuore". Stampa Sera. December 27, 1955.
  33. ^ "Musicae Sacrae (December 25, 1955) | PIUS XII". www.vatican.va. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  34. ^ "Japanese Typhoon Toll". The Times. No. 53414. London. 29 December 1955. col B, p. 5.
  35. ^ "Tito ospite di Nasser in Egitto". La Stampa. December 29, 1955.
  36. ^ History portal (in Turkish) Archived 2012-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
  37. ^ Alfredo Todisco (December 30, 1955). "Bulganin parla di coesistenza e Kruscev attacca gli occidentali". La Stampa.
  38. ^ "Algérie, août 1955 : la mort filmée en direct. De Marie Chominot". Benjamin Stora (in French). Retrieved 2020-01-22.
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