* Mark Mendoza ( born 1955 ), American bass player nicknamed " The Animal "

In 1955, the Congress of the People officially adopted the Freedom Charter, stating the core principles of the South African Congress Alliance, which consisted of the African National Congress and its allies the South African Communist Party ( SACP ), the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress of Democrats ( COD ) and the Coloured People's Congress.

* A. Walsh ( 1955 ), The application of atomic absorption spectra to chemical analysis, Spectrochim.

The gag was often at his own expense, as in the above 1951 sequence showing Capp's interaction with " fans " ( see excerpt ), or in his 1955 Disneyland parody, " Hal Yappland.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

In addition, they toured pre-independence Namibia ( then South West Africa ), in 1955, 1962, 1968, and 1974.

* Knollenberg, Bernhard, " General Amherst and Germ Warfare ," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 41 ( 1954 – 1955 ), 489 – 494.

His production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was the most successful and innovative star-driven independent production company in Hollywood of the 1950s, making movies such as Marty ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), and Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ).

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.

Bill Haley and his Comets performing " Rock Around the Clock " on TV in 1955

At the same time British audiences were beginning to encounter American rock and roll, initially through films including Blackboard Jungle ( 1955 ) and Rock Around the Clock ( 1955 ).

Both movies contained the Bill Haley & His Comets hit " Rock Around the Clock ", which first entered the British charts in early 1955 – four months before it reached the US pop charts – topped the British charts later that year and again in 1956, and helped identify rock and roll with teenage delinquency.

Around the same time he began to be active in Britain's Free Cinema movement, co-directing the non-fiction short Momma Don't Allow ( also 1955 ) with Karel Reisz.

For the 1955 record album by Haley, see Rock Around the Clock ( album ).

It was not until 1955, when " Rock Around the Clock " was used under the opening credits of the film Blackboard Jungle, that the song truly took off.

The producers were looking for a song to represent the type of music the youth of 1955 was listening to, and the elder Ford borrowed several records from his son's collection, one of which was Haley's " Rock Around the Clock " and this was the song chosen.

On July 9, 1955, " Rock Around the Clock " became the first rock and roll recording to hit the top of Billboard's Pop charts, a feat it repeated on charts around the world.

In the UK, Haley's " Rock Around the Clock " reached number 17 on the pop charts in January 1955, four months before it first entered the US pop charts.

The most notable of these compilations was the 1955 Decca Records album Rock Around the Clock ( Decca DL 8225 ) which contained most of the tracks Haley recorded as singles for the label in 1954 and 1955.

The ( belated ) success of " Rock Around the Clock " is attributed to its use in the soundtrack of the film Blackboard Jungle, which was released in March 1955.

* An April 1955 concert in Cleveland, Ohio including the earliest known live recordings of " Rock Around the Clock " ( Rock ' n ' Roll Show, Hydra Records, 1995 );

* "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock " – US R ' n ' B No. 3 then # 1 ( 8 weeks ), Billboard, US ; # 1 ( 7 weeks ), Cashbox, 06 / 1955 ; # 1, UK, 10 / 1955 ; UK recharts # 5 09 / 1956 ; # 24, 12 / 1956 ; No. 25 01 / 1957 ; No. 20 04 / 1968 ; No. 34 05 / 1968 ; No. 12 UK then No. 39 US, 04 / 1974

( 1955 ) before scoring a big success as Phileas Fogg in Michael Todd's production of Around the World in 80 Days.

Around 1955 Kelly was replaced as Chief Scout by George Darle from Drumcondra.

" Movie Magg " and " Turn Around " were released on the Phillips-owned Flip label ( 151 ) March 19, 1955, with " Turn Around " becoming a regional success.

Around 1955,

Around 1910 the Borden Institute became used as William W. Borden High School, or simply Borden High School, and served this purpose until 1955.

Around 1955 the railroad shut down, and much of what was left has been either torn down of has fallen down.

In 1969, Karpov became the first Soviet player since Spassky ( 1955 ) to win the World Junior Chess Championship, scoring an undefeated 10 / 11 in the finals at Stockholm.

Jackie Robinson was also renowned for the thrilling feat of stealing home, which he famously accomplished in Game 1 of the 1955 World Series.

Notably, Barcelonnette is the only subprefecture of France not be served by rail transport ; the Ubaye line which would have linked Chorges to Barcelonnette was never completed as a result of the First World War and the construction of the Serre-Ponçon Dam between 1955 and 1961.

There was no GP at Zandvoort in 1954 ( a sportscar-event replaced it ), but 1955 saw the first proper Formula One race counting for the World Championship.

In 1955, the World Health Organization commenced a program to eradicate malaria worldwide, relying largely on DDT.

Rearmament and the founding of the Bundeswehr in 1955 brought with it a wave of war films which tended to depict the ordinary German soldiers of World War II as brave and apolitical.

The country was admitted to the United Nations in 1955 and is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade / World Trade Organization ( GATT / WTO ), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), and the Council of Europe.

* 1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist and engineer, invented the World Wide Web

* 1955 – The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends.

Over ten seasons, he played in six World Series and contributed to the Dodgers ' 1955 World Championship.

The following autumn, Robinson won his only championship when the Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in the 1955 World Series.

* 1955 – Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends.

The World Bank has been involved in mining since 1955, mainly through grants from its International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, with the Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency offering political risk insurance.

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

* 1955 – Moulana Ghousavi Shah, Author, ( Secretary General: The Conference of World Religions )

* 1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.

The day after their doubleheader loss, the Pirates traveled to New York's Polo Grounds, where Roberto, having just achieved some measure of vindication against the team that let him get away, now had a chance to compete against his two great baseball heroes, both his boyhood idol Monte Irvin and his recently acquired friend and mentor ( not to mention teammate, with the 1954-55 Caribbean Champion Santurce Crabbers ), Willie Mays, both of whom now patrolled the outfield of the defending World Champion New York Giants, with whom the Pirates now began a four-game series, hoping to pick up their first win of 1955.

Consumption of spaghetti in Italy doubled from before World War II to by 1955.

On 14 May 1955, the USSR established the Warsaw Pact in response to the integration of the Federal Republic of Germany into NATO in October 1954 – only nine years after the defeat of Nazi Germany ( 1933 – 45 ) that ended with the Soviet and Allied invasion of Germany in 1944 / 45 during World War II in Europe.

** The Brooklyn Dodgers finally win the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees 2 – 0 in Game 7 of the 1955 baseball playoff.

When describing the IFC in 1955, World Bank President Eugene R. Black said that the IFC would only invest in private firms, rather than make loans to governments, and it would not manage the projects in which it invests.

After it had been decided that luge would replace the sport of skeleton at the Olympic Games, the first World Championships in the sport were held in 1955 in Oslo ( Norway ).

Another definition for the Baby Boom is the decade after the Second World War, that is 1946 to 1955.