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* 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
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* 1955 – Rob Epstein, American filmmaker and journalist
* 1955 – Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian serial killer
* 1955 – Cathy Jones, Canadian comedian
* 1955 – Blind Mississippi Morris, American blues musician
* 1955 – Michael Rooker, American actor
* 1955 – The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
* 1955 – Nicolas Hulot, French journalist
* 1955 – Dimitra Liani, Greek air hostess, widow of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou
* 1955 – Laura Fygi, Dutch singer
* 1955 – Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
* 1955 – Diana Scarwid, American actress
* 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
* 1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet ( d. 1955 )
* 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1955 )
* 1955 – Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer ( d. 2008 )
* 1955 – Rusty Magee, American composer ( d. 2003 )
* 1955 – Peter Schmuck, American columnist
* 1955 – John E. Sweeney, American politician
* 1955 – Keith Ahlers, English race car driver
* 1955 – Hideo Fukuyama, Japanese race car driver
* 1955 – Paul Greengrass, English director
* 1865 – John Radecki, Australian artist ( d. 1955 )
* 1955 – Caleb Carr, American author and historian
* 1955 – Tim Dunigan, American actor
* 1955 – Tony Godden, English footballer
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Such sections showed bright yellow-green specific fluorescence in the cells of the pseudophloem tissue ( Lee and Black, 1955 ).
He had a substantially more important part as Hector, the small town hood in Bad Day at Black Rock ( 1955 ) with Spencer Tracy.
* Bad Day at Black Rock ( 1955 )
* 1955 – Keith Morris, American singer-songwriter ( Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Off!
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.
By the late 1960s, the social progress achieved by groups in the United States such as the Black Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 68 ), had legitimized the racial identity word black as mainstream American English usage to denote black-skinned Americans of African ancestry.
Instead, Tracy appeared as a one-armed protagonist who faces the hostility of a small town in Bad Day at Black Rock ( 1955 ), a film directed by John Sturges.
* Bad Day at Black Rock ( 1955 )
According to the 1955 book, Zeb's Black Baby, by Samuel Thomas Peace Sr .:
Classics such as Gunga Din, Springfield Rifle, The Violent Men ( 1955 film ), Bad Day at Black Rock ( 1955 ), the Budd Boetticher / Randolph Scott " Ranown " westerns, part of How the West Was Won, and Joe Kidd.
Keith Morris ( born September 18, 1955 ) is an American singer and songwriter known for his role as frontman of the hardcore punk bands Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and Off!
* Charles Black, from 1955 to 1962.
* ROBO ( born 1955 ), Roberto Valverde, drummer in punk bands Black Flag and The Misfits
Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 thriller film directed by John Sturges that combines elements of Westerns and film noir.
Famous performers at Llangollen have included Luciano Pavarotti ( who first competed in 1955 with his father and a choir from their home town Modena ), Red Army Ensemble, Julian Lloyd Webber and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
* 1955, Schluchsee ( Black Forest ), Germany
Vaughn made his television debut on the November 21, 1955 " Black Friday " episode of the American TV series Medic, the first of more than two hundred episodic roles by mid-2000.
He returned to Harvard in 1946, but eventually took his BA from Black Mountain College in 1955, teaching some courses there as well.
* Studio 57 ( 1955 ) – " The Last Day on Earth ", " The Black Sheep's Daughter "
In 1955 Leiber and Stoller produced a recording of their song " Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots " with a white vocal group, the Cheers.
* Jeremy Black ( historian ) ( born 1955 ), British military historian
* 1955 – Black and White – Sabrina – won
* Mark Donaldson ( rugby player ) ( born 1955 ), New Zealand All Black rugby union player
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