In 1950, the company announced the DB2, followed by the DB2 / 4 in 1953, the DB2 / 4 MkII in 1955, the DB Mark III in 1957 and the Italian-styled 3. 7 L DB4 in 1958.

* Michel Rambaud, ' Le Soleil de Pharsale ', Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1955

Denton True " Cy " Young ( March 29, 1867 – November 4, 1955 ) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher.

On November 4, 1955, Cy Young died on his farm at the age of 88.

Relations with China improved, as evidenced by Chinese aid to Albania being 4. 2 % in 1955 before the visit, and rising to 21. 6 % in 1957.

* 1955 – Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.

Brando made the Top Ten Money Making Stars, as ranked by Quigley Publications ' annual survey of movie exhibitors, three times in the decade, coming in at number 10 in 1954, number 6 in 1955, and number 4 in 1958.

* On October 4, 1955, early in his career, Elvis Presley performed at the Boys Club Gymnasium at 1530 1st Street Northeast in Paris as a member of the Louisiana Hayride Jamboree tour.

On Sunday, December 4, 1955, plans for the Montgomery Bus Boycott were announced at black churches in the area, and a front-page article in The Montgomery Advertiser helped spread the word.

In 1955 Chrysler produced the C-300 with its 300 HP 331 cu in ( 5. 4 L ) OHV engine, which easily won in 1955 and 1956.

* March 4 – Mihály Károlyi, former Prime Minister of Hungary and President of Hungary ( d. 1955 )

* February 4 – Sheila Kaye-Smith, English writer ( d. 1955 )

On 4 August 1955, Miranda suffered a heart attack during a segment of the live NBC television series, The Jimmy Durante Show.

One of the oldest 404s known to exist is the 1955 Serial Number 4, located in Washington state.

* The Adventures of Robin Hood – Episode " Friar Tuck " as Sir William of Marmsbury, " Checkmate " as Count De Waldern ( series 1: 1955 ), " A Village Wooing " as Wat Longfellow ( series 2: 1956 ) and " The Reluctant Rebel " as Herbert ( series 4: 1958 ).

It opened in the summer of 1955 and was capable of speeds up to Mach 4, but cost only $ 6, 000, the result of using scrap for most of its parts.

Bull's work was brought to the public's attention in a May 20, 1955 Toronto Telegram headline article, Unveil Canadian Gun that Fires 4, 550 M. P. H.

On August 4, 1955, The Jimmy Durante Show on NBC was the venue of the final performance by the famous Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda.

Approximately half of the white students boycotted the schools beginning on August 4, 1955.

The Totowa Fire Department ( TBFD ) is an entirely volunteer fire department and was established in April, 1908 The TBFD consists of four " companies ," which include ; Volunteer Fire Company # 1 ( 1908 ), Lincoln Fire Company ( 1908 ), Riverview Fire Company # 3 ( 1925 ), and Fire Rescue Company # 4 ( 1955 ).

Water Control and Improvement District No. 4 was established on land near the Killeen city limits and the military Post in 1955, and included the land owned by Pinckney R. Cox and Harley Kern, two hog farmers.

It occurred at Hodges Park on July 4, 1955, when he followed his friends, the Blackwood Brothers, at the Battle of Songs show.

* Most PGA Tour victories at an event: 8 at the Greater Greensboro Open ( 1938, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1965 )

As part of the suburban growth of London in the 20th century it expanded and increased in population, becoming a municipal borough in 1955 and has formed part of Greater London since 1965.

It was renamed to the William Jolly Bridge on 5 July 1955 in memory of William Jolly, the first Lord Mayor of Greater Brisbane.

This behavior is well studied in the Greater Honeyguide ; some authorities ( following Friedmann, 1955 ) state that it also occurs in the Scaly-throated Honeyguide, while others disagree ( Short and Horne, 2002 ).

The current site that was chosen for the Baltimore Civic Center was actually not one of the many sites proposed to the Greater Baltimore Committee in 1955.

John Speight was born at 57 Chester Rd Canning Town, West Ham, Essex ( now Greater London ), and began contributing scripts to comedy shows in 1955, starting with Great Scott-It's Maynard !.

In addition to that listed by Friedmann ( 1955: 41-47 ), the only recent record is of a Greater Honeyguide giving its guiding call to baboons at Wankie Game Reserve, Zimbabwe ( C. J. Vernon, pers.

The corporation is the successor to the Greater New York Association, a non profit racing association created in 1955.

The tracks came under common ownership with the creation of a non-profit association known as the Greater New York Association in 1955.

In 1955, the Greater New York Association took over Aqueduct along with Belmont Park, Saratoga Race Course, and Jamaica Racetrack, deciding to make major upgrades to Aqueduct, after which Jamaica Racetrack would be sold for redevelopment as a housing project.

Since 1955 the event has been run by the non-profit Greater Anchorage, Inc.

Meanwhile, Vienna was occupied by the four allied powers until 1955, and in 1946 had returned three quarters of the pre-war expanded Greater Vienna to the state of Lower Austria.

The London County Council ( later, Greater London Council ) decided in 1955 to build a second concert hall and an art gallery on the eastern part of the South Bank site previously occupied by a lead works and shot tower ( and which had been earmarked as a site for the National Theatre ).

1955 map of the planned Interstates in the Greater Los Angeles Area.

Whittle was born female on 29 May 1955 at Altrincham Cottage Hospital, Greater Manchester, where his grandmother was a senior nurse.

Marek Maciej Siwiec ( born on 13 March 1955 in Piekary Slaskie ) is a Polish politician and since 2004 Member of the European Parliament for the Greater Poland Voivodship with the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

The name changed to ' Greater Union Organisation ', or GUO in the 1950s, a time which saw the formation of strategic alliances with Hoyts and the predecessor to Village Roadshow ( 1955 and 60 ) in order to exploit opening markets.

National chairman of the United Jewish Appeal from 1950 to 1955, president of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York, and a member of the New York State Board of Regents from 1958 to 1975

Forms of protest and / or civil disobedience included boycotts such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott ( 1955 – 1956 ) in Alabama ; " sit-ins " such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins ( 1960 ) in North Carolina ; marches, such as the Selma to Montgomery marches ( 1965 ) in Alabama ; and a wide range of other nonviolent activities.

Fulton is a 1955 graduate of Greensboro College and was granted an honorary doctorate in 2005, on the 50th anniversary of her college graduation.

The club was known variously as the Patriots ( 1945 – 1951 ), the Greensboro Pirates ( 1952 – 1954 ), the Patriots again ( 1955 – 1957 ), the Greensboro Yankees ( 1958 – 67 ), and the Patriots once again ( 1968 ).

In February 1986, Cameron-Brown Co., a $ 10 billion mortgage banker created in 1955 from the merger of Fidelity Bond & Mortgage Co. ( started in 1946 in Raleigh ) and Brown-Hamel Mortgage Co. of Greensboro, changed its name to First Union Mortgage Corp. to match its parent company.