* St Nicholas Lodge of Mark Master Masons No. 1188 was consecrated on the 30 March 1955, it currently meets on the third Thursday in February, April, June, August & October

Mountbatten served his final posting at the Admiralty as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from April 1955 to July 1959, the position which his father had held some forty years prior.

The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > Régiment Étranger Parachutiste, 1 < sup > e </ sup > REP ) was established in 1955 during the Algerian War and disbanded in April 1961 as the entire regiment rose against the French government of Charles de Gaulle ( Algiers Putsch ), in protest against moves to negotiate an end to the Algerian War and providing Algeria's independence from France.

In April 1955, oil exploration started in the kingdom with its first oil fields being discovered in 1959.

(" Medical use of hypnosis ", British Medical Journal, April 1955 )

According to a statement of proceedings published elsewhere in the same edition of the BMJ, the report was officially ‘ approved at last week ’ s Council meeting of the British Medical Association .’ ( BMA Council Proceedings, BMJ, April 23, 1955: 1019 ).

Paul J. McAuley ( born 23 April 1955 ) is a British botanist and award-winning author.

After sitting on the bench for the Pirates ' first three games, Clemente played on April 17, 1955, in the first game of a double header against the Dodgers and made his first major league hit, a ground ball that hit off the glove of shortstop Pee Wee Reese, as well as a catch-dubbed " heart-stopping " by a Pirates beat writer-to rob his Santurce teammate, Junior Gilliam.

On radio RTÉ Radio produced its first radio soap Kennedys of Castleross which began broadcasting on April 13, 1955 and ran until 1975.

The first popular science-fiction program on American television was the children's adventure serial Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which ran from June 1949 to April 1955.

' Traditional Taekwon-Do ' may refer to ITF Taekwon-Do as created by the founder of ITF Taekwon-Do General Choi Hong Hi on April 11 1955 ; or WTF Taekwondo, founded by Dr Kim Un Yong on May 25, 1973.

The name " taekwondo " was submitted by either Choi Hong Hi ( of the Oh Do Kwan ) or Song Duk Son ( of the Chung Do Kwan ), and was accepted on April 11, 1955.

The Valiant entered service in 1955, the Vulcan in 1956 and the Victor in April 1958, with the first Valiant squadron, No. 138 Squadron RAF forming at RAF Gaydon in 1955, and the first Vulcan squadron, No. 83, at RAF Waddington in May 1957.

* April 13 – Charles Christie, Canadian-born film studio owner ( d. 1955 )

Kelly headed the US delegation at the Cannes Film Festival in April 1955.

" Mind LXIV, No, 254 ( April 1955 ).

On 14 April 1955 the Post Office was renamed Tallangatta East and a new Tallangatta office opened at the new town location.

Prior to the arms deal, at the Bandung Conference in Indonesia in April 1955, Nasser was treated as the leading representative of the Arab countries and emerged as one of the key figures of the conference and the newly established Non-Aligned Movement.

Dole was initiated as a Freemason of Russell Lodge No. 177, Russell, Kansas on April 19, 1955.

On 18 April 1955, fourteen representatives met at Camp Detrick in Frederick, Maryland.

In April 1955, Lim Chin Siong was elected as Assemblyman for the Bukit Timah constituency.

The notes were officially withdrawn on various dates between April 1 and May 10, 1955.

Svante Pääbo ( born 20 April 1955 ) is a Swedish biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics.

On April 8, 1995, a staged concert was held at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a benefit for the Gay Men's Health Crisis.

presented a staged concert from April 8 through April 11, 2010, with Sutton Foster as Nurse Fay Apple, Donna Murphy as Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper, and Raul Esparza as Hapgood, with direction and choreography by Casey Nicholaw.

An English-language version, simply titled Kristina, was staged in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City for two nights in September 2009, yielding a live recording, and at the Royal Albert Hall for one night in April 2010.

Parton and Wagoner performed their last duet concert in April 1974, and she ceased appearing on his TV show in mid-1974, though they remained affiliated, with him helping to produce her records through 1975.

ELO's debut concert took place on 15 April 1972 at The Fox & Hounds Pub in Croydon, U. K. with a line-up of Wood, Lynne, Bevan, Bill Hunt ( horns, keyboards ), Wilfred Gibson ( violin ), Hugh McDowell ( cello ), Mike Edwards, Andy Craig ( cello ) and Richard Tandy on bass.

His compositions did not receive public acclaim until he went on a concert tour as accompanist to the Hungarian violinist Eduard Reményi in April and May 1853.

The concert, which took place in April 2007 at Carnegie Hall, was a celebratory performance of Adams's work on his sixtieth birthday.

The band set another attendance record, with an audience of 76, 229 at their Pontiac Silverdome concert on 30 April.

George Harrison performed a fund-raising concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London for the NLP on 6 April 1992, his first full concert in the UK since 1969.

On April 30, 2010, Patti Smith headlined a benefit concert headed by band-mate Tony Shanahan, for The Court Tavern of New Brunswick.

The Pixies played their first reunion concert on April 13, 2004, at The Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a warm-up tour through the U. S. and Canada was followed by an appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

On November 8, 2011, the band released Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland, a concert DVD, Blu-ray and double CD documenting the April 15, 2011, concert at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.

The New York City Center birthday celebration and benefit concert on April 26, 2010 featured ( in order of appearance ): Michael Cerveris, Alexander Gemignani, Donna Murphy, Debra Monk, Joanna Gleason, Maria Friedman, Mark Jacoby, Len Cariou, B. D.

* April 30 – Led Zeppelin sets a new world record attendance for an indoor attraction at the Pontiac Silverdome when 76, 229 persons attend a concert here on the group's 1977 North American Tour.

* April 23 – Judy Garland performs in a legendary comeback concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

* April 29 – The fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical Hair is celebrated with a free concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons.

* April 13, 1823 – Eleven-year-old Franz Liszt gives a concert after which he is personally congratulated by Ludwig van Beethoven.

* April 13 – Eleven-year-old Franz Liszt gives a concert after which he is personally congratulated by Ludwig van Beethoven.

* April 4 – The legendary symphony conductor Arturo Toscanini experiences a lapse of memory during a concert.

To celebrate their 40th anniversary ( 1967 – 2007 ), Tangerine Dream announced their only UK concert at London Astoria on 20 April 2007.

In 2009 the group announced that they would play a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, on 1 April 2010, titled the Zeitgeist concert, 35 years after their milestone concert there on 2 April 1975.