At the 1955 St. Louis convention in Missouri, Wilson relinquished stewardship of AA to the General Service Conference, as AA grew to millions of members internationally.

* 1955 – Alberto Gonzales, American politician, 80th United States Attorney General

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

Chiang Ching-kuo orchestrated the controversial court-martial and arrest of General Sun Li-jen in August 1955, for plotting a coup d ' état with the American CIA against his father Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang.

In 1955, W. Thomas Grubb, a chemist working for the General Electric Company ( GE ), further modified the original fuel cell design by using a sulphonated polystyrene ion-exchange membrane as the electrolyte.

* John Kelley ( 1955 ), General topology, Von Nostrand.

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 – Mick Jones, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite, General Public, Carbon / Silicon, and London SS )

Eventually in 1955, he was coroneted a Thirty-Third Degree Inspector General Honorary in the Southern Scottish Rite Jurisdiction.

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

The Indian consulate was opened in Muscat in February 1955 and five years later it was upgraded to a Consulate General and later developed into a full fledged Embassy in 1971.

The rank of the feast was reduced to a Commemoration in the 1955 General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII and the General Roman Calendar of 1962.

By 1955, the internal power struggle between the two ( main ) factions of the Phibul regime-led by Police General Phao Sriyanonda, on the one hand, and General ( later, Field Marshal ) Srisdi Dhanarajata, on the other-became fierce to the degree that Police General Phao Sriyanonda sought the U. S. support for a coup against the Phibul regime ( but was rejected ).

' 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.

* August 11 – Rodolfo Graziani, Italian General ( d. 1955 )

Vice Admiral Mustin, a 1955 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served in the 1980s as the Naval Inspector General, Commander, Second Fleet and Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans and Policy.

In another advisory opinion issued in 1955, the Court further ruled that the General Assembly was not required to follow League of Nations voting procedures in determining questions concerning South-West Africa.

* Paula Dow ( born 1955 ), 58th Attorney General of New Jersey

The " College Quiz Bowl " was broadcast on NBC radio from 1953 to 1955 ; General Electric College Bowl was televised on CBS and later NBC from 1959 to 1970, College Bowl returned to CBS radio 1979-82, and HCASC was broadcast on BET until 1995.

He was Parliamentary Adviser to the Police Federation from 1955 to 1960 when he negotiated an increase in police pay with the then General Secretary Arthur Charles Evans.

The division into doubles ( of various kinds ) semidoubles and simples continued until 1955, when Pope Pius XII abolished the rank of semidouble, making all the previous semidoubles simples, and reducing the previous simples to a mere commemoration in the Mass of another feast day or of the feria on which they fell ( see General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII ).

After the ratification of the Paris Accords on 5 May 1955, the General Treaty ( Deutschlandvertrag ), which largely restored ( West ) German sovereignty, took effect.

* Location Theory and Regional Economic Growth, Journal of Political Economy 63 ( 3 ): 243 – 258, 1955.

alt = Detroit inset from the General Location of National System of Interstate Highways Including All Additional Routes at Urban Areas Designated in September 1955 ( Yellow Book )

The General Location of National System of Interstate Highways Including All Additional Routes at Urban Areas Designated in September 1955, or Yellow Book after the cover color, showed generalized plans for the locations of Interstate Highways as designated in 1955.

The General Location of National System of Interstate Highways Including All Additional Routes at Urban Areas Designated in September 1955, or Yellow Book after the cover color, showed generalized plans for the locations of Interstate Highways as designated in 1955.

General Location of National System of Interstate Highways, a 1955 proposal for what would become the Interstate Highway System, included a spur freeway from what would become Interstate 10, proceeding north along a route similar to the modern Piestewa freeway.

* Location changed 9 November 1955 to Kearny, New Jersey ; on 6 December 1958 to Edison, New Jersey

* Beckmann, M and T. Marschak, An Activity Analysis Approach to Location Theory, Kyklos, 8, 128 – 143, 1955,

This plan was included in the 1955 General Location of National System of Interstate Highways ( Yellow Book ), an early proposal for what would become the Interstate Highway System.

Atomic timekeeping services started experimentally in 1955, using the first caesium atomic clock at the National Physical Laboratory, UK ( NPL ).

KFC had been founded in 1910, had nearly become National Champion in 1934 through a narrow loss to Ajax in the finals, and had been professional since 1955.

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.

Dr. Benjamin D. Santer ( born June 3, 1955 in Washington, DC, United States ) is a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and former researcher at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit.

Image: NSC_meeting. jpg | President Dwight D. Eisenhower meets with his National Security Council at Laurel Lodge, 1955

I ", Los Alamos National Laboratory ( through predecessor agency Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, ( May 1955 ).

* 1955 – The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.

* In 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower gave Hoover the National Security Medal.

In late 1954, those who stayed in Cambodia founded a legal political party, the Pracheachon Party, which participated in the 1955 and the 1958 National Assembly elections.

The inaugural first-class match at the National Stadium was played between Pakistan and India on 26 February 1955 and since then Pakistani national cricket team has won 20 of the 41 Test matches played at the National Stadium.

* 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.

* National Day, celebrates the anniversary of the Declaration of Neutrality in 1955.

Following pressure by the American Rocket Society, the National Science Foundation, and the International Geophysical Year, military interest picked up and in early 1955 the Army and Navy were working on Project Orbiter, two competing programs, the army's which involved using a Jupiter C rocket, and the civilian / Navy Vanguard Rocket, to launch a satellite.

But it was National AAU champion swimmer, Esther Williams, who popularized synchronized swimming through ( often elaborately staged ) scenes in Hollywood films such as Bathing Beauty ( 1944 ), Million Dollar Mermaid ( 1952 ), and Jupiter's Darling ( 1955 ).

He served in the U. S. Army from 1955 to 1957, working at the National Security Agency.

* Murray, Robert K., Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919-1920 ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955 )

Development of such engines started under the aegis of the Atomic Energy Commission in 1955 as Project Rover, with work on a suitable reactor starting at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Area 25 in the Nevada Test Site.

Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize ( 1960, 1962 ), Palme d ' Or ( 1966 ), and 35th Anniversary Prize ( 1982 ); the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion ( 1955 ), Golden Lion ( 1964 ), FIPRESCI Prize ( 1964, 1995 ), and Pietro Bianchi Award ( 1998 ); the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon eight times ; and an honorary Academy Award in 1995.

The first caesium clock was built by Louis Essen in 1955 at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK.

From 1951 to 1955 he was a member of the National Assembly, the parliament of Czechoslovakia.

In Argentina, the successive military coups that overthrew constitutional governments installed de facto governments in 1930, 1943 – 1945, 1955 – 1958, 1966 – 1973 and 1976-1983, the last of which combined the powers of the presidential office to those of the National Congress.

Menem enrolled in the National University of Córdoba, and received the degree of " Abogado ", equivalent to a Bachelor of Laws, in 1955.

Following National Service in the Royal Army Educational Corps from 1948 to 1949, he read Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1952, then earned his PhD in physics in 1955, supervised by Abdus Salam in the group led by Paul Dirac.

The USSR defeated the nationalist Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and the USA precipitated the US – Vietnam War ( 1965 – 1975 ) by participating in the Vietnamese Civil War ( 1955 – 1965 ) that the National Liberation Front fought against the Republic of Vietnam, the Asian client state of the United States.