* 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.

* 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 );

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.

In April 2007, Borland announced that it would be relocating its headquarters and R & D facilities to Austin, Texas.

He surrounded Donald Duck and nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie with a cast of eccentric and colorful characters, such as the aforementioned Scrooge McDuck, the wealthiest duck in the world ; Gladstone Gander, Donald's obscenely lucky cousin ; inventor Gyro Gearloose ; the persistent Beagle Boys ; the sorceress Magica De Spell ; Scrooge's rivals Flintheart Glomgold and John D. Rockerduck ; Daisy's nieces April, May and June ; Donald's neighbor Jones, and The Junior Woodchucks organization.

Saint Catherine of Siena, T. O. S. D, ( 25 March 1347 in Siena – 29 April 1380 in Rome ) was a tertiary of the Dominican Order, and a Scholastic philosopher and theologian.

* Development of other content distribution networks on the internet through P2PTV ; EBU Project Group D / P2P, from November 2007 to April 2008, with a trial of selected member channels, thanks to Octoshape's distribution platform.

* 1953 – James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA ; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature ( pub.

The Greens founded the first international chapter of a German political party in the U. S. on April 13, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington D. C. Its main goal is " to provide a platform for politically active and green-oriented German citizens, in and beyond Washington D. C., to discuss and actively participate in German Green politics.

A new government was formed by the Democrats of the Left leader and former communist Massimo D ' Alema, but in April 2000, following poor performance by his coalition in regional elections, D ' Alema resigned.

On April 6, 1965, Intelsat ’ s first satellite, the Intelsat I ( nicknamed Early Bird ), was placed in geostationary orbit above the Atlantic Ocean by a Delta D rocket.

Goebbels knew how to play on Hitler's fantasies, encouraging him to see the hand of providence in the death of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 12 April.

John Wilkes Booth ( May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865 ) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D. C., on April 14, 1865.

On April 19, 1909, the Biograph Company director D. W. Griffith screen-tested her at the company's New York studio for a role in the nickelodeon film Pippa Passes.

He received his Ph. D. in April 1930 for a thesis on alternative algebras.

On April 4, 2006, Abdul filed a report at a Hollywood police station claiming she had been a victim of battery at a private party at about 1 a. m. April 2, according to L. A. P. D.

On April 3, 2009, Run – D. M. C.

On April 17, 2012, Discovery was transported by Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to Dulles from Kennedy Space Center, where it made several passes over the Washington D. C. metro area.

In recognition of his distinguised services to the Victorian community, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws ( honoris causa ) – LL. D ( h. c .) by Deakin University on 27 April 2010.

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.

Richard Rush of Pennsylvania, a representative of President Jackson who helped to present a compromise to both governors. On April 3, 1835, Jackson sent two representatives from Washington, D. C., Richard Rush of Pennsylvania and Benjamin Chew Howard of Maryland, to Toledo to arbitrate the conflict and present a compromise to both governments.

* April 9 – African-American singer Marian Anderson performs before 75, 000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., after having been denied the use both of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and of a public high school by the federally controlled District of Columbia.

* April 3 – Richard D ' Oyly Carte, English impresario ( born 1844 )

* April 12 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies suddenly at Warm Springs, Georgia ; Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd President.