In 1955, the Bengali Prime minister Muhammad Ali Bogra devolved the province of East Bengal and established the state as East Pakistan with Dhaka its state capital.

Owing to the continuing political instability, Mirza forced Prime minister Bogra to resign from his office, despatching him as Pakistan Ambassador to the United States in 1955.

Nawabzada Mohammed Ali Bogra (; October 19, 1909 — January 23, 1963 ) was a well-known and notable Pakistani Foreign service officer of Bengali origin, serving as the third Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 until 1955, and prior to that, was also the Foreign Minister of Pakistan from 1954 to 1955.

Bogra was forced to resign in 1955 by the new Governor General, Iskander Mirza.

Four years later, Chaudhry Muhammad Ali was made Prime Minister by Governor General of Pakistan Iskander Mirza in 1955, after the removal of Muhammad Ali Bogra.

* Muhammad Ali Bogra ( President ) July 1954-September 1955

* Muhammad Ali Bogra ( died 1969 ), Notable Diplomat, former Prime Minister of Pakistan ( from 1953 – 1955 )

On 21 December 1955, Powell was appointed parliamentary secretary to Duncan Sandys at the Ministry of Housing.

" In January 1955, the RCC appointed him as president, pending an election to the office.

As a result of the Messina Conference of 1955, Paul-Henri Spaak was appointed as chairman of a preparatory committee ( Spaak Committee ) charged with the preparation of a report on the creation of a common European market.

Nol was appointed the Army Chief of Staff in 1955, and commander-in-chief of the armed forces in 1960, as well as serving as Defence Minister.

At the 5th session of the DRV First National Congress ( 1955 ), Dong was appointed prime minister.

Macmillan served as Foreign Secretary in April – December 1955 in the government of newly appointed prime minister Anthony Eden, who had taken over from the retiring Winston Churchill.

Macmillan was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in December 1955, after just eight months as Foreign Secretary, and held this role for just over a year.

Missouri has a county that eliminated the position of elected sheriff in 1955 ; the St. Louis County Police Department has an appointed police chief that performs the duties of the sheriff.

In 1955, after one of the club's worst seasons, Alan Killigrew was appointed coach.

In 1955 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff to the Inspector-General of the Royal Netherlands Navy Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld and aide-de-camp to Queen Juliana, after which he returned to sea in 1958 as commander of the submarine chaser HNLMS Gelderland.

He was also appointed Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog, Denmark in 1955.

In 1955 Betty Robbins, born in Greece, became the world's first female cantor when she was appointed cantor of the Reform congregation of Temple Avodah in Oceanside, New York, in July.

In 1955, the Messina Conference of European leaders appointed him as chairman of a preparatory committee ( Spaak Committee ) charged with the preparation of a report on the creation of a common European market.

In 1955 Sir Kenneth Barnes retired and John Fernald was appointed principal.

Re-elected deputy in 1951 as an independent overseas member, Senghor was appointed state secretary to the Council's president in Edgar Faure's government from 1 March 1955 to 1 February 1956.

In 1955, he was appointed MGM's director of technical research and by the time he retired in 1968 he had won an additional seven Scientific or Technical Academy Awards.

He was appointed president of the Odelsting, acted as the parliamentary leader for his party and served as its chairman from 1955 to 1967.

Mr Evans continued in service as Manager until his retirement on 1 June 1955 when Allan Garraway was appointed as Manager.

In recognition of his efforts to resolve the Moroccan Crisis leading up to the international conference, Abd al-Aziz appointed al-Muqri as his Minister of Finance and in 1908, his Grand Vizier, a post he would hold on and off under each of the succeeding sultans until 1955.

He was appointed a Field Marshal in 1955 and a Marshal of the Royal Air Force in 1958.

He joined the newly-formed service in 1955 and two years later was appointed commanding officer of the 1.

He was appointed as American ambassador to the Philippines by President Harry Truman, and served there from 1952 to 1955.

He was appointed House Majority Whip in 1955 and was elected House Majority Leader in 1961.

He was elected to the third Knesset in 1955 as a member of Ahdut HaAvoda and was appointed Minister of Transportation.

The Congress agreed to his request in 1955 for the Formosa Resolution, which enabled him to prevent Chinese communist aggression against Chinese nationalists and established U. S. policy of defending Taiwan.

" In November 1955 Philby gave a press conference in which – calmly, confidently, and without the stammer he had struggled with since childhood – he reiterated his innocence, declaring, " I have never been a communist.

* 1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310, 000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.

* 1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.

The Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance ( 1955 – 1991 ), more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.

In 1955, diplomatic relations were severed with the ransacking of Pakistan's embassy and again in 1961, when Pakistan Armed Forces had repelled a major communist revolt in Bajaur region of Pakistan.

After the communist revolution at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, which led to the creation of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), Tsinghua University's then President Mei Yi-Qi, followed by many professors, fled to Taiwan where they established the National Tsing Hua Institute of Nuclear Technology in 1955, which later became National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan.

Gabriele Zimmer ( called Gabi ; born 7 May 1955 in Berlin, GDR ) is a German communist politician.

A famous example is the poem " Strophes pour se souvenir ", which was written by the communist academic Louis Aragon in 1955 to commemorate the heroism of the Manouchian Group, whose 23 members were shot by the Nazis.

On April 9, 1955 the authorities of Lithuanian SSR once again renamed the town, this time to Kapsukas, after a Lithuanian communist politician Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas.

In 1955, the Alliance government together with the British High Commissioner declared an amnesty for the communist insurgents who surrendered.

In 1955, SSIS published a list of what it described as the 82 most active and typical sponsors of communist fronts in the United States ; some of those named had literally dozens of affiliations with groups that had either been cited as Communist fronts or had been labelled " subversive " by either the subcommittee or the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

The Labor Party under John Cain had come to power at the 1952 elections, but in 1955 the party suffered a split over the issue of communist influence in the trade unions, and Cain's government had fallen when a faction of anti-communist Catholics MPs voted against it in Parliament.

When Harlan was a Circuit Judge in 1955, he authorized the decision upholding conviction of leaders of the communist party ( including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ) under the Smith Act.

In 1948, under communist pressure ( Stalinisation ), the club was renamed Unia Chorzów, in 1955 it became Unia-Ruch, and finally in 1956 returned to the name Ruch.

After his term in Canada ended in 1946, MacDonald moved on to serve in other Imperial posts: as Governor-General of Malaya to 1948 and then Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia during the communist insurrection ; as High Commissioner in India from 1955 to 1960 ; as co-chairman of the Laos Conference ; and finally as Governor-General of Kenya between 1963 and 1964, at which time Kenya became independent.

Its foreign policy followed strict neutrality supporting the Bandung Conference of 1955, shunning the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation ( SEATO ) on account of the American support of the KMT on one hand, and facing the communist insurgencies on the other.

In 1955 he fell out with Maria Callas during the performances of Medea at the Rome Opera and in 1961 his contract with La Scala was terminated after an open conflict with fellow Bulgarian Nicolai Ghiaurov whom Christoff blamed for collaborating with the Bulgarian communist regime.

Flier issued in May 1955 by the Keep America Committee, alleging a conspiracy theory that water fluoridation is a communist plot.

In 1955, SSIS published a list of what it described as the 82 most active and typical sponsors of communist fronts in the United States ; some of those named had literally dozens of affiliations with groups that had either been cited as Communist fronts or had been labelled " subversive " by either the subcommittee or the House Committee on Un-American Activities.