* 1920 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer ( d. 1955 )

* August 29 – Charlie Parker, African-American saxophonist and composer ( d. 1955 )

Following their return to the First Division, Bobby Ancell took management of the club in 1955 and presided over an era in which highly regarded Scotland stars including Ian St. John and Charlie Aitken played for the club.

Crossroads Charlie was rescheduled as Operation Wigwam, a deep water shot conducted in 1955 off the California coast.

He was also the originator of the " Bird Lives " legend and graffiti in New York City after the death of Charlie Parker in March 1955.

In Switzerland, Dorian spent time with Charlie Chaplin's large family before giving birth to her son Kim Blas Parker on September 27, 1955.

* Charlie Parker or Bird ( 1920 – 1955 ), American jazz musician

* Charlie Parker ( 1920 – 1955 ), jazz musician

* Charlie Parker: ( 1920 – 1955 ) American musician

Engagements with Lionel Hampton, Slim & Slam, T-Bone Walker, Lester Young, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnet, Billy Eckstine, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Billie Holiday, Gerry Mulligan and six years with Lena Horne established him as a jazz drummer, and he struck out on his own as a bandleader in 1955.

Recognized as an expert in jazz, he was recruited at the age of twenty-seven to host a radio show the day of the death of bebop saxophonist Charlie Parker in 1955.

This appears to be a retcon ; prior to 1962, earlier strips implied that her birthday was January 28 ( in the February 22, 1951, strip, she had said her birthday was a month ago, and in the January 29, 1955, strip, Charlie Brown claimed her birthday was " yesterday ").

Karr was born January 16, 1955, in Groves, a small town in South East Texas located in the Port Arthur region, known for its oil refineries and chemical plants, to J. P. and Charlie Marie ( Moore ) Karr.

* Charlie Parker ( 1920 – 1955 ), saxophonist

Other notable recordings include a presciently elegiac version of " Parker's Mood ", the year before Charlie Parker died in 1955, and Pleasure's take on Ammons's " Hittin ' the Jug ", retitled as " Swan Blues ".

* Charlie Morgan ( born 1955 ), drummer and percussionist

On a small note of significance, Charlie " Choo Choo " Brackins, who played from 1952 – 1955, was the first HBCU alumnus to play quarterback in the NFL Reginald Gillard who played receiver for the New England Patriots.

Jet engines were applied after World War II, in such types as the Teledyne Ryan Firebee I of 1951, while companies like Beechcraft also got in the game with their Model 1001 for the United States Navy in 1955.

Katherine Kiernan Maria " Kate " Mulgrew ( born April 29, 1955 ) is an American actress, most noted for her roles on Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Kathryn Janeway and Ryan's Hope as Mary Ryan.

In October, the network began a two-decade long run as broadcaster of baseball's World Series, with airtime responsibilities shared between WGN's Bob Elson and Quin Ryan and WLW's Red Barber ( NBC and CBS also carried the series that year ; the Fall Classic would air on all three networks through 1938 and exclusively on Mutual through 1955 ).

In 1955 Textron acquired American Woolen, significantly increasing its net worth and stock price, and, in just a few months, Ryan Industries ( maker of mechanical and electromechanical devices such as a pistol that fired triangular bullets ), Homelite ( chain saws, power generators, blowers, and pumps ), Camcar Screw and Manufacturing Company, Coquille Plywood, and Kordite Company ( plastic clotheslines, garment bags, and shower curtains ).

In January 1955, Ryan made her first television sitcom appearance on an episode of CBS's The Danny Thomas Show.

* Michael Ryan ( hurling manager ) ( born 1955 ), Irish retired hurler and manager of the Waterford senior hurling team

The society was founded on September 14, 1955, as the " Testy Test Pilots Society " and had Scott Crossfield of NACA, Ray Tenhoff of Northrop, Joe Ozier of Lockheed, Dick Johnson and John Fitzpatrick of Convair, Tom Kilgariff of Douglas, and Lou Everett of Ryan Aeronautical Company as its original members.

* Danny Wilson ( rugby ) ( born 1955 ), Welsh rugby league player and father of Ryan Giggs

Foster was succeeded in 1945 by Edward William O ' Flaherty Lynam, Superintendent of the Map Room at the British Library and the first of a long line of post-war presidents whose terms of office were restricted to a period of five years: Malcolm Letts ( 1950 – 54 ); Professor J. N. L. Baker ( 1955 – 59 ); Sir Alan Burns ( 1959 – 64 ); Sir Gilbert Laithwaite ( 1964 – 69 ); C. F. Beckingham ( 1969 – 72 ); Esmond S. de Beer ( 1972 – 78 ); Glyndwr Williams ( 1978 – 82 ); David Beers Quinn ( 1982 – 87 ); Sir Harold Smedley ( 1987 – 92 ); Professor Paul E. H. Hair ( 1992 – 97 ); Sarah Tyacke ( 1997 – 2002 ); Professor Roy Bridges ( 2002 – 08 ); Professor Will Ryan ( 2008 – 11 ); and Captain Mike Barritt ( 2011 -).

( 1952 ), with Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn, Robert Aldrich's Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), with Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, The Treasure of Pancho Villa ( 1955 ), Robert Mitchum in Bandido ( 1956 ) and The Wonderful Country ( 1959 ), The Professionals ( 1966 ), with Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode.

As Lester Pearson wrote in 1955::

Joe Martin, the Republican Speaker from 1947 – 1949 and again from 1953 – 1955, wrote that Eisenhower " never surrounded himself with assistants who could solve political problems with professional skill.

In 1989, French composer Pascal Dusapin ( born 1955 ) wrote a solo piece called In et Out for double bass.

But Lippmann turned against what he called the " collectivism " of the Progressive movement he encouraged with its de-emphasis on the foundations of American politics and government and ultimately wrote a work, " The Public Philosophy " ( 1955 ), which came very close to a return to the principles of the American founders.

Spider Robinson, a colleague, friend, and admirer of Heinlein, wrote Variable Star, based on an outline and notes for a juvenile novel that Heinlein prepared in 1955.

* A Mighty Man is He ( 1955 ), play, wrote song Rag Me That Mendelssohn March

" Also, Achelis wrote in 1955, ( JCR Vol.

Released in January 1955, The New Yorker wrote of Kelly and Holden's unbridled on-screen chemistry, taking note of Kelly's performance of the part " with quiet confidence.

* Fredric Brown wrote Martians, Go Home ( 1955 ), a spoof of Wells's Martian invasion concept.

" Amid The New York Times pan of the film when it opened in August 1955, the reviewer wrote, " About five minutes ( out of ninety-five ) suggest the picture this might have been.

In 1955, Remarque wrote the screenplay for an Austrian film, The Last Act ( Der letzte Akt ), about Hitler's final days in the bunker of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, which was based on the book Ten Days to Die ( 1950 ) by Michael Musmanno.

George Simon wrote the liner notes for eleven Miller reissues, among them: Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band, 1955, Glenn Miller On The Air, 1963, and Glenn Miller: A Legendary Performer, 1974.

He wrote speeches for Welles ' opening on June 15, 1955, and spent considerable time trying to persuade Welles to do it, but was unsuccessful.

Thornton Wilder wrote A Life in The Sun ( 1955 ) based on Euripides ' play, later producing an operatic version called The Alcestiad ( 1962 ).

Whilst in Istanbul, Fleming wrote an account of the Istanbul Pogroms, " The Great Riot of Istanbul ", which was published in The Sunday Times on 11 September 1955.

Sykes and Milligan are credited as the co-writers of all but the first six of the 26 episodes in Series 5 ( 1954 – 55 ) and three episodes of Series 6 ( 1955 – 56 ); Sykes also wrote a 15-minute Goon Show Christmas special, The Missing Christmas Parcel, broadcast during the Children's Hour on 8 December 1955.

In 1955 Sykes wrote and performed in a BBC Christmas spectacular, a spoof pantomime called Pantomania, which featured many well-known BBC personalities of the era ; it was directed by Ernest Maxin, who went on to produce some of the most famous comedy routines for Morecambe & Wise.

In early 1955, she and her team wrote a specification for such a programming language and implemented a prototype.

Referring to Charles I of England, historian Veronica Wedgwood wrote this sentence in her 1955 book The King's Peace, 1637 – 1641: " The King in his natural optimism still believed that a silent majority in Scotland were in his favour.

Also in 1955, while Nixon was serving as vice-president to Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and his research assistants wrote in his book Profiles in Courage, " Some of them may have been representing the actual sentiments of the silent majority of their constituents in opposition to the screams of a vocal minority ..." In January 1956, Kennedy gave Nixon an autographed copy of the book.

Grave of Georges AuricEspecially notable among his film music is the lavishly impressionistic score that he wrote for Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ); other films include Passport to Pimlico ( 1948 ), Silent Dust ( 1949 ), The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ), Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), The Wages of Fear ( 1953 ), The Divided Heart ( 1954 ), Lola Montes ( 1955 ), Rififi ( 1956 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1956 ), Bonjour Tristesse ( 1958 ), The Night Heaven Fell ( 1958 ), Goodbye Again ( 1961 ), and Therese and Isabelle ( 1968 ).

Hart-Davis wrote no more books until after his retirement from publishing, but between 1955 and 1962, he wrote about a quarter of a million words to his old schoolmaster George Lyttelton, which, together with Lyttelton's similar contribution, made up the six volumes of the Lyttelton / Hart-Davis Letters, published between 1978 and 1984 after Lyttelton's death.

As sewage, industrial wastewater and urban runoff flowed freely into the river from the surrounding city, the Charles River became well known for its high level of pollutants, gaining such notoriety that by 1955, Bernard DeVoto wrote in Harper's Magazine that the Charles was " foul and noisome, polluted by offal and industrious wastes, scummy with oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water.