When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.

In response, eight women in San Francisco met in their living rooms in 1955 to socialize and have a place to dance.

" During Kurtzman's final two-plus years at EC, Mad appeared erratically ( ten issues appeared in 1954, followed by eight issues in 1955 and four issues in 1956 ).

Durocher remained at the helm of the Giants through the 1955 season, and those eight years proved to be some of the most memorable for Giants fans, particularly because of the arrival of Willie Mays and arguably the two most famous plays in Giants ' history.

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.

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.

During the early post-war era ( 1947 – 1955 ), eight foreign language films received Special or Honorary Awards.

Gilmour famously lent The Spectator ’ s voice to the campaign to end capital punishment in Britain, writing an incensed leader attacking the hanging of Ruth Ellis in 1955, in which he claimed " Hanging has become the national sport ", and that the home secretary Gwilym Lloyd George, for not reprieving the sentence, " has now been responsible for the hanging of two women over the past eight months ".

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.

* On 13 February 1955, the pilots of a SABENA flight from Brussels to Rome lost orientation when approaching Ciampino Airport, resulting in the aircraft involved, a Douglas DC-6 registered OO-SDB, crashing into the slope of Monte Terminillo at 18: 53 local time, killing the 21 passengers and eight crew on board.

In October 1955, eight women — four couples — met to provide each other with a social outlet.

When Janet Frame was released in 1955 from eight years of voluntary incarceration in New Zealand psychiatric hospitals, Sargeson invited her to stay in an ex-army hut on his property.

However, the seal of Ribot's greatness were his two victories in the Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe by three lengths ( 1955 ) and a six-length rout from an exceptionally strong field ( 1956-though photographs of the finish make it closer to eight and a half lengths ) and his only run in England, where he scored a five-length win on the soft Ascot ground in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes ( 1956 ).

Since its inauguration in 1955, eight horses have won the Trotting Triple Crown.

The official tariff for punishment in this case was lowered in time from twenty strokes to eight, then ( in 1949 ) six, and progressively four and two, until flogging was outlawed completely in 1955.

He " played all eight matches, scored three tries and was recognised by the Rugby Almanack as one of the 1955 season's most promising players.

The men's basketball team has appeared eight times in the NCAA Tournament: 1950, 1954, 1955, 1980, 1986, 1988, 1996, and 2006.

On May 25, 1955, he defeated Arthur Emboule by decision in eight rounds, in his first bout after the shooting.

Snider finished second to teammate Roy Campanella in the 1955 Most Valuable Player balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers Association of America by just five points, 226-221, with each man receiving eight first place votes.

It was established in 1901 and dissolved in 1955, after eight years as part of the independent state of Pakistan.

From 1955 through 1960 Erdman toured extensively as a solo artist throughout the U. S. Notable works from her repertory of that period include Changingwoman ( 1951 ) with a commissioned score by Henry Cowell including vocalizations by Erdman as she moved through a multi-colored abstract projected environment, Portrait of a Lady created to jazz recordings that were layered by John Cage into his eight track commissioned score, Dawn Song, a lyrical solo with commissioned score by Alan Hovhaness, Fearful Symmetry ( 1956 ) an allegory in six visions inspired by William Blake's poem, The Tyger to Ezra Laderman's Sonata for Violincello in which Erdman emerged from and interacted with a metal sculpture by Carlus Dyer, and Four Portraits from Duke Ellington's Shakespeare Album ( 1958 ), a suite of comic portrayals of Shakespearean heroines.

With Ferdinand-Jean Darier ( 1856 – 1938 ) and Henri Gougerot ( 1881 – 1955 ), he was editor of an eight volume encyclopedia of dermatology titled Nouvelle Pratique Dermatologique.

The first BMW Isetta rolled off the line in April 1955, and in the next eight months some 10, 000 of the " bubblecars " were produced.

In 1954, Schlesinger married Rachel Line Mellinger ( born February 27, 1930 – died October 11, 1995 ); they had eight children: Cora ( 1955 ), Charles ( 1956 ), Ann ( 1958 ), William ( 1959 ), Emily ( 1961 ), Thomas ( 1964 ), Clara ( 1966 ), and James ( 1970 ).

Profiles in Courage is a 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States Senators throughout the Senate's history.

* 1955 – The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network.

Another of his tunes, " Matchbox Blues ", was recorded more than 30 years later by The Beatles, albeit in a rockabilly version credited to Carl Perkins, who himself did not credit Jefferson on his 1955 recording.

At 72 years of age, Attlee contested the 1955 general election against Anthony Eden, which saw the Conservative majority increase.

He retired as leader of the party on 14 December 1955, having led Labour for twenty years, and was succeeded by Hugh Gaitskell.

His classification was the standard one for many years ( Greenberg 1955: 3 ).

The first was in Gloucester in 1950 and the process gathered pace over the next few years, especially after a second television channel, ITV, was launched in 1955 to compete with BBC.

* Top 10 list ( for years 1951, 1955 – 1968, 1981 – 2009 )

Dylan's legacy as the " doomed poet " was cemented with the publication of Brinnin's 1955 biography Dylan Thomas in America, which focusses on his last few years and paints a picture of him as a drunk and a philanderer.

It was the Wings ' first Stanley Cup since 1955, breaking the longest drought ( 42 years long ) in the league at that time.

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.

He pursued these ideas for over twenty years until the end of his life, in 1955.

In another remarkable event of 1955, the Soviet Union decided to return the Porkkala peninsula to Finland, which had been rented to the Soviet Union in 1948 for 50 years as a military base, a situation which somewhat endangered Finnish sovereignty and neutrality.

In 1955, 21 years later, Petersen retired having created 12 major sculptures for the campus and hundreds of small studio sculptures.

She spent her last years in a close personal and professional collaboration with anthropologist Rhoda Metraux, with whom she lived from 1955 until her death in 1978. Letters between the two published in 2006 with the permission of Mead's daughter clearly express a romantic relationship.

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 concept of " mutual aerial observation " was initially proposed to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin at the Geneva Conference of 1955 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower ; however, the Soviets promptly rejected the concept and it lay dormant for several years.

The battle of the name raged on for many years and drove a wedge between Louis and LeGros Clark, Sir Wilfrid from 1955, who took the Paranthropus view.

The A's would struggle on for four more years with only one winning team, and then abandon Philadelphia ( under the Johnson brothers, who bought out Mack ) and start play in Kansas City in 1955.

In 1955 approximately 41. 2 % of the population was under fifteen years of age, a percentage that rose to 43. 5 % in 1966 before falling to 38. 3 % in 1975, 34. 2 % in 1980, and 29. 9 % in 1985.

The members of each Worldcon are the members of WSFS and vote both to select the site of the Worldcon two years later and ( since 1955 ) to select the winners of the Hugo Awards, which are presented at the convention.

On 14 May 1955, the USSR established the Warsaw Pact in response to the integration of the Federal Republic of Germany into NATO in October 1954 – only nine years after the defeat of Nazi Germany ( 1933 – 45 ) that ended with the Soviet and Allied invasion of Germany in 1944 / 45 during World War II in Europe.

On 1 July 1991, in Prague, the Czechoslovak President Václav Havel formally ended the 1955 Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance and so disestablished the Warsaw Treaty after 36 years of military alliance with the USSR.

In 1955, Kuharich led the Redskins to their first winning season in ten years and was named both Sporting News Coach of the Year and UPI NFL Coach of the Year.