Cape Breton Island is joined to the mainland by the Canso Causeway, which was completed in 1955, enabling direct road and rail traffic to and from the island, but requiring marine traffic to pass through the Canso Canal at the eastern end of the causeway.

Finland joined the United Nations in 1955 and the European Union in 1995.

West Germany played a central role in the creation of European cooperation ; it joined NATO in 1955 and was a founding member of the European Economic Community in 1958.

In 1955, both nations joined the Baghdad Pact.

*: 1955: Allen Kent joined Case Western Reserve University, and eventually became associate director of the Center for Documentation and Communications Research.

Hy Eisman described the atmosphere at the NCS when he joined in 1955:

In 1955, Louis Walcott joined the Nation of Islam.

In 1955, he joined the recently formed Copper Office ( Departamento del Cobre, now CODELCO ), where he worked until 1959 as a research analyst in the copper industry.

Cohen ( 1955 ): working class teenagers joined gangs due to frustration of inability to achieve status and goals of the middle class ; Cloward and Ohlin ( 1960 ): blocked opportunity, but unequal distribution of opportunities lead to creating different types of gangs ( that is, some focused on robbery and property theft, some on fighting and conflict and some were retreatists focusing on drug taking ); Spergel ( 1966 ) was one of the first criminologists to focus on evidence-based practice rather than intuition into gang life and culture.

In 1955 West Germany joined NATO.

In 1955 joined the Central Committee of the Slovak branch and in 1962 became a member of the presidium.

In 1955, Lumumba became regional head of the Cercles of Stanleyville and joined the Liberal Party of Belgium, where he worked on editing and distributing party literature.

He constructed the grammar and vocabulary of at least fifteen Elvish languages and dialects in roughly 3 eras: 1910-c. 1930 Primitive Quendian the proto-language, Common Eldarin, Quenya and Goldogrin ; the middle era from c. 1935 till 1955, where Goldogrin had significantly changed and was now Noldorin, joined by Telerin, Ilkorin, Doriathrin and the Avarin.

In 1955 the U. S. Naval Observatory joined the growing astronomical presence, and established the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, where Pluto's satellite, Charon ( moon ) was discovered in 1978.

After this he studied from 1955 at the University of Leiden, where he joined the students ' corps.

Reno, Nevada joined the league in 1955 and continued as a member for 37 years.

His brother Henri " The Pocket Rocket " Richard joined him with the Canadiens in 1955 and would go on to win eleven Stanley Cups with the team, an NHL record.

He acceded to the Tax and Revenue Service, then joined the staff of Prime Minister Edgar Faure ( 1955 – 1956 ).

He then joined the Lao Dong Politburo of the Vietnam Workers ' Party in 1955, now the Communist Party of Vietnam.

George Martin joined in 1950 as assistant label manager, taking over as manager in 1955.

Miller continued his research at California Institute of Technology ( 1954 – 1955 ) and then joined the department of biochemistry at Columbia University, New York where he worked for the next five years.

Following the outbreak of the Algerian revolution in November 1954 he joined the Front de Libération Nationale as a result of contacts with Dr Pierre Chaulet at Blida in 1955.

For the first six years of the Aldeburgh Festival, the joint Artistic Directors remained Britten, Pears and Crozier ; in 1955, Britten and Pears were in sole charge, then the following year they were joined by Imogen Holst, who remained a member of the Artistic Directorate until her death in 1984.

By 1955, more than 30, 000 residents had joined them.

In 1953 she joined the Magnum Photos Agency, founded by top photographers in Paris, and became a full photographer with them in 1955.

Historically, one of the most important protagonists of the movement was Walter Martin ( 1928 – 89 ), whose numerous books include the 1955 The Rise of the Cults: An Introductory Guide to the Non-Christian Cults and the 1965 The Kingdom of the Cults: An Analysis of Major Cult Systems in the Present Christian Era, which continues to be influential.

* 1955 – Christian Sackewitz, German footballer

The Christian Petersen Art Museum in Morrill Hall is named for the nation ’ s first permanent campus artist-in-residence, Christian Petersen, who sculpted and taught at Iowa State from 1934 through 1955, and is considered the founding artist of the Art on Campus Collection.

In 1955 a plaque was put up near “ the remains of the shrine of ‘ Little St Hugh ’” in the cathedral, that decries the “ Trumped up stories of ‘ ritual murders ’ of Christian boys by Jewish communities .”

Richard Wayne " Rich " Mullins ( October 21, 1955 – September 19, 1997 ) was an American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter born in Richmond, Indiana.

Christian musician and preacher Homer Rodeheaver made Winona Lake his home from 1912 until his death in 1955.

* Percy W. Christian ( 1955 – 1964 )

He entered the Turner-Boatright Christian ministry school and earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1955.

In 1951 he was elected to the National Council of Switzerland for the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland and represented the Canton of Fribourg there until 1955.

* Esbjornson, Robert A Christian in Politics: Luther W. Youngdahl ( 1955 )

from: 01 / 02 / 1955 till: 21 / 02 / 1960 color: A text :" Hans Christian Hansen " fontsize: 10

Ward had a series of girlfriends that included Eunice Bailey, the top Christian Dior model in the 1950s, Margaret Brown and Vickie Martin, who was killed in a car crash in 1955.

Christian Ernest Marclay ( born 11 January 1955 ) is a Swiss and American visual artist and composer.

Christian Marclay was born on 11 January 1955 in San Rafael, Marin County, California, to a Swiss father and an American mother and raised in Geneva, Switzerland.

John Raleigh Mott ( May 25, 1865 – January 31, 1955 ) was a long-serving leader of the YMCA and the World Student Christian Federation ( WSCF ).

* The Christian Apostolic Church ( formed in 1955 from a split with the German Apostolic Christian ) church has three churches in Forrest, Illinois ; Salem, Oregon ; and Sabetha, Kansas with approximately 150 members.

** The Christian Apostolic Church was the result of a 1955 schism from the German Apostolic Christian Church.

In the 1950s Samuel Goldwyn turned to making a number of musicals including the 1952 hit Hans Christian Andersen ( his last with Danny Kaye, with whom he had made many others ), and the 1955 hit Guys and Dolls starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine, which was based on the equally successful Broadway musical.

It was founded in 1955 and is affiliated with the Christian Reformed Church.

He became a Christian, and now, as “ David ,” in 1955 married Augusta Mahoney, daughter of Sir John Mahoney, a prominent Aku in Bathurst.

* John White ( Christian author ) ( 1955 – 2002 ), author of the Archives of Anthropos series