* 1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.

Full enfranchisement of citizens was not secured until after the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) gained passage by the United States Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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.

* 1955 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.

The government began a program of rapid industrialization after the APL's Second Party Congress and a campaign of forced collectivization of farmland in 1955.

* 1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.

On 5 May 1955, union delegates gathered in New York on behalf of 16 million workers, to witness and support the merger of The American Federation of Labor and The Congress of Industrial Organization.

After its adoption by the First Pan African Congress in 1947, the Three-Stage Chronology was amended by the Third Congress in 1955 to include a First Intermediate Period between Early and Middle, to encompass the Fauresmith and Sangoan technologies, and the Second Intermediate Period between Middle and Later, to encompass the Magosian technology and others.

Ernest Gruening was elected to the Senate on October 6, 1955 for the 84th Congress but did not take the oath of office and was not accorded senatorial privileges, Alaska not yet being admitted as a state.

At the United Nations in 1955, the United States significantly delayed universal adoption by withholding support " unless such a reform were favoured by a substantial majority of the citizens of the United States acting through their representatives in the Congress of the United States.

Among honors which Smith received over the years were DuPont Awards in 1955 and 1963, a Sigma Delta Chi Award for radio journalism in 1957, and an award from the American Jewish Congress in 1960.

In Argentina, the successive military coups that overthrew constitutional governments installed de facto governments in 1930, 1943 – 1945, 1955 – 1958, 1966 – 1973 and 1976-1983, the last of which combined the powers of the presidential office to those of the National Congress.

Consequently the society was ineffective, although surprisingly the South African Communist Party used Stirling's multi-racial elitist model for its 1955 " Congress Alliance " when taking over the African National Congress of South Africa.

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

His cautionary fables include " The Beautiful People " ( 1952 ), a futuristic short story about a rebellious adolescent girl who lives in a largely conformist society in which people obligatorily alter their physical appearance ( adapted as an episode of The Twilight Zone: " Number 12 Looks Just Like You "), and " Free Dirt " ( 1955 ), about a frugally gluttonous man who gorges on his entire vegetable harvest, but instead dies from having consumed the magical soil he used to grow it.

* People ( TV series ) ( 1955 ), a Canadian television series

* The Land and People of South Africa, 1955

In April 1955, Spare was asked to give an interview for the BBC radio show People Talking, presented by Dennis Mitchell.

Report to the Canadian Human Rights Commission on the Complaints of the Inuit People Relocated from Inukjuak and Pond Inlet, to Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay in 1953 and 1955.

With his own orchestra, he released a number of hits including " Ruby " ( 1953 ), " Unchained Melody " ( 1955 ) and " The Poor People Of Paris " ( 1956 ).

* ( 1955 ) Wake The Town And Tell The People

* 1947 – 1955: Rally of the French People ( RPF )

Our Square and the People in It ( 1917 ), Success ( 1921 ), Siege ( 1924 ), The Gorgeous Hussy ( 1934 ), Maiden effort ( 1937 ), The Harvey Girls ( 1942 ), Canal Town ( 1944 ), Grandfather Stories ( 1955 ), and Tenderloin ( 1959 ).

Walter Francis White ( July 1, 1893, Atlanta, Georgia – March 21, 1955, New York, New York ) was a civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) for almost a quarter of a century and directed a broad program of legal challenges to segregation and disfranchisement.

He became active in the South African Congress of Democrats ( an ally of the ANC as part of the Congress Alliance ) and was a delegate to the June 1955 Congress of the People organised by the ANC and Indian, Coloured and white organisations at Kliptown near Johannesburg, that drew up the Freedom Charter.

Among his works are The People Win Through ( 1951 ), Burma under the Japanese ( 1954 ), An Asian Speaks ( 1955 ), and Burma Looks Ahead ( 1951 ).

He returned home in May 1953, and although he was not present at the Congress of the People in 1955 he assisted Lionel " Rusty " Bernstein draw up the Freedom Charter that was adopted there.

The Charter was officially adopted on 26 June 1955 at a Congress of the People in Kliptown.

After an extended transition during which segments of the former CDSA came within the purview of the People ’ s Liberation Army, it was fully re-established as an organ directly under the Communist Party Central Committee in 1955, now with the new name Central Investigation Department ( CID ).

Animals and Other People, 1955

She was a founder member of the Congress of Democrats, and one of the leaders who read out clauses of the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown in 1955.

The Supreme Court of California ruled in People v. Cahan ( 1955 ) that the exclusionary rule applied for cases in the state of California.

In 1955 Dreyfuss wrote Designing for People, an autobiography which features his " Joe " and " Josephine " simplified anthropometric charts.

Following the Representation of the People Act 1948 the Central Ayrshire constituency between 1950 and 1955 consisted of Irvine, Kilwinning, Stewarton, Troon, Kilbirnie and part of the district of Kilmarnock.

She provided the voice for Cleo the basset hound in Jackie Cooper's NBC series The People ’ s Choice ( 1955 – 58 ).

" George Square, Holyrood, St Giles " was the description of the Central seat between 1950 and 1955, following the Representation of the People Act 1948.

In 1955, Wilkins was named executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ).

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 ).

* 1955 – The first Disneyland theme park, in Anaheim, California, officially opens to the public.

In October 1955 Philby was officially cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, who told the House of Commons, " I have no reason to conclude that Mr. Philby has at any time betrayed the interests of his country, or to identify him with the so-called ' Third Man ', if indeed there was one.

PUT was officially founded in 1955 and the first rector was Roman Kozak.

On March 16, 1955, the United States Air Force officially ordered the development of an advanced reconnaissance satellite to provide continuous surveillance of ' preselected areas of the earth ' in order ' to determine the status of a potential enemy ’ s war-making capability '.

The notes were officially withdrawn on various dates between April 1 and May 10, 1955.

Thiệu was a lieutenant colonel when the Republic of Vietnam ( South Vietnam ) was founded and officially gained full sovereignty after the withdrawal of French forces in 1955, following the 1954 Geneva Agreement.

Dewey is not listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D. C. because the United States Department of Defense has ruled that the war officially started, from a U. S. perspective, on November 1, 1955, after the U. S. took over following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu.

" In 1955, UNC officially desegregated its undergraduate divisions.

In 1906, the name Gardendale was selected and in 1955, the City of Gardendale was officially incorporated.

Original names of the town included Cordova Vineyards and Cordova Village, before it was officially named Rancho Cordova when a post office was established in the community in 1955.

Cupertino officially became Santa Clara County's 13th City on October 10, 1955.

Mesa was officially incorporated on June 23, 1955.

Algona was officially incorporated on August 22, 1955.

Hunts Point was officially incorporated on August 22, 1955.

Airway Heights was officially incorporated on June 28, 1955.

In 1949, the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation ( based in Hagerstown, Maryland ) started work on the C-123 Provider, the transport officially entering service in 1955.

The building was named Mercury House after the Roman messenger of the gods and was officially opened by Lord Reith in December 1955.

In response, the Ministers of Culture of the federal states in West Germany officially declared the Duden spellings to be binding as of November 1955.

The Danish and Norwegian alphabet is based upon the Latin alphabet and has consisted of the following 29 letters since 1917 ( Norwegian ) and 1955 ( Danish ), although Danish did not officially recognize the W as a separate letter until 1980.

USPTO granted trademark registration on November 25, 1924. International Cellucotton Products Company officially assigned trademark interest and good will of the business to Kimberly-Clark Corporation on September 30, 1955.

On March 22, 1955, at its First Party Congress, that the clandestine Lao's People's Party or Phak Pasason Lao was officially proclaimed.

A report by Human Rights in China ( HRIC ) states that re-education through labor was first used by the Communist Party of China in 1955 to punish counter-revolutionaries, and in 1957 was officially adopted into law to be implemented by the Ministry of Public Security.

The new buildings were officially opened in 1955.