In 1955, the Congress of the People officially adopted the Freedom Charter, stating the core principles of the South African Congress Alliance, which consisted of the African National Congress and its allies the South African Communist Party ( SACP ), the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress of Democrats ( COD ) and the Coloured People's Congress.

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

Post-World War II Japan has historically been dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party but there was a brief coalition government formed after the 1993 election following LDP's first loss of its overall House of Representatives majority since 1955.

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.

The liberal conservative LDP was in power from 1955 to 2009, except for a very short-lived coalition government formed from its opposition parties in 1993 ; the largest opposition party was the social liberal Democratic Party of Japan in the late 1990s and late 2000s.

Continual fragmentation of parties and a succession of minority governments led conservative forces to merge the Liberal Party ( Jiyuto ) with the Japan Democratic Party ( Nihon Minshuto ), an offshoot of the earlier Democratic Party, to form the Liberal Democratic Party ( Jiyu-Minshuto ; LDP ) in November 1955.

In October 1955, socialist groups reunited under the Japan Socialist Party, which emerged as the second most powerful political force.

In late 1954, those who stayed in Cambodia founded a legal political party, the Pracheachon Party, which participated in the 1955 and the 1958 National Assembly elections.

Méndez Fleitas was unpopular with Colorado Party stalwarts and the army, who feared that he was trying to build a following as did his hero, Juan Domingo Perón, Argentina's president from 1946 to 1955.

Italian radicals also maintained close links with republicanism, as well as with socialism, with the Partito radicale founded in 1955, which became the Transnational Radical Party in 1989.

Founded in 1955, the Saint Vincent Labour Party ( SVLP ), under Milton Cato, gained the support of the middle class.

In 1955, the GUU won the Observer Mace, now the John Smith Memorial Mace, named after the deceased GUU debater and former leader of the British Labour Party.

When Li returned to China, in 1955, the country was firmly under the control of the Communist Party.

* Radical Party ( 1955 – 1989 )

* Radical Party ( Italy ), emerged from the left-wing of Italian Liberal Party, 1955 – 1989

The background of the party is in 1955 as a progressive liberal faction of the Italian Liberal Party which formed the Radical Party ( Partito Radicale ).

From 16 May – 17 June 1955, Nikolai Bulganin and Anastas Mikoyan visited Yugoslavia and Khrushchev renounced the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the Communist bloc.

From 1955 to 1965, Guattari edited and contributed to La Voie Communiste ( Communist Way ), a Trotskyist newspaper.

His first wife, Betsy Blair, was suspected of being a Communist sympathizer and when MGM, who had offered Blair a part in Marty ( 1955 ), were considering withdrawing her under pressure from the American Legion, Kelly successfully threatened MGM with a pullout from It's Always Fair Weather unless his wife was restored to the part.

Communist Bloc Conclave: The Warsaw Pact conference, 11 May 1955, Warsaw, Poland.

From 1951 to 1955, the FBI operated a secret " Responsibilities Program " that distributed anonymous documents with evidence from FBI files of Communist affiliations on the part of teachers, lawyers, and others.

In the mid-20th century, the hegemonic conflict was ideologic, between the Communist Warsaw Pact ( 1955 – 1991 ) and the capitalist NATO ( 1949-present ), wherein each hegemon competed directly ( the arms race ) and indirectly ( proxy wars ) against any country whose internal, national politics might destabilise the respective hegemony.

Although the 17-point agreement had provided for an autonomous administration led by the Dalai Lama, a " Preparatory Committee for the Autonomous Region of Tibet " ( PCART ) was established in 1955 to create a parallel system of administration along Communist lines.

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.

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

Scargill was a member of the Young Communist League from 1955 to 1962, when he joined the Labour Party.

By 1955 he had become involved in politics as well as trade union activity ; he joined the Young Communist League, becoming its Yorkshire District Chair in 1956 and, later in the same year, a member of its National Executive Committee.

Political upheaval and Communist insurrection put an end to the monarchies of Indochina after World War II: a short-lived attempt to leave a monarchical form of government in post-colonial South Vietnam came to naught in 1955, a military coup overthrew the kingless monarchy in Cambodia in 1970 and a Communist takeover ended the monarchy in Laos in 1975.

The Silkworm was developed at the Institute of Mechanics under Qian Xuesen, a Chinese scientist who did his graduate studies at MIT and Caltech, before being deported by the United States in 1955 after being suspected of Communist ties.

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.

After publishing, in September 1955, a critical article about the construction of Nowa Huta, a Cracow conurbation built on a site chosen by Soviet " advisors " as the " first socialist municipality in Poland ", which brought to light the inhuman working and living conditions of the labourers involved in the venture — a story which occaioned consternation before eventually winning favour with the Communist authorities unsure at first how to react to a fault-finding depiction of their pet project by one of their own — Kapuściński was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit at the age of 23.

* George M Thomas ( born 1955 ), Communist Party of India politician

The Communist Party never again held such a strong position in the union movement, nevertheless the issue remained potent and in 1955 the Democratic Labor Party was formed by disaffected ALP members who were concerned over Communist influence in some Australian Unions.

Thus, Mao announced his decision to develop China's own strategic weapons, including nuclear bombs and associated missiles for the warheads, during a Communist Party of China ( CPC ) Central Committee meeting held on January 15, 1955.

Elections for the council were held in 1955, and the Alliance, which had now expanded to include the Malayan Indian Congress ( MIC ), issued a manifesto stating its goals of achieving independence by 1959, requiring a minimum of primary school education for all children, protecting the rights of the Malay rulers as constitutional monarchs, ending the Communist emergency, and reforming the civil service through the hiring of more Malayans as opposed to foreigners.

** Movement for the Reorganization of the Communist Party of Greece 1918 – 1955

The Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man also after a line in " On Wenlock Edge " and Arthur C. Clarke's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman's More Poems.

In 1955, the USSR declared the Soviet occupation zone – the historic middle portion of Germany – to be a sovereign state named the Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( German Democratic Republic, established in 1949 ), while the Red Army and the Western Allies ' occupation forces remained in place under the tripartite Potsdam Agreement ( 1945 ) which established the Allied Occupation of Germany.

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.

On his first game back, Williams hit a home run, and he batted. 356 in 320 at bats on the season, lacking enough at bats to win the batting title over Al Kaline, who batted. 340 in 1955, while hitting 28 home runs and driving in 83 runs, while being named the " Comeback Player of the Year ".

** 101. mendelevium, Md, named after the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, credited for being the primary creator of the periodic table of the chemical elements ( 1955 ).

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.

" Nigger Nate Grade ", near Temecula, California, named for Nate Harrison, an ex-slave and settler, was renamed " Nathan Harrison Grade Road " in 1955, at the request of the NAACP.

In 1958, ground was broken for a $ 35 million facility that opened in November 1960, and was named after McCormick, who died in 1955.

1955: Bellanca Aircraft sold to Northern Aircraft ( later named Downer then International Aircraft or Inter-Air ) of Alexandria, Minnesota.

The Hallstein Doctrine, named after Walter Hallstein, was a key doctrine in the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) after 1955.

At the time the Hallstein Doctrine was born ( or at least named ), Heinrich von Brentano was the foreign minister, a post that had been recently created, after West Germany largely regained its sovereignty in 1955 — before this, political responsibility for foreign policy had been retained by the chancellor, Konrad Adenauer.

* 1955: The Bridges at Toko-Ri-No nominees named

The couple's four sons were Mickey Jr. ( 1953 – 2000 ), David ( born 1955 ), Billy ( 1957 – 94 ), whom Mickey named for Billy Martin, his best friend among his Yankee teammates, and Danny ( born 1960 ).

Choi combined elements of taekkyeon and Shotokan karate to develop a martial art that he called " Taekwon-Do " ( 태권도 ; 跆拳道 ), which means " foot, hand, the way " or " the way of hand and foot " and it was so named on 11 April 1955.

In 1955, Dulles was named Man of the Year in Time Magazine.

Until 1955 it was named Seine-Inférieure.

Bessville is named after the Bess family, including Sam Bess ( who was the owner of the very first store here ) and Levi Bess, the first postmaster of the post office that was in existence in Bessville from July 25, 1856-March 21, 1864 and then again from April 6, 1871-April 30, 1955.

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.

Radcliff's Fire Department was established in 1955, with Joseph B. Hutcherson named the first fire chief.

The village of Hessmer was incorporated in 1955, but the name was first noted for the community when William Edenborn named the depot there when building his railroad through the area in 1903.

The village of Franklin incorporated on November 8, 1953, the village of Bingham Farms on June 7, 1955, and the village of Beverly Hills ( originally named the Village of Westwood ) in April, 1958.

Originally named Great Falls Army Air Base, later Great Falls Air Force Base, the facility was renamed Malmstrom Air Force Base on 1 October 1955 in honor of Colonel Einar Axel Malmstrom ( 1907 – 1954 ).

With a publishing deal in place, Axton arranged through Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker to present the song to Presley at the annual Country Music Disc Jockey Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was to be named the most promising male country star of 1955.