* St Nicholas Lodge of Mark Master Masons No. 1188 was consecrated on the 30 March 1955, it currently meets on the third Thursday in February, April, June, August & October

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.

The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > Régiment Étranger Parachutiste, 1 < sup > e </ sup > REP ) was established in 1955 during the Algerian War and disbanded in April 1961 as the entire regiment rose against the French government of Charles de Gaulle ( Algiers Putsch ), in protest against moves to negotiate an end to the Algerian War and providing Algeria's independence from France.

(" Medical use of hypnosis ", British Medical Journal, April 1955 )

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 ).

Paul J. McAuley ( born 23 April 1955 ) is a British botanist and award-winning author.

After sitting on the bench for the Pirates ' first three games, Clemente played on April 17, 1955, in the first game of a double header against the Dodgers and made his first major league hit, a ground ball that hit off the glove of shortstop Pee Wee Reese, as well as a catch-dubbed " heart-stopping " by a Pirates beat writer-to rob his Santurce teammate, Junior Gilliam.

On radio RTÉ Radio produced its first radio soap Kennedys of Castleross which began broadcasting on April 13, 1955 and ran until 1975.

The first popular science-fiction program on American television was the children's adventure serial Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which ran from June 1949 to April 1955.

' Traditional Taekwon-Do ' may refer to ITF Taekwon-Do as created by the founder of ITF Taekwon-Do General Choi Hong Hi on April 11 1955 ; or WTF Taekwondo, founded by Dr Kim Un Yong on May 25, 1973.

The name " taekwondo " was submitted by either Choi Hong Hi ( of the Oh Do Kwan ) or Song Duk Son ( of the Chung Do Kwan ), and was accepted on April 11, 1955.

The Valiant entered service in 1955, the Vulcan in 1956 and the Victor in April 1958, with the first Valiant squadron, No. 138 Squadron RAF forming at RAF Gaydon in 1955, and the first Vulcan squadron, No. 83, at RAF Waddington in May 1957.

* April 13 – Charles Christie, Canadian-born film studio owner ( d. 1955 )

Kelly headed the US delegation at the Cannes Film Festival in April 1955.

" Mind LXIV, No, 254 ( April 1955 ).

On 14 April 1955 the Post Office was renamed Tallangatta East and a new Tallangatta office opened at the new town location.

Prior to the arms deal, at the Bandung Conference in Indonesia in April 1955, Nasser was treated as the leading representative of the Arab countries and emerged as one of the key figures of the conference and the newly established Non-Aligned Movement.

* An April 1955 concert in Cleveland, Ohio including the earliest known live recordings of " Rock Around the Clock " ( Rock ' n ' Roll Show, Hydra Records, 1995 );

Dole was initiated as a Freemason of Russell Lodge No. 177, Russell, Kansas on April 19, 1955.

On 18 April 1955, fourteen representatives met at Camp Detrick in Frederick, Maryland.

In April 1955, Lim Chin Siong was elected as Assemblyman for the Bukit Timah constituency.

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

Svante Pääbo ( born 20 April 1955 ) is a Swedish biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics.

On 1 April 2010, the UK Cabinet declared the Chagos Archipelago a Marine Protected Area ( MPA ) and prohibited all extractive industry, including fishing and oil and gas exploration.

A subsidiary issue is the Mauritian opposition to the UK Government's declaration of 1 April 2010 that the BIOT is a Marine Protected Area with fishing and extractive industry ( including oil and gas exploration ) prohibited.

In 2010, in the wake of both the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia on April 5, that killed 29 miners and on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 crew on April 20, Turner stated on CNN that " I'm just wondering if God is telling us He doesn't want to drill offshore.

In April 1989, Rangers owner and oil tycoon Eddie Chiles, sold the team to an investment group headed by George W. Bush, son of the President of the United States, George H. W. Bush.

* April 25 – 26 – WWII: Last major strategic bombing raid by RAF Bomber Command, the destruction of the oil refinery at Tønsberg in southern Norway by 107 Avro Lancasters.

* April 18 – The United States Navy retaliates for the USS Samuel B. Roberts ( FFG-58 ) mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.

* April 10 – Lee Jung Seob, Korean oil painter ( d. 1956 )

* April 7 – The United Kingdom asks the United Nations Security Council for authority to use force to stop oil tankers that violate the embargo against Rhodesia ( authority is given April 10 ).

In addition to acting, Gaynor was an accomplished visual artist and her oil paintings were featured at the Wally Findlay Galleries show in New York, March 25 to April 7, 1977.

In April 1833 Edward Henty, returning to Van Diemen's Land from Spencer Gulf called in to Portland for a cargo of oil, and was much impressed.

On 3 April 2010, The Shen Neng 1, a Chinese ship carrying 950 tonnes of oil, ran aground, causing the 2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill.

In April, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced the firm agreed to pay $ 14 million related to an attempt to hide prohibited trading activity in oil futures.

Signal Hill, completely surrounded by the city of Long Beach, was incorporated on April 22, 1924, roughly three years after oil was discovered there.

A fateful day in Electra's history was April 1, 1911, when the Clayco gusher successfully drilled for oil.

On 20 April 1940, oil was found at a depth of 1048 meters at the Raman oil field, nearby ( south-east of ) Batman.

On April 7, 1931, the first Gladewater oil well blew in.

In April 2002, following heated debate ; the U. S. Senate killed a proposal by the administration of George W. Bush to let oil companies drill in ANWR.

After witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California, and inspired by the student anti-war movement, he called for an environmental teach-in, or Earth Day, to be held on Wednesday, April 22, 1970.

In April 1922, a small Wyoming oil operator wrote to Senator John B. Kendrick, angered that Sinclair had been given a contract to the lands in a secret deal.