August 1955

August 1, 1955 (Monday)

August 2, 1955 (Tuesday)

August 3, 1955 (Wednesday)

August 4, 1955 (Thursday)

  • The 1955 Mitropa Cup football competition is won by Vörös Lobogó, with ÚDA Praha as runners-up after the second leg of the final.
  • While her act is being filmed for NBC variety series The Jimmy Durante Show, Carmen Miranda complains of feeling ill and out of breath, but finishes her performance.[1][2]

August 5, 1955 (Friday)

August 6, 1955 (Saturday)

August 7, 1955 (Sunday)

  • The French département of Bône is created out of the eastern extremity of the former département of Constantine in Algeria.

August 8, 1955 (Monday)

August 9, 1955 (Tuesday)

August 10, 1955 (Wednesday)

August 11, 1955 (Thursday)

August 12, 1955 (Friday)

August 13, 1955 (Saturday)

August 14, 1955 (Sunday)

August 15, 1955 (Monday)

August 16, 1955 (Tuesday)

  • A new world record glider speed of 67.304km/h over a triangular course of 200km is set by Edward Makula, the first of seven world records Makula would hold in the course of his career.[12]

August 17, 1955 (Wednesday)

August 18, 1955 (Thursday)

  • The First Sudanese Civil War begins.
  • First meeting of the Organization of Central American States (Organización de Estados Centroamericanos, ODECA), in Antigua Guatemala.

August 19, 1955 (Friday)

  • Hurricane Diane hits the northeastern United States, killing over 200 people, and causing over $1.0 billion in damage.

August 20, 1955 (Saturday)

August 21, 1955 (Sunday)

August 22, 1955 (Monday)

  • Eleven schoolchildren are killed when their school bus is hit by a freight train in Spring City, Tennessee, United States after the driver disregards a crossing signal; a further 39 are injured.

August 23, 1955 (Tuesday)

August 24, 1955 (Wednesday)

August 25, 1955 (Thursday)

August 26, 1955 (Friday)

  • Satyajit Ray's film Pather Panchali is released in Calcutta, India, receiving a poor initial response but quickly attracting audiences to become a classic of Indian cinema.[14]

August 27, 1955 (Saturday)

August 28, 1955 (Sunday)

August 29, 1955 (Monday)

August 30, 1955 (Tuesday)

  • Grodno Zoo, in Belarus, receives its first Asian elephant, from Vietnam.[18]

August 31, 1955 (Wednesday)

  • Lockheed Aircraft Corporation engineering test pilot Stanley Beltz is killed in a crash near Lancaster, California, USA, while piloting an F-94B Starfire modified to test the nose section of the BOMARC missile.[19]
  • The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad begins experiments with air conditioning on its subway cars, a technology that the New York City Subway system declared impractical before then.[20] This experiment results in the first successful production application of air conditioning in a rapid transit car, 50 cars (20 owned by H&M, 30 by H&M parent PRR) built by St. Louis Car Company in 1958.
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  2. "Actress Dies After Making Video Film". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 6 August 1955. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
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  4. Paxman, Jon (2014). Classical Music 1600–2000: A Chronology. London: Omnibus. ISBN 978-1-84449-773-7.
  5. Division of Stirling - Australian Electoral Commission
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  8. "Twelve Drown When Schooner Capsizes". The Times (53299). London. 15 August 1955. col C, p. 5.
  9. David Longshore (2008). Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones, New Edition. Facts on File, Inc. p. 105. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
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  13. Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 978-0-517-56588-9, p. 352.
  14. Robinson, Andrew (1989). Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-06946-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  15. Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, ISBN 978-0-7607-0592-6, p. 89.
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  17. Website of Grodno Zoo
  18. Logan, Willy, "Death of a Quiet Birdman," Aviation History, September 2010, p. 21.
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