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December 31, 1955 (Saturday) General Motors becomes the first American corporation to make a profit of over one billion dollars in one year. Harrison Dillard , a two-time Olympic Champion was named the James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy winner as the United States' Amateur Athlete of 1955.
December 10 – 1955 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a substantially increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by H. V. Evatt. This election comes in the immediate aftermath of the devastating split in the Labor Party, which leads to the formation of the Democratic ...
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President: Rene Coty28 March – SNCFsets a new world rail speed record of 331 km/h using electric traction.5 May – Bonn–Paris conventions come into force, putting an end to the Allied occupation of West Germany.11 June – 1955 Le Mans disaster. Driver Pierre Levegh and 82 spectators killed in a crash during the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mansrace.28 July – The first Interlingua congress in Tours, France, leads to the founding of the Union Mundial pro Interlingua.25 June – Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, designed by Le Corbusier, is dedicated.15 September – Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is published in Paris by Olympia Press.7 July – Tour de Francebegins.30 July – Tour de France ends, won by Louison Bobet.28 January24 February – Alain Prost, motor racing driver4 March – Dominique Pinon, actor9 March – Jean-Luc Arribart, soccer player15 January – Yves Tanguy, surrealist painter (born 1900)23 February – Paul Claudel, poet, dramatist and diplomat(born 1868)22 March – Maurice Schutz, actor (born 1866)19 June – Adrienne Monnier, poet and publisher (born 1892)The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on June 13, 2857. The longest annular eclipse occurred on December 14, 1955, with maximum duration of annularity at 12 minutes and 9 seconds. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node. [4] Series members 17–36 occur between 1901 and 2259. 17.
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December 1: Rosa Parks, with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1955 December 14: Tappan Zee Bridge. December 1 – Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to surrender her seat on a bus to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama. December 5 The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge to become the AFL–CIO.
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Leucippus was a Greek philosopher of the 5th century BCE. He is credited with founding atomism, with his student Democritus. Leucippus divided the world into two entities: atoms, indivisible particles that make up all things, and the void, the nothingness between the atoms.