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November 27, 1955

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Historical Context for November 27, 1955

In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]

Notable Births

1955Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player[†]

Joseph Pierre Mondou is a former Canadian ice hockey forward.

Bill Nye

1955Bill Nye, American engineer, educator, and television host[†]

William Sanford Nye is an American science communicator, television presenter, and former mechanical engineer. He is best known as the host of the science education television show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–1999) and as a science educator in pop culture. Born in Washington, D.C., Nye began his career as a mechanical engineer for Boeing in Seattle, where he invented a hydraulic resonance suppressor tube used on 747 airplanes. In 1986, he left Boeing to pursue comedy, writing and performing for the local sketch television show Almost Live!, where he regularly conducted wacky scientific experiments.

Notable Deaths

Arthur Honegger

1955Arthur Honegger, French-Swiss composer and academic (born 1892)[†]

Arthur Honegger was a Swiss-French composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. Honegger was a member of Les Six. For Halbreich, Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher is "more even than Le Roi David or Pacific 231, his most universally popular work".

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