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White House Conf adopts rept prepared by Supts King, Chamberlin on ps dist orgn; efficiency, econ stressed; stronger US Office of Educ urged
renews USSR pre-Geneva charges against US, Assembly com
W Berlin City Council denounces any unilateral USSR move to end 4-power status; urges Western Big 3 to resist; Western Ambs conf, Bonn; Suhr asks US to seek USSR clarification; E Berlin Mayor Ebert and press insist city is part of E Ger
Amb Lodge, Chmn Hall concede farm belt dissatisfaction with program plagues Repub leadership
Private bus cos expected to ask fare rise as result of 2-yr agreement with TWU granting pay rise; Comr Seitel holds rise inevitable; warns pacts must be signed 1st, pub hearings held
1955Veikko Aaltonen, Finnish actor, director, and screenwriter[†]
Veikko Aaltonen is a Finnish director, editor, sound editor, production manager and film and television writer and actor.
1955Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress (died 2021)[†]
Verónica Forqué Vázquez-Vigo was a Spanish stage, film and television actress. She was a four-time Goya Award winner, the most award-winning actress alongside Carmen Maura. She had a knack for characters "between ridiculous and tender, stunned and vehement".
1955Udit Narayan, Indian playback singer[†]
Udit Narayan Jha is an Nepali and Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured mainly in Hindi films. He has also sung in various other languages including Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali, Sindhi, Odia, Bhojpuri, Nepali, Malayalam, Assamese, Bagheli and Maithili. He has won four National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards with twenty nominations among many others. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2009 and the Padma Bhushan in 2016 for his contribution towards arts and culture. As many as 21 of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time".
1955Pat Spillane, Irish footballer and sportscaster[†]
Patrick Gerard Spillane, better known as Pat Spillane, is an Irish former Gaelic football pundit and player. His league and championship career at senior level with the Kerry county team spanned seventeen years from 1974 to 1991. Spillane is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the game.
1955Karen Tumulty, American journalist[†]
Karen Emily Tumulty is a political columnist for The Washington Post. Tumulty served in several capacities with Time magazine's Washington, D.C. bureau from October 1994 to April 2010, including as Congressional correspondent, national political correspondent and White House correspondent.
1955American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.[†]
The civil rights movement was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which most commonly affected African Americans. The movement had origins in the Reconstruction era in the late 19th century, and modern roots in the 1940s. After years of nonviolent protests and civil disobedience campaigns, the civil rights movement achieved many of its legislative goals in the 1960s, during which it secured new protections in federal law for the civil rights of all Americans.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]