In the year 1955...

  • Japan's Liberal and Democratic parties merge to form the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a conservative vote-getting juggernaut which would rule Japan almost continuously for the next five decades, with the exception of 11 months in 1993.
  • Rosa Parks becomes an icon to the African-American civil rights movement when she refuses to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white man.
  • Disneyland opens.
  • The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is commissioned by the Guinness Brewing Company following a debate in a pub over the fastest species of gamebird.
  • The Brooklyn Dodgers win their first and last World Series title four games to three, finally defeating the hated New York Yankees after five unsuccessful tries.

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1954 - 1955 - 1956

20th century



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