Events Poll for 1955, the year my uncle Jimmie was born.
- Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. – 0 votes
- The Salk polio vaccine is introduced. – 6 votes
- Ray Kroc starts the McDonald’s fast food restaurant chain. – 4 votes
- Lady and the Tramp debuts in theatres – 1 vote
- Albert Einstein dies from ruptured aortic aneurysm – 4 votes
- Disneyland opens, in Anaheim, California. – 2 votes
- Hurricane Diane hits the northeast United States, killing 200 and causing over $1 billion in damage.
- Murder of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. -1 vote
- Gunsmoke debuts on CBS. – 3 votes
- James Dean dies in car wreck. – 3 votes
- Montgomery, Alabama seamstress, Rosa Parks, refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested. -4 votes
- 70 mm film is introduced with Oklahoma!. – 0 votes
And a new one for the music of that year….
- Sincerely by McGuire Sisters
- Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford – 2 votes
- Ballad of Davy Crockett by Bill Hayes
- Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and His Comets – 3 votes
- Yellow Rose of Texas by Mitch Miller