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