March 1955

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The following events occurred in March 1955:

March 1, 1955 (Tuesday)

March 2, 1955 (Wednesday)

  • The Hong Kong-registered cargo ship Inchkeith strikes an uncharted rock in the Bay of Bengal off Port Meadows, Andaman Islands, and is abandoned as a total loss.[2]
  • Claudette Colvin, a fifteen-year-old African-American girl, becomes the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, when she refuses to give up her seat to a white woman as demanded by the driver. She is carried off the bus backwards while being kicked and handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station.[3] She becomes a plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle (1956) which rules bus segregation to be unconstitutional.
  • Born: Shoko Asahara, Japanese cult leader, in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture (d. 2018)

March 3, 1955 (Thursday)

March 4, 1955 (Friday)

March 5, 1955 (Saturday)

  • US TV station WBBJ-TV signs on the air in Jackson, Tennessee, with WDXI as its initial call-letters, to expanded American commercial television in mostly-rural areas.
  • Elvis Presley makes his television debut on "Louisiana Hayride" carried by KSLA-TV Shreveport (although audio recordings exists, there is no known video footage of this appearance).

March 6, 1955 (Sunday)

March 7, 1955 (Monday)

  • The 7th Emmy Awards ceremony takes place at the "Moulin Rouge Nightclub" in Hollywood, California, USA.
  • The Broadway musical version of Peter Pan, which had opened in 1954 starring Mary Martin, is presented on television for the first time by NBC-TV with its original cast, as an installment of Producers' Showcase. It is also the first time that a stage musical is presented in its entirety on TV almost exactly as it was performed on stage. This program gains the largest viewership of a TV special up to this time, and it becomes one of the first great TV family musical classics.

March 8, 1955 (Tuesday)

March 9, 1955 (Wednesday)

March 10, 1955 (Thursday)

March 11, 1955 (Friday)

  • Died: Sir Alexander Fleming, 73, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

March 12, 1955 (Saturday)

March 13, 1955 (Sunday)

March 14, 1955 (Monday)

  • The Greek fishing vessel Iason capsizes and sinks in the Ionian Sea with the loss of eleven of her fifteen crew. SS Stratheden sends one of her lifeboats to the aid of Iason, but it also capsizes and all eight on board are drowned. Four survivors from Iason are rescued by Stratheden.[8]

March 15, 1955 (Tuesday)

March 16, 1955 (Wednesday)

March 17, 1955 (Thursday)

March 18, 1955 (Friday)

March 19, 1955 (Saturday)

March 20, 1955 (Sunday)

March 21, 1955 (Monday)

March 22, 1955 (Tuesday)

March 23, 1955 (Wednesday)

  • Norwegian ocean liner Venus runs aground at Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom.[24]
  • Dutch coaster Anna Henny is driven ashore at Aberavon, Wales, in a storm. It is refloated after five hours.[25]
  • In Pozzuoli, the last knightly dispute in Italy happens. Gaetano Fiorentino, senator of the People's Monarchist Party, faces in a fencing duel the attorney Attilio Romano, acting in name of his client Carlo Delcroix, war invalid. Both the two contenders are slightly wounded. The dispute was caused by a Fiorentino's press article about Delcroix, judged injurious.[26]
  • Born: Moses Malone, US basketball player, in Petersburg, Virginia (d. 2015)
  • Died: Artur Bernardes, 79, President of Brazil 1922-26

March 24, 1955 (Thursday)

March 25, 1955 (Friday)

March 26, 1955 (Saturday)

  • "March on Brussels", in the course of the Second School War. 100.000 Catholic militants fall on the Belgian capital; they mean to protest against the socialist Leo Collard, Minister of Public Education, who proposed a bill vised to cut the funding for the private schools. The manifestation, unauthorized by the city authorities, is severely repressed, with use of hydrants and charges by the mounted police. Despite the civil war atmosphere, by chance there are no victims.[36][clarification needed]
  • The number three propeller and engine detach from the Pan American World Airways Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-26 Clipper United States, operating as Flight 845/26 with 23 people on board, forcing it to ditch in the Pacific Ocean 35 miles (58 km) off the coast of Oregon and killing four people. The United States Navy attack transport USS Bayfield (APA-33) rescues the 19 survivors about two hours later.
  • Slaughter of Colombaia di Secchia (Casina). Guerrino Costi, Communist militant and former partisan, fires two rifle shots from a window in the tavern where the victory of the Catholic list in the elections for the farmers' mutual funds is celebrated. Afro Rossi, local section DC secretary, and Giovanni Munarini, president of the Casina Azione Cattolica, are killed; two others are wounded.[37]  

March 27, 1955 (Sunday)

March 28, 1955 (Monday)

March 29, 1955 (Tuesday)

  • A general election in Suriname results in victory for the Unity Front, which wins 11 of the 21 seats.[43]
  • Uprising of the National Front in Saigon: the Prime Minister's palace and the police prefecture are attacked with mortars. Eight ministers (included the Minister of Defence Ho Thong Minh) resigns from the Diem cabinet.[41]
  • At the elections for the FIAT internal commissions, success of CISL and outstanding failure of CGIL, that almost halve its votes (from 63.2 to 36.7%). Because the defeat, the social-communist trade union revises its strategy, leaving the most political claims.[44] [clarification needed]
  • SNCF in France sets a new world rail speed record of 331 km/h using 1800/2000V DC electric traction. The track is severely damaged by the passage of the train (see [1], [2], [3], [4]).
  • The British coaster Nigelock runs aground at Foochow, China.[45]
  • Born: Christopher Kennedy Lawford, actor, son of Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy (d. 2018)

March 30, 1955 (Wednesday)

March 31, 1955 (Thursday)

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