February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
Day of death December 11, 1955
The temperature on December 11, 1955 was between -1.2 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 13 » Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
May 5 » The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
June 26 » The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
September 16 » A Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
December 14 » Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations through United Nations Security Council Resolution 109.
December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
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