About the day » Monday January 24, 1955Calender converter

• Rudi LIESSENS, Haasdonk († 1960)
• Michiel Antonus Ronken, Venray, Limburg, Nederland († 1955)
• Leo Matchlin 'Matchie' Ebanks, West Bay, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands († 2001)
• Cornelia Judy Mary (Connie) Froklage, Chesley Ont Canada († 2017)
• Kind Eggenhuizen, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1955)
• Maria Henrica Petronella van der Heijden, Eersel († 1998)
• Arthur Delroy Moore († 2010)
• Betty Lou Melbaline Levy, Bodden Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands († 1993)
• Theodora Wilhelmina Adriana van Wijk, Houten, Utrecht, Nederland († 1956)
• Cheryl Ann Saffin, Jefferson, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2009)

• Barbara Gijsberta Brunolt (75), Den Haag
• Augusta Cordelia Moomey (75), Grand Rapids, Kent Co, Michigan
• Alida Goor (69), Rotterdam
• Anna Hendrika Dalhuisen (Dalhuizen) (78), Nijbroek, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Alexander de Vries (69), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antony Visschedijk (81), Hengelo
• Alexander de Vries (69), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Adriana Johanna de Jooden (86), Schiedam
• Arnoldus Stoop (83), 's-Gravenhage, Nederland
• Adriana VERMEULEN (2), Krimpen aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1953 » Moon Jae-in, 19th President of South Korea
• 1953 » Yuri Bashmet, Russian violinist, viola player, and conductor
• 1954 » Jo Gartner, Austrian race car driver († 1986)
• 1955 » Alan Sokal, American physicist and author
• 1955 » Jim Montgomery, American swimmer
• 1955 » Lynda Weinman, American businesswoman and author
• 1956 » Agus Martowardojo, governor of Bank Indonesia
• 1957 » Ade Edmondson, English comedian and musician
• 1957 » Mark Eaton, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1958 » Kim Eui-kon, Korean wrestler

• 1939 » Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician, created Muesli (b. 1867)
• 1943 » John Burns, English trade union leader and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1858)
• 1960 » Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (b. 1884)
• 1962 » Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (b. 1901)
• 1962 » André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Stanley Lord, English naval captain (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Winston Churchill, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1966 » Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1970 » Caresse Crosby, American fashion designer and publisher, co-founded the Black Sun Press (b. 1891)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
• January 2 » Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered.
• July 17 » Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
• July 27 » El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 people onboard are killed.
• September 25 » The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
• October 26 » Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
• November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.

The temperature on January 24, 1955 was between -4.2 °C and -1.2 °C and averaged -2.4 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.