April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
Day of death March 21, 1955
The temperature on March 21, 1955 was between -2.5 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 1 » The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
April 12 » The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
April 24 » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
June 11 » Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
July 9 » The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.
August 19 » In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
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