The temperature on February 14, 1955 was between -6.9 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged -1 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
June 14 » Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
August 17 » Hurricane Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than 184 people.
October 26 » Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
November 1 » The Vietnam War begins.
November 15 » The first part of Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
Day of death February 15, 1955
The temperature on February 15, 1955 was between -6.2 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -2.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 15 » McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
May 5 » The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
June 7 » Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
October 1 » The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is established.
December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
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