![]() ![]() May 5 – West Germany becomes a sovereign country, recognized by Western countries such as France, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.April 18– 24 – The Asian-African Conference is held in Bandung, Indonesia.April 17 – Imre Nagy, the communist Premier of Hungary, is ousted for being too moderate.April 16 – The Burma-Japan Peace Treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954, comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries.April 15 – The first franchised McDonald's restaurant is opened by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.April 14 – A 7.1 earthquake shakes the Chinese city of Kangding leaving 70 dead.April 14 – The Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup in North American ice hockey for the 7th time in franchise history, but will not win again until 1997.April 12 – The Salk polio vaccine, having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the Food and Drug Administration.Taekwondo, a form of Korean martial arts, is officially recognized in South Korea.The Taiwanese Kuomintang put a bomb on the airplane Kashmir Princess, killing 16 but failing to assassinate the People's Republic of China leader, Zhou Enlai.April 10 – In the American National Basketball Association championship, the Syracuse Nationals defeat the Fort Wayne Pistons 92–91 in Game 7, to win the title.April 6 – Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.Daley defeats Robert Merrian to become Mayor of Chicago, by a vote of 708,222 to 581,555. Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, due to ill-health, at the age of 80.April 1 – EOKA starts a resistance campaign against British rule in the Crown colony of Cyprus.Main article: April 1955 April 15: McDonald's Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to the song. March 20 – The movie adaptation of Evan Hunter's novel Blackboard Jungle premieres in the United States, featuring the famous single " Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets.March 19 – KXTV signs on the air in Sacramento, California, as the 100th commercial television station in the United States. ![]() March 17 – Richard Riot in Montreal: 6,000 people protest the suspension of French Canadian ice hockey star Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens by the National Hockey League, following a violent incident during a match.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. 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. March 7 – 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.Elvis Presley makes his television debut on "Louisiana Hayride", carried by KSLA-TV Shreveport in the United States.WBBJ-TV signs on the air in Jackson, Tennessee, with WDXI as its initial call-letters, to expand American commercial television in mostly rural areas.Gayle (1956), which rules bus segregation to be unconstitutional. She is carried off the bus backwards, while being kicked, handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station. ![]()
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