Timeline November 1955

Events in November 1955 10

• 1867 – 1955 Cy Young (1867-1955) Died 4 November 1955, aged 88 Cy Young was an American baseball pitcher who won a record 511 games over a 22-year major league career. Major League Baseball's annual award for the best pitcher in each league was named in his honor the year after his death. He died at his farm in Newcomerstown, Ohio.
• 1883 – 1955 Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955) Died 5 November 1955, aged 71 Maurice Utrillo was a French painter best known for his depictions of Montmartre street scenes. Largely self-taught, he became one of the most successful painters of the Montmartre school despite lifelong struggles with alcoholism. He died in Dax, France.
• 1896 – 1955 Robert E. Sherwood (1896-1955) Died 14 November 1955, aged 59 Robert E. Sherwood was an American playwright and screenwriter who won four Pulitzer Prizes and an Academy Award. He wrote speeches for President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. He died in New York City.
• 1955 United Airlines Flight 629 bombing A bomb planted by a passengers son to collect life insurance destroys the airliner over Colorado, killing all 44 on board.
• 1955 Bundeswehr founded West Germanys new armed forces are established with the first 101 volunteers, ten years after the end of the Second World War.
• 1955 Sultan Mohammed V returns to Morocco The exiled sultan returns from Madagascar via France. Morocco became independent in March 1956.
• 1955 Bo Diddley banned from The Ed Sullivan Show Sixteen Tons Plays his own song instead of the one he was told to.
• 1955 Elvis Presley signs with RCA Victor Colonel Tom Parker negotiates the purchase of Elvis's contract from Sun Records by RCA Victor for 35,000 dollars, a record sum at the time.
• 1955 Soviet Union tests RDS-37 The first Soviet two-stage thermonuclear bomb is air-dropped at Semipalatinsk, yielding about 1.6 megatons.
• 1955 ICC bans segregation on interstate transport The Interstate Commerce Commission rules that racial segregation on interstate buses and trains is illegal, days before the Montgomery bus boycott.