However, due to a misprint, the number Sears printed redirected to CORAD (now NORAD)’s top-secret emergency line. Retail giant Sears published a phone number that kids could use to “call Santa”. The first Moonwalk ever recorded that we could find was performed by tap dancer Bill Bailey in 1955… Goddard, director of the Department of Parks and Forests in Pennsylvania, set the goal of having a state park within 25 miles of every citizen. TV remote ‘clicker’ control became public. The murderers were acquitted in a trial by an all-white jury. The ban is still in place to this day.Įmmett Till, a 14-year-old black teenager that was killed for allegedly flirting with a white female.

Switzerland banned nearly all forms of motor-racing after the tragic 1955 Le Mans disaster, which took place in France, where fragments of a crashed car flew in the stands, injuring 180 and killing 84 spectators, the most deadly accident in motorsports history. John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Lee Van Cleef, Agnes Moorehead, and Dick Powell all died of cancer, probably from filming The Conquerer near a Nevada nuclear testing site in 1955. They purposely asked her a boxing question, figuring a girl wouldn’t get the answer. Joyce Brothers was disliked by the producers of The 64,000 Question, and her opponent was coached. This event of peaceful protest was a catalyst for the civil rights movement in the United States.ĭr. Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955. Mouseketeers: M-O-U-S-E!” – Mickey Mouse Club “Now it’s time to say good-bye to all our company, / M-I-C… Martine Carol, Dorothy Dandridge, Doris Day, Diana Dors, Anita Ekberg, Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Julie Newmar, Kim Novak, Bettie Page, Elizabeth Taylor, Mamie Van Doren Mary, Deborah, Linda, Debra, Susan, Michael, David, James, Robert, John The Funny Comedy Duo were: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.Price of a German Shepard puppy, AKC registered in 1955: $50.00.AFL and CIO become one organization, the AFL-CIO.Notable books include: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and The Ginger Man by J.The Most Famous Person in America was probably James Dean.

The Movies to Watch include To Catch A Thief, Mister Roberts, East of Eden, Galapagos, Lady and the Tramp, Rebel without a Cause, Marty, Oklahoma! and Blackboard Jungle.Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof won the Pulitzer Prize.Steve Allen, #41 Mitch Miller, #50 Jackie Gleason, #52. Influential Song: Autumn Leaves by… #1 Roger Williams, #35.The Top Song was Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White by Perez Prado.

The Other World Changing Event: In Montgomery, Alabama, a bus boycott began after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person.

Jonas Salk started inoculating children against polio.

Scuffy the Tugboat by Gertrude Crampton