This year will be the 55th time it's happened

and it's gonna happen on FRIDAY!!!

SHAKE YO BOOTY, IT'S MY B-DAY!!!

So you're celebrating your birth week?

HAPPY BIRTH WEEK !!!!

Congrats!!

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Happy 55th!

Happy Birthday!

Mine's next Tuesday!

OK

chocolate1 said:

Happy Birthday!

Mine's next Tuesday!

Happy 55th Birthday to you too! !!!

Happy Birthday.

LOL

Happy Birthday

1955 consumerism takes off in a big way with the sale of some 7.9 million cars in the US with 7 out of 10 families now owning a motor car, and new laws were put in place requiring seat belts to be installed on all new cars. The average wages were now $3,851 per year, and the minimum wage was raised to $1.00 per hour. The first McDonalds was erected in 1955 and more fast foods and TV dinners are appearing including fish fingers. The first cans of Coca-Cola are sold up till then it had only been sold in bottles. Rock and Roll music continues to grow in popularity with more idols including Elvis Presley , Bill Haley and the Comets, Chuck Berry and The Platters, and young men's fashion matches the times with pink shirts and charcoal grey suits.

What Events Happened in 1955

Iran

• US military intervention in Iran

U.S.

• Hurricane Diane hits the northeast United States, killing 200 and causing over $1 billion in damage

UK

• Great Britain declares State of Emergency due to National Rail Strike

UK

• The first Commercial TV Station with advertisements starts in London, England

UK

• British Newspapers Not Printed for 1 month due to strike in Fleet Street By Maintenance Workers

UK

• Clement Attlee who oversaw the creation of the British Welfare System resigns as leader of the Labour Party

UK

• Princess Margaret announces she will not marry divorced Group Captain Peter Townsend.

Canada

• The St. Lawrence Seaway opens to Ocean Vessels from Montreal to US ports on the Great Lakes

Russia

• The Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies sign the Warsaw Pact giving integration of military, economic and cultural policy between the eight Communist nations.

UK

• Great Britain effected by worst winter storms causing roads, rail and problems with food and medical supplies

U.S.

• Disneyland opens in California on July 17th

U.S.

• 'In God We Trust' is added to all US paper currency

U.S.

• United Airlines Flight 629 is blown up shortly after takeoff over Longmont, Colorado

UK

• Ruth Ellis the last woman in England to be executed is hung at Holloway Prison

France

• 77 Die in a disaster at 24hr Le Mans Race

World

• The New Synthetic Material Polyurethane used in more and more everyday goods

U.S.

• Emmett Till, a black fourteen year old teenager is murdered for not showing respect to a white woman in Money, Miss.

Germany

• West Germany Joins NATO

Argentina

• The Military seizes control in Argentina forcing Juan Peron to flee

U.S.

• African American Rosa Parks is arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery Alabama
  
  

Technology 1955

• First pocket transistor radios available
  
  
• Fish Fingers are marketed by Bird's Eye
  
  
• The first Atomically generated power is used in the US
  
  

Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Atomic Clock England
Hovercraft England by Christopher Cockerell

Lego Gotfried Kirk Christiansen

Velcro Switzerland by George De Mestral

Popular Culture 1955

• Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's fast food restaurant chain.
• First riot at an Elvis Presley concert takes place in Jacksonville, FL
• "The $64,000 Question" the popular US television game show starts
• James Dean’s stars in the movie East of Eden
• James Dean killed in car accident near Cholame, California
• First Guinness Book of World Records Published
• "The Mickey Mouse Club" debuts on ABC

Popular Films

• Oklahoma
• The Quatermass Xperiment
• Rebel without a Cause
• To Catch A Thief
• The Quatermass Xperiment
• The seven year itch

Popular Singers

• Elvis Presley
• Bill Haley and the Comets " Rock Around The Clock"
• Chuck Berry
• Fats Domino.
• The Platters

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Born This Year

Mata Amritanandamayi News And Events From September 27th

Whoopi Goldberg November 13th

Olga Korbut News And Events From May 16th

Steve Jobs February 24th

KingBAD

Major World Political Leaders

Australia Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies

Brazil President Café Filho Till 9 November
Brazil President Carlos Luz From 9 November
Brazil President Carlos Luz Till 11 November
Brazil President Nereu Ramos From 11 November

Canada Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent

China Chairman of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong

France President René Coty

Germany Chancellor Konrad Adenauer

India Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru

Italy Prime Minister Mario Scelba Till 2 July
Italy Prime Minister Antonio Segni From 6 July

Japan Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama

Mexico President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines

Russia / Soviet Union
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev

South Africa Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom

United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower

United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill Till 7 April
United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden From 7 April

Political Elections

British General Election 1955 Anthony Eden ( Conservative )defeats Clement Attlee ( Labour ) and Clement Davies ( Liberal )


The Information above is taken from our new page that gives world leaders from 1920 to current

[Edited 8/16/10 18:31pm]

oh yeah...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

paintedlady said:

chocolate1 said:

Happy Birthday!

Mine's next Tuesday!

Happy 55th Birthday to you too! !!!

Girl... don't go adding on years!

My 43rd is next week!

chocolate1 said:

paintedlady said:

Happy 55th Birthday to you too! !!!

Girl... don't go adding on years!

My 43rd is next week!

i really enjoyed the history lesson for '55

so many things happened because of me

i just never took the time to examine them all:lol:

HAPPY B-DAY CHOCOLATE!!!

Nothinbutjoy said:

So you're celebrating your birth week?

HAPPY BIRTH WEEK !!!!

Oh Joy,

you know i gotta give these folks a week to

check my history and decide to check in...

KingBAD said:

Nothinbutjoy said:

So you're celebrating your birth week?

HAPPY BIRTH WEEK !!!!

Oh Joy,

you know i gotta give these folks a week to

check my history and decide to check in...

I just thought it was because you were exceptional!

KingBAD said:

This year will be the 55th time it's happened

and it's gonna happen on FRIDAY!!!

SHAKE YO BOOTY, IT'S MY B-DAY!!!

congratulations!

Nothinbutjoy said:

KingBAD said:

Oh Joy,

you know i gotta give these folks a week to

check my history and decide to check in...

I just thought it was because you were exceptional!

that too!!!

XxAxX said:

KingBAD said:

This year will be the 55th time it's happened

and it's gonna happen on FRIDAY!!!

SHAKE YO BOOTY, IT'S MY B-DAY!!!

congratulations!

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UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAH!!!

Really though...

55 y/o and still kickin

i'm lovin every minit of it!!!

I don't know you but I do wish you a Happy Birthday.

Happry Birthday to uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Happy Birthday to uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Happy Birthday dear King Badddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

Happy Birthday to uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

shine and a brite bokay of exotic 's to you !!

Hope your day went great

Cinnie said:

I feel like it is somethin to be 55 and born in '55. We gotta have a name for that.

IRONY!!!