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1955 Formula One season

1955 Formula One season: sixth FIA World Championship, seven races, won by Juan Manuel Fangio (Mercedes-Benz, 40 points) over Stirling Moss; marked by the Le Mans disaster and cancelled Grands Prix.

1955 in film: the year's cinema, marked by the 27th Academy Awards honoring 1954 films, On the Waterfront's dominance, Ray's Pather Panchali debut, Ealing's sale to the BBC, and declining UK cinema attendance amid television competition.

1955 Indonesian general election

The 1955 Indonesian general election (Pemilu 1955) was Indonesia's first national election, choosing the House of Representatives and Constituent Assembly in two stages with no party winning a majority.

1955 Lanao earthquake

The 1955 Lanao earthquake was a magnitude 7-plus earthquake that struck the Lake Lanao area of Mindanao, Philippines, on April 1, 1955, killing roughly 400 people and leaving 12,000 homeless.

1955 Le Mans disaster

The 1955 Le Mans disaster: on 11 June 1955 at Circuit de la Sarthe, Pierre Levegh's Mercedes 300 SLR crashed into spectators, killing at least 82, motorsport's deadliest accident, prompting national racing bans and safety reform.

1955 United Kingdom general election

UK general election held 26 May 1955 under Anthony Eden, weeks after Churchill's resignation. Conservatives won 324 of 630 seats (49.7% vote, their post-1918 peak) against Labour's 277 under Attlee; the Swingometer debuted on BBC coverage.

1955–56 European Cup

1955–56 European Cup, first European Champion Clubs' Cup: 16 invited clubs, knockout two legs; won by Real Madrid 4–3 over Reims at Parc des Princes, 13 June 1956; founded by L'Équipe's Gabriel Hanot, organized by UEFA from 21 June 1955.

1956

The year 1956: Khrushchev's secret speech denouncing Stalin at the Twentieth Party Congress, the Hungarian Revolution, the Suez Crisis, Sudanese and Moroccan independence, and Eisenhower's re-election.

1956 Bastak earthquake

The 1956 Bastak earthquake was a destructive shock that struck the Bastak region of southern Iran on 31 October 1956, killing about 410 people and ruining most villages in the Gowdeh canton.

1956 Chinese middle school riots

The 1956 Chinese middle school riots were Singapore's largest 1950s student confrontation: sit-ins at Chung Cheng and Chinese High Schools escalated into island-wide rioting that left 13 dead.

1956 Georgian demonstrations

The 1956 Georgian demonstrations were mass protests in the Georgian SSR in March 1956, triggered by Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin and crushed by Soviet troops on 9–10 March.

1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision

The 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision, on June 30, 1956, killed all 128 aboard a TWA and a United airliner over Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.

1956 in spaceflight

1956 in spaceflight was a year of high-altitude records and preparation: the Bell X-2 flew above 100,000 feet and past Mach 3, while the Jupiter-C reached 680 miles up.

1956 Summer Olympics

The 1956 Summer Olympics (Games of the XVI Olympiad), held in Melbourne, Australia, were the first Southern Hemisphere Games, with equestrian events moved to Stockholm over quarantine laws, amid first Olympic boycotts and the blood-in-the-water water polo match.

1956 United States presidential election

The 1956 U.S. presidential election: Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Democrat Adlai Stevenson in a rematch, winning 457 electoral votes and 57.4% of the popular vote; the first campaign built heavily on TV commercials.

1957

1957 (MCMLVII): the year the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, opening the Space Age; also the Rome Treaty founding the EEC, the Little Rock Nine crisis, Ghana's independence, and the first Civil Rights Act since Reconstruction.

1957 Algerian general strike

The 1957 Algerian general strike, known in French as the grève des huit jours, was an eight-day strike called by the FLN during the Algerian War from 28 January to 4 February 1957.

1957 Chevrolet

The 1957 Chevrolet is the model-year 1957 full-size Chevrolet range sold by General Motors in One-Fifty, Two-Ten, and Bel Air series, remembered for its tailfins, 283 V8, and first-year fuel injection.

1957 Farsinaj earthquake

The 1957 Farsinaj earthquake struck western Iran near the Zagros mountains on 13 December 1957, killing about 2,000 people with severe shaking over a wide area.

1957 Gabonese Territorial Assembly election

The 1957 Gabonese Territorial Assembly election, held 31 March 1957 in French Gabon, saw the Bloc Démocratique Gabonais win a majority and install Léon Mba as head of government.

1957 Haitian general election

The 1957 Haitian general election, held on 22 September 1957, elected François Duvalier president over Louis Déjoie, beginning the Duvalier dictatorship that lasted until 1971.

1957 Hazanderan earthquake

The 1957 Hazanderan earthquake, also known as the Sangchal earthquake, was a magnitude 7.1 quake that struck the High Alborz mountains of northern Iran on 2 July 1957.

1957 in spaceflight

1957 in spaceflight was the first year of the Space Age, with three launch attempts: Soviet Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2 succeeded, and the US Vanguard TV-3 failed.

1957 Senegalese Territorial Assembly election

Territorial Assembly election in Senegal held 31 March 1957 under the loi-cadre; the Bloc démocratique sénégalais won 41 of 50 seats in the first universal-suffrage territorial vote, and Mamadou Dia led the resulting government.

1957 Thai coup d'état

The 1957 Thai coup d'état (รัฐประหาร พ.ศ. 2500) was a bloodless coup on 16 September 1957 in which Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat overthrew Prime Minister Plaek Phibulsonggram.

1958

1958: the year of NASA's founding (Act signed July 29, operations October 1), the first American satellite, Khrushchev's premiership, de Gaulle's Fifth Republic, the United Arab Republic, and the start of the Keeling Curve.

1958 Canadian federal election

The 1958 Canadian federal election (31 March 1958) gave John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservatives 208 of 265 Commons seats and 53.7% of the vote, including 50 of 75 Quebec seats; by percentage of seats it remains Canada's largest federal victory.

1958 FIFA World Cup

1958 FIFA World Cup, sixth edition, held in Sweden 8–29 June 1958. Brazil won its first title, beating hosts Sweden 5–2; Just Fontaine scored a record 13 goals and 17-year-old Pelé debuted.

1958 FIFA World Cup qualification

1958 FIFA World Cup qualification: 55 teams competed for 16 places at Sweden 1958, the first World Cup with confederation-based qualifying groups; Israel qualified by default and was made to beat Wales in a playoff.