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| 1955 |
| | | Thomas Mann publishes a longer but still incomplete version of his novel Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Nasser alarms the west by buying eastern-bloc arms through Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Austria achieves a much delayed return to nationhood after the Soviet Union finally agrees to withdraw from the country | |
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| 1955 |
| | | The first Disneyland opens in California, an event watched on television by 90 million Americans | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Konrad Adenauer negotiates the release of the last 10,000 German prisoners of war held in the USSR | |
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| 1955 |
| | | James Dean is type-cast as the young lead in Rebel without a Cause | |
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| 1955 |
| | | English poet Philip Larkin finds his distinctive voice in his collection The Less Deceived | |
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| 1955 |
| | | British dancer Joan Benesh and her husband Rudolf develop the Benesh system of dance notation | |
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| c. 1955 |
| | | Archaeologists at Olympia excavate the workshop of the Greek classical sculptor Phidias | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Indian director Satyajit Ray makes his first film, Pather Panchali | |
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