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| 1955 |
| | | A military uprising in Argentina forces Perón to resign and go into exile | |
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| 1955 |
| | | With US backing, South Vietnam declares itself an independent republic | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is performed in New York | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Baptist pastor Martin Luther King leads the Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Edna Everage, created by Australian satirist Barry Humphries, makes her first appearance in a Melbourne revue | |
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| 1955 |
| | | British philologist J.R.R. Tolkien publishes the third and final volume of his epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Ruth Ellis, sentenced to death for the murder of an unfaithful lover, is the last woman to be hanged in Britain | |
|  | Record of Ruth Ellis's execution in 1955
National Archives, Kew
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| 1955 |
| | | Anthony Eden moves Harold Macmillan to a new position, as chancellor of the exchequer | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Sudan between the Muslim north and the Christian south | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Heartbreak Hotel, Presley's first recording for RCA, goes to the top of all three US charts | |
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