1955 Marian Anderson becomes the 1st African American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera.
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1955 Dmitri Shostakovich's "From Jewish Folk Poetry" premieres in Leningrad.

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1955 Elvis Presley makes his 1st TV appearance on a broadcast of radio show "Louisiana Hayride."

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1955 Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances.

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1955 United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene.

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1955 Anthony Eden succeeds Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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1955 Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine President Juan Perón - dictator of Argentina.

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1955 Arthur Millers "View From The Bridge" premieres in New York City.

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1955 American actor and cultural icon James Dean is killed in a car crash aged 24.

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1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.

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1955 The events recorded in the previous 10 tweets are historically accurate. Many reading them were not born when they occurred. Yet @Douglas4Moray and his tories think we should listen to a party NOT voted for by Scotland since 1955, since these events in history?
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