March 1955

March 1, 1955 (Tuesday)

March 2, 1955 (Wednesday)

  • The Hong Kong-registered cargo ship Inchkeith strikes an uncharted rock in the Bay of Bengal off Port Meadows, Andaman Islands, and is abandoned as a total loss.[1]
  • Claudette Colvin, a fifteen-year-old African-American girl, becomes the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, when she refuses to give up her seat to a white woman as demanded by the driver. She is carried off the bus backwards while being kicked and handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station.[2] She becomes a plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle (1956) which rules bus segregation to be unconstitutional.

March 3, 1955 (Thursday)

March 5, 1955 (Saturday)

  • US TV station WBBJ-TV signs on the air in Jackson, Tennessee, with WDXI as its initial call-letters, to expanded American commercial television in mostly-rural areas.
  • Elvis Presley makes his television debut on "Louisiana Hayride" carried by KSLA-TV Shreveport (although audio recordings exists, there is no known video footage of this appearance).

March 6, 1955 (Sunday)

March 7, 1955 (Monday)

  • The 7th Emmy Awards ceremony takes place at the "Moulin Rouge Nightclub" in Hollywood, California, USA.
  • The Broadway musical version of Peter Pan, which had opened in 1954 starring Mary Martin, is presented on television for the first time by NBC-TV with its original cast, as an installment of Producers' Showcase. It is also the first time that a stage musical is presented in its entirety on TV almost exactly as it was performed on stage. This program gains the largest viewership of a TV special up to this time, and it becomes one of the first great TV family musical classics.

March 8, 1955 (Tuesday)

March 9, 1955 (Wednesday)

March 10, 1955 (Thursday)

March 11, 1955 (Friday)

  • Died: Sir Alexander Fleming, 73, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

March 12, 1955 (Saturday)

March 13, 1955 (Sunday)

March 14, 1955 (Monday)

  • The Greek fishing vessel Iason capsizes and sinks in the Ionian Sea with the loss of eleven of her fifteen crew. SS Stratheden sends one of her lifeboat to the aid of Iason, but it also capsizes and all eight on board are drowned. Four survivors from Iason are rescued by Stratheden.[6]

March 15, 1955 (Tuesday)

March 16, 1955 (Wednesday)

March 17, 1955 (Thursday)

March 19, 1955 (Saturday)

March 20, 1955 (Sunday)

March 21, 1955 (Monday)

March 22, 1955 (Tuesday)

March 23, 1955 (Wednesday)

March 24, 1955 (Thursday)

March 25, 1955 (Friday)

March 26, 1955 (Saturday)

March 28, 1955 (Monday)

March 29, 1955 (Tuesday)

  • A general election in Suriname results in victory for the Unity Front, which wins 11 of the 21 seats.[23]
  • SNCF in France sets a new world rail speed record of 331 km/h using 1800/2000V dc electric traction. The track is severely damaged by the passage of the train (see , , , ).
  • The British coaster Nigelock runs aground at Foochow, China.[24]

March 30, 1955 (Wednesday)

  • Died: Ylla, 43, Hungarian photographer (jeep accident)
  • Born: Paul Peters, production designer

March 31, 1955 (Thursday)

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  8. Chronology: Exhibition Catalogue, Nicolas de Staël, paintings 1950–1955, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NYC. 1997 p.99
  9. British parliamentary by-elections: Wrexham 1955
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  18. "Spanish Ship Sunk In Collision". The Times (53199). London. 25 March 1955. col C, p. 5.
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  20. Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 282.
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