Editing 1955

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== Events ==
* January 11 - [[Orval Faubus]] is elected Governor of Arkansas.
* February 5 - The [[Branch Davidians]] are founded after breaking away from the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
* May 14 - The Warsaw Pact is established as a military alliance between eight European communist states: the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Soviet Union]], [[Polish United Workers' Party|Poland]], [[Communist Party of Romania|Romania]], [[Party of Labour of Albania|Albania]], [[Hungarian Working People's Party|Hungary]], [[Bulgarian Communist Party|Bulgaria]], [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakia]], and [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany|East Germany]].
* June 11 - The [[People's Temple]] is founded by [[Jim Jones]].
* August 18 - Beginning of the First Sudanese Civil War.
* August 28 - Emmett Till, a 14-year old African-American boy, is abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi and brutally [[Lynching|lynched]] by [[Roy Bryant]] and [[J.W. Milam]].
* September 11 - Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam are acquitted for the lynching of Emmett Till by an all-white jury.
* September 16 to 23 - The ''[[Revolución Libertadora]]'': President [[Juan Peron]] of Argentina is ousted from office and [[exile]]d by a group of military officers, who establish a left-wing military junta and spend the following days purging all Peronist influence from the country.
* September 20 - [[Phạm Văn Đồng]] replaces [[Hồ Chí Minh]] as Prime Minister of North Vietnam, while Hồ continues his rule as President.
* October 26 - The State of Vietnam is reorganized into the Republic of South Vietnam. [[Ngô Đình Diệm]] is named president of the new republic, replacing former Chief of State [[Bảo Đại]].
* November 1 - Beginning of the [[Vietnam War]].
* November 1 - [[Jack Gilbert Graham]] blows up United Airlines Flight 629 by planting a dynamite bomb in the plane's checked luggage, causing the plane to explode over Longmont, Colorado. All 39 passengers and 5 crew are killed.
* November 27 - [[Westboro Baptist Church]] is founded in Topeka, Kansas by [[Fred Phelps]].

== Births ==

=== Villain births ===
* January 10 - [[Rolando Mendoza]]
* January 28 - [[Nicolas Sarkozy]]
* February 14 - [[Darrell Keith Rich]]
* February 24 - [[Woo Bum Kon]]
* March 2 - [[Shoko Asahara]]
* March 21 - [[Jair Bolsonaro]]
* March 28 - [[Sreten Lukić]]
* April 1 - [[Terry Nichols]]
* April 2 - [[Mark O. Barton]]
* May 9 - [[Meles Zanawi]]
* May 10 - [[Mark David Chapman]]
* May 22 - [[Lam Kor-wan]]
* May 29 - [[John Hinckley, Jr.]]
* July 26 - [[Asif Ali Zardari]]
* August 2 - [[John Battaglia]]
* August 7 - [[Diane Downs]]
* August 8 - [[Abdel-Aziz bin Habtour]]
* September 6 - [[Zoran Vuković]]
* September 9 - [[John Kricfalusi]]
* September 12 - [[Clayton Fountain]]
* October 17 - [[Tyrone Mitchell]]
* October 18 - [[Wayne Nance]]
* October 19 - [[Jean Kambanda]]
* October 24 - [[Katherine Knight]]
* November 22 - [[John Russell Houser]]
* December 3 - [[Warren Jeffs]]
* December 23 - [[Charles Lee Thornton]]
* December 26 - [[Dawood Ibrahim]]
* Unknown - [[Michael Stone]]
* Unknown - [[Norma Bell]]
* Unknown - [[Ershad Sikder]]
* Unknown - [[A Wyatt Mann]]

=== Victim births ===
*Janruary 8 - Patricia List
*February 10 - Joel Guy Sr.
*March 6 - Cyprien Ntaryamira
*April 4 - John Price
*April 13 - Amarjeet Johal
*April 21 - Billy Gene Baulch Jr
*May 15 - Brenda Sue Brown
*May 16 - Jane Durrua 
*August 20 - Georgann Hawkins
*September 6 - Sharon Gallegos
*October 12 - Susan Rancourt 
*Unknown - Debra Johnson
*Unknown - Denise Naslund

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* January 11 - [[Rodolfo Graziani]]
* February 3 - [[Vasily Blokhin]]
* June 3 - [[Barbara Graham]]
* September 15 - [[Eduard Strauch]]
* December 5 - [[Jirō Minami]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* August 28 - Emmett Till