Editing 1955 (section)

== 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]].