1955-1957 Timeline & Events

Feb 13 – Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea scrolls
Wednesday, April 6 – First Seder in the evening
April 12 – Salk polio vaccine announced
July 17 - Disneyland theme park opens in Anaheim, Calif
Aug 28 – Black 14-year-old Emmett Till is lynched in Miss
Oct 4 - Brooklyn Dodgers win World Series in 7 games
Oct 5 - “Diary of Anne Frank” play opens on Broadway
Monday, Sept 26 – Yom Kippur
Dec 1 - Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama.
Friday, December 9 – first night of Hanukah

March 12 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 500 for the first time
March 17 - Irène Joliot-Curie, French Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, dies
March 17-20 – First big snowstorm of the year in New York City
Monday, March 26– First Seder in the evening
April 1 – “Diary of Anne Frank” wins Best Play Tony Award
April 9 - Supreme Court decides Slochower v. Bd of Ed case 5-4 for Slochower
April 19 - Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
April 29 – Lag b’Omer
May 2 –The U.S. Methodist Church grants women full ordained clergy status
May 8 - Israel and Austria establish diplomatic relations
July 26 – Egypt leader Gamal Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal
August 25 – Sex researcher Alfred Kinsey dies
Sept 9 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show
Saturday, Sept 15 – Yom Kippur
Oct 5 – “Ten Commandments” movie premiers in New York
Oct 8 – NY Yankee pitcher Don Larsen throws the only perfect game in World Series history against the Brooklyn Dodgers
Nov 11 – Last Hungarian insurgents succumb to the invading Soviet army