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| | Timeline 1955 |
 | | 1955 Mar 28, John Marshall Harlan was sworn in to the U.S. Supreme Court. | | | 1955 Feb 14, A Jewish couple lost their fight to adopt Catholic twins as the U.S. Supreme Court refused to rule on state law. | | | 1955 The USSR lifted a ban on abortion that had been imposed by Stalin in 1936. |
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http://timelines.ws/20thcent/1955.HTML
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| | The Connecticut Floods of 1955 |
| | 4 In 1955 Dempsey was Mayor of Putnam and Executive Aid to Governor Abraham Ribicoff. | | | He was also an Executive Aid to Governor Abraham Ribicoff. | | | Putnam, August 19, 1955, The Louis S. Edman Collection |
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http://www.cslib.org/flood1955.htm
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| | LEGENDARY SURFERS: 1955 |
| | A notable time in his recollections was November 1955: | | | The Civil Rights Movement in the United States began in 1955 when black people in Montgomery, Alabama, boycotted segregated city bus lines. | | | He had pushed his hat back on his head and was laughing as he watched us drive away." |
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http://www.legendarysurfers.com/surf/legends/ls22.shtml
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| | The Sukarno years: 1950 to 1965 |
| | It remained seated until the 1955 elections, during the rise and fall of many parliamentary governments. | | | President Sukarno casts his vote in the 1955 elections. | | | December Elections are held for the "Konstituante" assembly: an assembly to draw up a new constitution. |
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http://www.gimonca.com/sejarah/sejarah09.shtml
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| | Things That Happened In 1955 |
| | November 7, 1955 Supreme Court of Baltimore banned segregation in public recreational areas | | | May 31, 1955 Supreme Court ordered school integration "with all deliberate speed" | | | January 19, 1955 President Eisenhower was the first president to have a news conference for TV February 12, 1955 President Eisenhower sent the first US advisors to South Vietnam |
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http://www.maple-valley.k12.ia.us/HTMLpages/MVSD/alumni/c1955a/year.html
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| | Mayor Richard J. Daley |
| | His long tenure as Mayor began in 1955 and ended with his death in 1976. | | | As a Mayor, he was known for his heavy handed ways and for being unacceptably tolerant of corruption, despite his own personal honesty. | | | Daley is best remembered as being the last "Big Boss" of Chicago. |
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http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/Daley2.html
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| | The Sporting News: Baseball History of the World Series |
| | Surely 1955 would be the year, Brooklyn partisans reasoned. | | | Of the Dodgers' seven World Series setbacks, the last five had come at the hands of the Yanks. | | | In Game 2, 35-year-old lefthander Tommy Byrne, a Yankee standout of yesteryear who had made it back to New York after winning 20 games in the minor leagues in 1954, stopped the Dodgers on five hits and posted a 4-2 triumph. |
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http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/worldseries/1955.html
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| | TIME 100: Rosa Parks |
| | When she remained seated, that simple decision eventually led to the disintegration of institutionalized segregation in the South, ushering in a new era of the civil rights movement. | | | But this was Montgomery, Ala., in 1955, and as the bus became crowded, the woman, a black woman, was ordered to give up her seat to a white passenger. | | | One December evening, a woman left work and boarded a bus for home. |
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http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html
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| | The Chess Label Part II (1953-1955) |
| | Buddy Griffin and Claudia Swann would record on November 8; because he was based on the West Coast, Lowell Fulson's first session was delayed until January 1955. | | | Most were still being done in Chicago at old reliable Universal Recording, but we know of at least two sessions (the very first on the list, by Lowell Fulson, and its follow-on, in August) that were recorded specially for Chess in Los Angeles. | | | From late 1950 through early 1953, Lenoir had recorded for JOB (though his first session for the label, back in December 1950, was promptly sold outright to Chess). |
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http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/chess2.html
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| | Princeton Class of 1955 |
| | In 2004, Colby-Sawyer College honored Peter by naming a recently built dormitory, Danforth Hall. | | | Lee Neuwirth received The President’s Award to Unsung Heroes for his tireless behind-the-scenes work for Princeton and the Class of 1955. | | | Welcome to The Princeton Class of 1955 website. |
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http://www.princeton55.org
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| | General Assembly Resolutions 8th Session |
| | REPORT OF THE TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL COVERING THE PERIOD FROM 17 JULY 1954 TO 3 November 1955 | | | UNITED NATIONS KOREAN RECONSTRUCTION AGENCY: FINANCIAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 1955, AND REPORT OF THE BOARD OF AUDITORS | | | UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST: ACCOUNTS FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 1955, AND REPORT OF THE BOARD OF AUDITOR |
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http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/10/ares10.htm
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| | Shawnee High School Class of 1955 - Shawnee, Oklahoma |
| | At Junior Olympics time we kept our loyalty to the old schools - Franklin, Irving, Harrison, Horace Mann, Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Washington and Wilson. | | | For Letting Us Use His P.O. Box for the last 25 years! | | | ~ Send an E-Mail To A 1955 Classmate ~ |
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http://www.geocities.com/classof55reunion
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| | Pop History of the Fifties - 1955 |
| | Polio shots are given in schools for the first time. | | | Learn how to Search the Internet more effectively. | | | Note: Music History and Song Lists for 1955 are located HERE |
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http://www.fiftiesweb.com/pop/1955.htm
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| | World Wide Hall of Fame |
| | The 1955 vote saw the committee have its first election without electing a single member. | | | Twenty ballots were cast, and the election hinged on the last ballot. |
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http://www.chidlovski.com/wwhhof/1955.htm
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| | Marty (1955) |
| | Marty (1955) is the poignant, simple character study of a lonely, unmarried, lovelorn middle-aged, 34 year old son who works as a Bronx butcher and still lives with his love-smothering mother. |
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http://www.filmsite.org/mart.html
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| | Major League Baseball : History : World Series History |
| | 1955 - Brooklyn Dodgers (4) vs. New York Yankees (3) | | | A record 17 home runs were hit in the first six games. | | | Notes: Brooklyn won its first World Series in eight tries. |
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http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws_recaps.jsp?feature=1955
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| | 1955 |
| | 1955 brought his first big hit, "Blueberry Hill". | | | They purchased his contract and in 1955, in New Orleans at Cosmo studios he recorded "Tutti-Fruitti". | | | He accidently shot himself and died the next day. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/biz3/nostalgia/1955.html
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| | 1897 UM-OSU 1955 Game Coverage |
| | Hayes-coached teams have now won two in a row from Michigan and his personal count against the Varsity is now three wins and two losses. | | | Ohio's decisive victory of 1955 put an end to all of those Buckeye frustrations. | | | Michigan's Varsity of 1955 carried two shining goals into its climactic battle of November 19 with Ohio State -- an undisputed Conference championship and a westward journey to the Rose Bowl. |
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http://www.umich.edu/~bhl/bhl/exhibits/umosu/rivalrep/1955osu.htm
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| | 1955 Corvette |
| | The 1955 Model year has the least amount of documentation available. | | | The Thunderbird is a major part of GM's decision to continue production of the Corvette after the disappointing 1954 sales year. | | | Although sales climbed to 3640 units in 1954, 10,000 units were expected, and sales fell off dramatically in 1955 to just 700 in 1955 setting off rumors that Corvette might be a short-lived automotive experiment. |
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http://www.idavette.net/facts/55.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Mister Roberts: DVD: Henry Fonda,James Cagney,William Powell,Jack Lemmon,Betsy Palmer,Ward Bond,Philip ... |
| | Henry Fonda, in perhaps his most beloved and certainly one of his finest performances, was not even nominated. | | | Marty (1955) starring Ernest Borgnine, a kind of politically correct (for its time) love story about ordinary folk, won the Academy's honor for best picture in 1956, the year Mister Roberts was nominated. | | | William Powell, in his last film, plays the ship's wise and ever diplomatic doc with graceful precision. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305225761?v=glance
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| | This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. | | | These are (at least): - It is not a long term solution in its initial form. | | | Network Working Group R. Hinden Request for Comments: 1955 Ipsilon Networks, Inc. Category: Informational June 1996 New Scheme for Internet Routing and Addressing (ENCAPS) for IPNG Status of This Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. |
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http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1955.txt
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| | blog au vin » 1955 |
| | For some reason, the 1955 vintage has been below the radar relative to those other great years, but make no mistakes about it, 1955 is a great Right Bank vintage. | | | The Petrus was still extraordinary with the breed of a king and more flavors than Baskin Robbins (97). | | | The 1955 Lafite Rothschild also had surprisingly ripe fruit in its nose, but more in the black cherry direction. |
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http://blogauvin.finewinepress.com/?cat=14
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| | Corvette Chronicle - 1955 |
| | Vice President Richard M. Nixon released the final production numbers and statistics on the 1955 Corvette. | | | St Louis, MO (AP) - The President of the USA, Dwight D. Eisenhower, proclaimed this day as "America's Sports Car Day" in honor of the 1955 Corvette. |
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http://www.corvettemuseum.com/library-archives/chronicle/1955.htm
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| | 1955 |
| | I don't actually remember 1st February 1955, as I was busily occupied with the arduous task of being born! | | | Certain restaurants could serve liquor, provided you ordered it before 6 o'clock. | | | I remember the Brookvale Hotel opened in 1955, 10 o'clock on 9th March. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/sos/mem55.htm
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| | PROJECT 1947 - UFO REPORTS 1955 |
| | Setty, who himself is a physicist, is the President of the small group of scientists meeting in Vijnana Kendra. | | | "Sounds like birds, however, case evaluated as UNIDENTIFIED in 1955." | | | Setty said that Vijnana Kendra collects data as to the sightings of these strange objects til June 30, 1955, and afterwards wish to make a comprehensive study of these. |
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http://www.project1947.com/fig/1955a.htm
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| | Moon Race - 1955 |
| | 1955 March - Feasibility of million-pound-thrust liquid-fueled rocket engine established - The feasibility of a million-pound-thrust liquid-fueled rocket engine established by the Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation, Inc.... | | | That's where life is; that's were all the good stuff is. |
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http://www.astronautix.com/articles/mooe1955.htm
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| | CNN/SI - 1998 MLB Postseason - 1955 World Series |
| | For that was the day the Dodgers at long, long last brought the baseball championship of the world home to Flatbush. | | | Yet on the night of October 4 in the year 1955, there really was dancing in the streets of Brooklyn, and weeping for pure joy, too. | | | It was only last week the Dodgers finally beat the Yanks and won the Series. |
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/features/1998/wsarchive/1955.html
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| | Greatest Films of 1955 |
| | Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), 81 minutes, D: John Sturges | | | Mister Roberts (1955), 123 minutes, D: John Ford | | | Kiss Me Deadly (1955), 105 minutes, D: Robert Aldrich |
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| | Mountain climbing |
| | All my 1954 slides and some of the 1955 ones got lost in all the moves I've had in the last 45 years but I did find some from 1955 that I can show even though they have been damaged by humidity and time. | | | I salvaged some pictures of Pyramid Mountain (55/06/08), of the Canadian Alpine Club's annual summer camp which was at Mount Robson that year (55/07/28) and some of a long weekend outing (55/08/21) from Edmonton to Mount Rhonda which is about half way between Banff and Jasper. |
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http://berclo.net/page55/55en-mountains.html
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| | Tarantula (1955) |
| | One of these films was the 1955 epic Tarantula who's title creature would be put through the normal |
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http://www.kensforce.com/Tarantula_1955
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| | Heartbeat's One and Two - 50's and 60's - 1955 |
| | Heartbeat's One and Two - 50's and 60's - 1955 | | | Back in 1955, the popular songs of that time were: "Ain´t That a Shame" performed by Pat Boone; "Autumn Leaves" performed by Roger Williams; "Hearts of Stone" sung by The Fontane Sisters and as well as "Learnin´ the Blues" by Frank Sinatra. | | | Also topping the musical charts that year were: "Let Me Go Lover" by Joan Weber; "Sincerely" by The McGuire Sisters; "Sixteen Tons" by Tennessee Ford; and the ever popular "Unchained Melody" by Les Baxter. |
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http://www.centex.net/~elliott/1955.html
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| | In This Year ... 1955 |
| | This area contains a list of interesting reports based around the 2802 titles in the IMDb for 1955. | | | The form below allows you to search the database for titles from 1955 only. | | | Visit the links in the left hand area of this page to access the different reports. |
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http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Years/1955
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| | Yesterland: "Disneyland in 1955; |
| | Some were operating on opening day, while others premiered as the year progressed. | | | It's amazing that there are attractions from 1955 that you can still enjoy five decades later. | | | This page lists the attractions that Disneyland guests could experience in 1955. |
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http://www.yesterland.com/dl1955.html
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| | Dad's 1955 Studebaker Pickup |
| | This page is dedicated to my Dad's 1955 Studebaker Pickup. | | | If you would like your Studebaker page listed E-mail me. | | | Dad ordered the pickup with 16" wheels and ELECTRIC Wipers, but no radio. |
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http://www.northrim.net/wyanders/stude/mainpage.html
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| | Dodgers 1955 World Series |
| | This gave the National League champions the series, 4 games to 3. | | | 5, 1955 The Box Score SEVENTH GAME BROOKLYN DODGERS AB R H RBI BB K PO A Gilliam, lf, 2b... | | | In 1933 and 1934 the Giants and Cardinals did it. |
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| | 1955 American Motors Brochure - The Old Car Manual Project |
| | Thanks again to Henk Smit of the Netherlands for another fine scan from his collection. | | | 1955 American Motors Brochure - The Old Car Manual Project | | | Click on the thumbnails below to view the brochure. |
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http://www.tocmp.com/brochures/AMC/1955
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| | 1955 New York Yankees Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com |
| | Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org. | | | You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Teams > New York Yankees > 1955 Statistics / Schedule and Splits / Transactions |
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http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1955.shtml
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| | 1955 Experience |
| | Disneyland, his vision of a magical destination where families could come together to create memories that last a lifetime, opened its doors to the world. | | | Discover the timeless magic and imagination that remain favorites 50 years later. | | | In 1955 Walt Disney's dream became a reality. |
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http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/experience/overview?name=1955LandingPage
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| | Cadillac photos 1955 |
| | Of course the widely-spaced egg-crate grille and the huge "Dagmars" (impact guards) also are a dead giveaway, although these were used again in 1956. | | | at the wheel of this 1955 Cadillac sedan; he takes his clients to the city's Blues hot spots | | | The front bumper "bullet" impact guards were now shaped like large "shell" tips. |
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http://www.car-nection.com/cadillacdatabase/dbas_txt/Phocad55.htm
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| | 1955 Buick - The Old Car Manual Project |
| | The use of such material falls under the Fair Use provisions of intellectual property laws. | | | Click on a thumbnail to view a high resolution image. | | | 1955 Buick - The Old Car Manual Project |
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http://www.tocmp.com/brochures/Buick/1955
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| | Bethlehem Album Discography |
| | BCP-1 - Bobby Scott and Terry Pollard - Bobby Scott & Terry Pollard [1955] | | | Jazz - Ralph Sharon & Sue Ryan [1955] | | | BCP-19 - Bobby Troup Sings Johnny Mercer - Bobby Troup [1955] Jomboree Jones/Midnight Sun/Come Rain Or Come Shine/Laura/That Old Black Magic/One For My Baby/Cuckoo In The Clock/Day In Day Out/Jeepers Creepers/Lazy Mood/Skylark/I'm With You |
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http://www.bsnpubs.com/king/kingm.html
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| | Zenith: About: Corporate History: Remote Control |
| | Called "Zenith Space Command," the remote went into production in the fall of 1956, becoming the first practical wireless remote control device. | | | Introduced in 1955, Flashmatic operated by means of four photo cells, one in each corner of the TV screen. | | | Zenith engineer Eugene Polley invented the "Flashmatic," which represented the industry's first wireless TV remote. |
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http://www.zenith.com/sub_about/about_remote.html
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| | History of Computing Industrial Era 1955 - 1957 |
| | On 2 October 1955 at 23.45 the power finally shut off, the ENIAC retired. | | | History of Computing Industrial Era 1955 - 1957 | | | It’s estimated to have done more arithmetic than the entire human race has done prior to 1945. |
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http://www.thocp.net/timeline/1955.htm
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