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What Happened When You Were At Boalt …

•  Dwight D. Eisenhower is President
•  Jan 7: Marian Anderson is the first African American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC
•  Feb 1: Ray Kroc opens the 9th McDonald’s fast food restaurant since its founding in 1940
•  March 7: The 1954 Broadway musical version of Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin, becomes the first stage musical presented in its entirety on TV exactly as performed on stage. The program gains the largest viewership of a TV special up to that time, and becomes one of the first great television classics.
•  March 30: 27th Academy Awards hosted by Bob Hope and Thelma Ritter, On the Waterfront takes home 8 Oscars including Best Motion Picture and Best Actor, Marlon Brando.
•  June 16: Lady and the Tramp, Walt Disney's 15th animated film, premieres in Chicago, Illinois.
•  July 17: Disneyland opens in Anaheim, CA
•  July 18: The first atomic-generated electrical power is sold commercially to power Arco, Idaho.
•  July 18: The Geneva Summit between the US, USSR, UK, and France begins.
•  September 30: At the age of 24, actor James Dean is killed in an automobile accident in Cholame, California.
•  October 3: The Mickey Mouse Club airs on the ABC television network.
•  October 4: The Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees 2–0 in Game 7 of the 1955 Fall Classic.
•  October 11: 70-mm film is introduced with the theatrical release of Rodgers and Hammerstein's masterpiece, Oklahoma!
•  November 5: Racial segregation is forbidden on trains and buses in U.S. interstate commerce.
•  December 1: Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person, and the national civil rights movement begins.
•  December 31 – General Motors becomes the first American corporation to make over USD $1 billion in a year.