Events Date 1955 September | History by KabAstro

Baseball History

Sep 7 New York Yankee Whitey Ford becomes 5th MLB pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters

Sep 8 Earliest clinching of an NL pennant (Brooklyn Dodgers)
Sep 9 Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run
Sep 10 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV starring James Arness

Sports History

Sep 11 75th US National Championships Men's Tennis: American Tony Trabert wins his second home title; beats Ken Rosewall of Australia 9-7, 6-3, 6-3

Tennis Player and Five-Time Major Champion Tony Trabert

Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major Champion Ken Rosewall

Sep 11 Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple

F1 World Champion

Sep 11 Juan Manuel Fango in a Mercedes wins season ending Italian Grand Prix at Monza to take his third Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 17 points from Englishman Stirling Moss

Sep 11 KTVT TV channel 11 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (IND) begins broadcasting

US Open Women's Tennis

Sep 11 US National Championship Women's Tennis: Defending champion Doris Hart beats Patricia Ward Hales of England 6-4, 6-2

Sep 12 KNTV TV channel 11 in San Jose, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Sep 13 Swiss inventor George de Mestral is granted a patent for what would become known as Velcro
Sep 14 Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245)

Tutti Frutti

Sep 14 Little Richard records "Tutti Frutti" at J & M Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana

Singer-Songwriter and Rock and Roll Pioneer Little Richard

Sep 15 WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, Florida (CBS) begins
Sep 16 Bauer & Berra homer in 9th beating Red Sox 5-4 taking over 1st
Sep 16 US Auto Club forms to oversee four major auto racing categories
Sep 16 Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt

Sports History

Sep 17 Future MLB Hall of Famer Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson goes 2-4 in his 1st game

Baseball Hall of Fame Third Baseman Brooks Robinson

Sep 17 Sammy Fain and Dan Shapiro's musical comedy "Ankles Aweigh" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater, NYC. after 176 performances

Baseball Record

Sep 18 Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock)

Revolución Libertadora

Sep 19 An army and navy revolt forces Argentine President Juan Perón to resign and flee to Paraguay

General and President of Argentina Juan Perón

Baseball Record

Sep 19 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season

Sep 19 Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico
Sep 20 Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both games of a doubleheader
Sep 20 Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 HRs in a season

Boxing Title Fight

Sep 21 In his last fight, undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano KOs light heavyweight Archie Moore in the 9th round at Yankee Stadium, NYC

Sep 21 Last allied occupying troops leave Austria
Sep 21 USSR performs nuclear test
Sep 22 -28] Hurricane Janet, kills 500 in the Caribbean

Britain's First-Ever TV Ad

Sep 22 Commercial television begins in the UK with the launch of ITV, soon airs the 1st advert on UK TV, for Gibbs SR toothpaste

An ice-enclosed tingling fresh portion of toothpaste is dispensed in the original ad

Sep 22 On BBC radio Grace Archer is killed in a barn fire on Brookfield Farm - the BBC denies this was to spoil the launch of rival network ITV

Emmett Till Killers Found Not Guilty

Sep 23 All male, all white jury finds Roy Brant and John William Milam not guilty of the brutal murder of black teenager Emmett Till in Sumner, Mississippi, in landmark case that would help inspire civil rights movement in the US; the two later sell an interview admitting to the murder