Editing 1955 (section)

===January===
{{main|January 1955}}
[[File:Marian Anderson.jpg|thumb|120px|right|[[January 7]]: [[Marian Anderson]] at the [[Metropolitan Opera|Met]]]]
[[File:Minuteman3launch.jpg|thumb|120px|right| [[January 22]]: [[ICBM]]]] 
* [[January 3]] – [[José Ramón Guizado]] becomes president of [[Panama]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Marjorie Millace Whiteman |title=Digest of International Law |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vVIMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA306 |year=1963 |publisher=U.S. Department of State |pages=306}}</ref>
* [[January 17]] – {{USS|Nautilus|SSN-571|6}}, the first [[Nuclear marine propulsion|nuclear-powered]] submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from [[Groton, Connecticut]].<ref>{{cite book |author=United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations |title=Policy statements |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XRJEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA724 |year=1959 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=724}}</ref>
* [[January 18]]–[[January 20|20]] – [[Battle of Yijiangshan Islands]]: The Chinese Communist [[People's Liberation Army]] seizes the islands from the [[Republic of China]] (Taiwan).<ref>{{cite book |author1=Xiaobing Li |author2=Hongshan Li |title=China and the United States: A New Cold War History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re8pJnCXvWoC&pg=PA57 |year=1998 |publisher=University Press of America |isbn=978-0-7618-0978-4 |pages=57}}</ref>
* [[January 22]] – In the United States, [[The Pentagon]] announces a plan to develop [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]s (ICBMs), armed with [[nuclear weapon]]s.
* [[January 23]] – The [[Sutton Coldfield rail crash]] kills 17, near Birmingham, England.
* [[January 25]] – The [[Presidium of the Supreme Soviet]] of the [[Soviet Union]] announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in [[1941]].
* [[January 28]] – The [[United States Congress]] authorizes President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] to use force to protect [[Taiwan]] from the People's Republic of China.