Editing 1955 (section)

===April===
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[[File:McDonalds Museum.jpg|thumb|120px|right|[[April 15]]: [[McDonald's]]]]
* [[April 1]] – [[EOKA]] starts a resistance campaign against British rule in the [[Crown colony]] of [[Cyprus]].
* [[April 5]]
** [[Winston Churchill]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]], due to ill-health, at the age of 80.
** [[Richard J. Daley]] defeats Robert Merrian to become Mayor of Chicago, by a vote of 708,222 to 581,555.
* [[April 6]] – [[Anthony Eden]] becomes [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].
* [[April 10]] – In the American [[National Basketball Association]] championship, the [[Syracuse Nationals]] defeat the [[Fort Wayne Pistons]] 92–91 in Game 7, to win the title.
* [[April 11]]
** The [[Taiwan]]ese [[Kuomintang]] put a bomb on the airplane ''[[Kashmir Princess]]'', killing 16 but failing to assassinate the People's Republic of China leader, [[Zhou Enlai]].
** [[Taekwondo]], a form of [[Korean martial arts]], is officially recognized in South Korea. A board convened by [[Choi Hong-hi|General Choi Hong Hi]], including master instructors, historians and societal leaders, officially adopts the name Taekwon-Do for the unified Korean martial art.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of Taekwon‑Do – International Taekwon‑Do Federation |url=https://www.itf-tkd.org/history-of-taekwon-do/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=www.itf-tkd.org}}</ref>
* [[April 12]] – The [[Salk polio vaccine]], having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the [[Food and Drug Administration]].
* [[April 14]]
** The [[Detroit Red Wings]] win the [[Stanley Cup]] in North American ice hockey for the 7th time in franchise history, but will not win again until [[1997]].
** A [[1955 Zheduotang earthquake|7.1 earthquake]] shakes the Chinese city of [[Kangding]] leaving 70 dead.
* [[April 15]] – The first franchised [[McDonald's]] restaurant is opened by [[Ray Kroc]], in [[Des Plaines, Illinois]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wagner III |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DaQJEAAAQBAJ&dq=McDonald%27s+%22Drive-In+Restaurant+Services%22&pg=PT455 |title=Organizational Behavior: Securing Competitive Advantage |last2=Hollenbeck |first2=John R. |publisher=Routledge |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-000-33490-6}}</ref>
* [[April 16]] – The [[Burma]]–Japan Peace Treaty, signed in [[Rangoon]] on [[November 5]], [[1954]], comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries.
* [[April 17]] – [[Imre Nagy]], the communist Premier of Hungary, is ousted for being too moderate.
* [[April 18]]–[[April 24|24]] – The [[Asian-African Conference]] is held in [[Bandung]], Indonesia.