Editing 1955 (section)

===June===
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* [[June 7]] – The television [[Game show|quiz program]] ''[[The $64,000 Question]]'' premieres on [[CBS]]-TV in the United States, with [[Hal March]] as the host.
* [[June 11]] – [[1955 Le Mans disaster|Le Mans disaster]]: Eighty-three people are killed and at least 100 are injured after two race cars collide in the [[1955 24 Hours of Le Mans]].
* [[June 13]] – [[Mir mine]], the first [[diamond]] mine in the [[Soviet Union]], is discovered.
* [[June 16]] 
** ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]'', the [[Walt Disney]] company's 15th animated film, premieres in [[Chicago]].
** [[Bombing of Plaza de Mayo]]: The Argentine Navy drops bombs over Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires and shoots unarmed civilians in an attempt to kill president [[Juan Perón]].
* [[June 26]] – The [[Freedom Charter]] of the anti-[[apartheid]] [[South Africa]]n [[Congress Alliance]] is adopted, at a [[Congress of the People (1955)|Congress of the People]] in [[Kliptown]].
* [[June 30]] – The [[Simonstown Agreement]] provides for control of the naval base at [[Simon's Town]] in the Union of South Africa to transfer from the British [[Royal Navy]] to the [[South African Navy]].<ref>[http://filestore.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pdfs/small/cab-129-179-c-119.pdf The Simonstown Agreement: Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 29 October 1974.]</ref>