Editing 1955 (section)

===August===
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[[File:Diane 1955 track.png|thumb|120px|right| [[August 19]]: [[Hurricane Diane]]]]
* [[August 1]] – The prototype [[Lockheed U-2]] [[reconnaissance aircraft]] first flies, in Nevada.
* [[August 18]]
** The [[First Sudanese Civil War]] begins.
** The first meeting of the [[Organization of Central American States]] ({{langx|es|Organización de Estados Centroamericanos}}, ODECA) is held, in [[Antigua Guatemala]].
* [[August 19]] – [[Hurricane Diane]] hits the northeastern United States, killing over 200 people and causing over $1&nbsp;billion in damage.
* [[August 20]] – Hundreds of people are killed in anti-French rioting in [[Morocco]] and [[Algeria]].
* [[August 22]] – Eleven schoolchildren are killed when their school bus is hit by a freight train in [[Spring City, Tennessee]].
* [[August 25]] – The last [[Soviet Army]] forces leave Austria.
* [[August 26]] – [[Satyajit Ray]]'s film ''[[Pather Panchali]]'' is released in [[India]].
* [[August 27]] – The first edition of the ''[[Guinness Book of Records]]'' is published, in London.
* [[August 28]] – Black 14-year-old [[Emmett Till]] is [[lynching in the United States|lynched]] and shot in the head for allegedly whistling at a white woman in [[Money, Mississippi]]; his white murderers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, are acquitted by an all-white jury.