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'''1955''' was a [[year]].

== Events ==
=== Dated ===
On [[14 July]], the first [[U2 (plane)|U2]] [[spy]] [[plane]] was unveiled at [[Groom Lake]], [[Nevada]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'')

On [[Thursday]], [[1 December]], in [[Alabama]], [[civil rights]] activist [[Rosa Parks]] was arrested after she refused to relinquish her seat, on a segregated [[bus]] to [[Graham O'Brien]], a white passenger, leading to the [[Montgomery Bus Boycott]], which began on [[5 December]].

Former [[Stormcage Containment Facility|Stormcage]] inmate [[Krasko]] attempted to alter this crucial event in history by travelling back in time to prevent the trigger to the civil rights movement from occurring, believing it was where "everything went wrong," but the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] and her [[companion]]s worked to stop him from altering history, and succeeded in restoring this chain of events, which ultimately led to the end of [[racial segregation]] in [[America]], via the [[Civil Rights Movement]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]'')

A [[Christmas Parade]] in [[Downtown, Montgomery]] was promoted as taking place on [[15 December]] 1955. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]'')

=== Undated ===
The [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]] visited [[Professor]] [[Salyavin|Chronotis]] at [[St Cedd's College]], [[Cambridge]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shada (novelisation)|Shada]]'')

The [[First Doctor]] and [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] discovered the [[Shaker]]s, who were [[Murder|killing]] people while following [[Operation Shaker|outdated orders]] from [[World War II]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Losing the Audience (short story)|Losing the Audience]]'')

[[Park Vale Comprehensive School]] was built in [[Ealing]] on the site of a [[British Army]] barracks that had been destroyed in [[1940]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Berserker (TV story)|The Mark of the Berserker]]'')

[[University of South Grimster]] [[parapsychology|parapsychologists]] [[John Struther]], [[Margaret Schuman]] and [[Stanley Harris]] investigated the alleged haunting of [[Comarth Grange]] by a [[ghost]] known as the [[Old Peddler Woman]]. That night, Margaret was [[strangle]]d to death, apparently by the ghost, who was [[photograph]]ed by Stanley. It was not until [[2005]] that the "ghost" was revealed to have been [[Iris Wildthyme]], and Stanley Harris the real murderer. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Most Horrid (short story)|Most Horrid]]'')

''[[The Ladykillers]]'' was released. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Very Real Mystery of Wester Drumlins (short story)|The Very Real Mystery of Wester Drumlins]]'')

=== Alternate timeline ===
In an [[alternate timeline]] in which [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] won World War II, the [[Seventh Doctor]] fled [[Colditz Castle]] in [[October]] [[1944]] shortly after his companion [[Ace]] was killed by [[Kurtz|Feldwebel Kurtz]]. Immediately afterwards in his personal timeline, he returned to Germany during this year. [[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] [[materialise]]d near a border checkpoint in the West. As he appeared to be carrying a weapon, the Nazi soldiers on duty shot him immediately. After examining his body, they realised that it was in actuality an [[The Doctor's umbrella|old umbrella]]. Although the TARDIS was captured, the Doctor's body seemingly disappeared. Absconding after his [[regeneration]] into his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]], the Doctor adopted the alias "[[Johann Schmidt]]". He later told [[Elizabeth Klein]] that he was a collector of sorts who had stolen the Doctor's body and gained possession of the [[TARDIS key]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Klein's Story (audio story)|Klein's Story]]'')

== Births and deaths ==
[[Albert Einstein]] [[died]] in this year. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Universal Databank (reference book)}})

[[Lady]] [[Catherine Waverly]]'s father died in this year. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Manhunt (CM audio story)|Manhunt]]'')

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