84th United States Congress - Major Events

Major Events

  • January 28, 1955: Congress authorized the President to use force to protect Formosa from the People's Republic of China
  • February 10, 1955: The United States Navy helped the Republic of China evacuate Chinese Nationalist army and residents from the Tachen Islands to Taiwan.
  • February 12, 1955: President Eisenhower sent the first U.S. advisers to South Vietnam.
  • September 24, 1955: President Eisenhower suffered a coronary thrombosis.
  • November 5, 1955: Racial segregation was forbidden on trains and buses in U.S. interstate commerce.
  • December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person.
  • December 5, 1955: The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to become the AFL-CIO.
  • March 12, 1956: 96 Congressmen signed the Southern Manifesto, a protest against the 1954 Supreme Court ruling (Brown v. Board of Education) desegregating public education.
  • November 6, 1956: United States elections, 1956:
    • United States presidential election, 1956: Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Democratic challenger Adlai E. Stevenson in a rematch of their contest four years earlier.
    • United States Senate elections, 1956: The party balance of the chamber remained unchanged as Republican and Democratic gains cancelled each other.
    • United States House of Representatives elections, 1956: Republicans lost a net of two seats to the majority Democrats.

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