1955 in Portugal

Events in the year 1955 in Portugal.

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Centuries:
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
See also:List of years in Portugal

Incumbents
  • President: Francisco Craveiro Lopes
  • Prime Minister: António de Oliveira Salazar

Events
  • United Nations Security Council Resolution 109: Portugal and several other countries are admitted to membership to the United Nations

Sports
  • AD Fundão founded
  • Liga Feminina de Basquetebol founded

Births
Luís Santos in 2006
  • 27 January – Maria do Carmo Seabra, politician
  • 28 February – Rui Reininho, singer
  • 30 June – Luís Santos, chess player and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster[1][2]
  • 25 July – Miguel Esteves Cardoso, writer, translator, critic and journalist[3]
  • 29 August – Francisco Lopes, politician
  • 1 November – Amarilis de Varennes, academic

Deaths
  • 3 January – José Norton de Matos, military officer and politician (born 1867)
  • 27 June
    • Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho, politician, Prime Minister 1914–15 (born 1871)
    • Artur de Oliveira Santos, journalist and local politician (born 1884)
  • 27 November – Luís de Freitas Branco, composer (born 1890)
  • 13 December – António Egas Moniz, neurologist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1949) (born 1874).[4]

References
  1. "FIDE Chess Profile". FIDE. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  2. "Player details – 390057 POR GM Santos, Luís M. C. P. (2680)". International Correspondence Chess Federation. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  3. "Miguel Esteves Cardoso". www.geneall.net. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  4. Artico, Marco; Spoletini, Marialuisa; Fumagalli, Lorenzo; Biagioni, Francesca; Ryskalin, Larisa; Fornai, Francesco; Salvati, Maurizio; Frati, Alessandro; Saverio Pastore, Francesco; Taurone, Samanta (2017). "Egas Moniz: 90 years (1927–2017) from cerebral angiography". Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. 11: 81. doi:10.3389/fnana.2017.00081. ISSN 1662-5129. PMC 5610728. PMID 28974927.
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