| 1955
— This year saw the creation of Kermit the Frog,
the first of Jim Henson’s muppets, as well as
the establishment of the National Hurricane Center
in Miami, Fla., after two hurricanes devastated the
East Coast. Also that year:
- Blacks
boycott segregated bus lines in Montgomery, Ala.
Dr. Martin Luther King, the boycott leader, gains
national prominence for advocating passive resistance
to segregation.
- Winston
Churchill resigns and is succeeded as British Prime
Minister by Sir Anthony Eden.
- Electricity
for public use is produced on a limited, experimental
basis at a nuclear reactor.
- General
Motors becomes the first corporation to earn over
$1 billion in a single year.
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