Willie Woods (
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Some Memorable Events during his Birth Year (1854):
* January 6 – The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is born.
* February 28 –The Republican Party (United States) is founded in Ripon, Wisconsin.
* March 28 –France declares war on Russia.
* June 10 –The first class of the United States Naval Academy graduates at Annapolis, Maryland.
* November 17 –In Egypt, the Suez Canal company is formed.
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Some Memorable Events during his Death Year (1955):
* January 7 – Marian Anderson is the first African-American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
* January 17 – USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut.
* January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) armed with nuclear weapons.
* February 12 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam.
* March 5 - Elvis Presley makes his television debut on "Louisiana Hayride" carried by KSLA-TV Shreveport (although audio recordings exists, there is no known video footage of this appearance).
* April 5 - Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom due to ill-health at the age of 80.
* June 16 – Lady and the Tramp, the Walt Disney company's 15th animated film, premieres in Chicago.
* July 17 – Disneyland opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
* August 27 – First edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published, in London.
* September 30 – Actor James Dean is killed when his automobile collides with another car at a highway junction near Cholame, California.
* October 27 – Film Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean, is released in the United States.
* December 1 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger and is arrested, leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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