Palace of Culture and Science opens
1955 · Event
Stalin's 'gift' to Warsaw, a socialist-realist skyscraper, opens five days after Disneyland — two rival visions of mid-century modernity.
On these timelines: Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Cold War, Master
More from Eastern Europe & the Balkans
- Revolutions of 1989 (1989)
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569)
- Union of Lublin (1569)
- Hungarian Revolution (1956)
- Poland regains independence (1918)
- Ottoman Balkans (1354)
- Cyril and Methodius mission to the Slavs (863)
- Founding of Czechoslovakia (1918)
Around 1955
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)