1955 in Portugal
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Events in the year 1955 in Portugal.
Incumbents[edit]
Events[edit]
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 109: Portugal and several other countries are admitted to membership to the United Nations
Arts and entertainment[edit]
Sports[edit]
- AD Fundão founded
- Liga Feminina de Basquetebol founded
Births[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ "FIDE Chess Profile". FIDE. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ "Player details – 390057 POR GM Santos, Luís M. C. P. (2680)". International Correspondence Chess Federation. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ "Miguel Esteves Cardoso". www.geneall.net. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ 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.
