October 1955

Sunday 02:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts (last new episode aired on June 26, 1962).

Thursday 06:

A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people

Friday 07:

Aircraft carrier U.S.S. Saratoga at Brooklyn launched.

Thursday 20:

Publication of The Return of the King, being the last part of The Lord of the Rings

Monday 24:

The body of Manolo Just, a probable bisexual, is found in the Mexico apartment of Mary Rogers, daughter of Will Rogers. Homicide is suspected, but never proven.

Wednesday 26:

Ngo Dinh Diem declares himself Premier of South Vietnam

Saturday 29:

The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.