Births on December 6

Anne Begg

Born on December 6, 1955

Anne Begg, Scottish educator and politician

Dame Margaret Anne Begg DBE (born 6 December 1955) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen South between 1997 and 2015.

She chaired the Work and Pensions Select Committee between 2010 and 2015, and was the first permanent wheelchair user in the House of Commons since Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh in 1880.

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Events on 1955

7 Jan

Metropolitan Opera
Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
13 Feb

Dead Sea Scrolls
Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
18 Feb

Nevada Test Site
Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
14 May

Warsaw Pact
Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
23 Oct

State of Vietnam referendum, 1955
Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in a referendum and founds the Republic of Vietnam.

Births on December 6

Anne Begg

Born on December 6, 1955

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Events on 1955

Metropolitan Opera

Dead Sea Scrolls

Nevada Test Site

Warsaw Pact

State of Vietnam referendum, 1955