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Geraldine Brooks (writer)
1955Sep, 14

Geraldine Brooks (writer)

Geraldine Brooks, Australian-American novelist and journalist
Geraldine Brooks (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian-American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel March won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Events on 1955

  • 7Jan

    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.
  • 13Feb

    Dead Sea Scrolls

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

    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.
  • 14May

    Warsaw Pact

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

    State of Vietnam referendum, 1955

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