1955 in Portugal

Events in the year 1955 in Portugal.

Incumbents

• President: Francisco Craveiro Lopes
• Prime Minister: António de Oliveira Salazar (National Union)

Events

• United Nations Security Council Resolution 109: Portugal and several other countries are admitted to membership to the United Nations

Sports

• AD Fundão founded
• Liga Feminina de Basquetebol founded

Births

• 27 January – Maria do Carmo Seabra, politician
• 28 February – Rui Reininho, singer
• 30 June – Luís Santos, chess player and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster
• 25 July – Miguel Esteves Cardoso, writer, translator, critic and journalist
• 29 August – Francisco Lopes, politician
• 1 November – Amarilis de Varennes, academic

Deaths

• 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).

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