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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