Modern Era · North America · Culture
1955
Disneyland opens
July 17, 1955
Walt Disney opened his theme park in Anaheim, California, on a stiflingly hot July day. Asphalt was still wet, rides broke down, a plumbers' strike had left workers to choose between drinking fountains and flushing toilets. None of it mattered. Disneyland would define a new kind of branded leisure space and change American family vacations.
In context
Also in 1955 (4 other events on record)
- Salk polio vaccine approved · North America · Science
- Rosa Parks refuses to move · North America · Politics
- Bandung Conference · Southeast Asia · Politics
- Warsaw Pact founded · Europe · Politics
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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