Glycine Watch SA founder Eugène Meylan, age 64, found stoned to death September 30 – Actor James Dean is killed when his automobile collides with another car at a highway junction, near Cholame, California. October October 2 – Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts on the CBS TV network in the United States. October 3 – The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on the ABC-TV network in the United States. October 4 – The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is released from prison in Seoul, South Korea. October 5 – Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California. October 11 – 70-mm film for projection is introduced, with the theatrical release of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical film, Oklahoma!. October 14 – The Organization of Central American States secretariat is inaugurated. October 20 – Disc jockey Bill Randle of WERE (Cleveland) is the key presenter of a concert at Brooklyn High School (Ohio), featuring Pat Boone and Bill Haley & His Comets, and opening with Elvis Presley (Elvis's first filmed performance), for a documentary on Randle titled The Pied Piper of Cleveland. October 26 After the last Allied troops have left Austria, and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, the country declares its permanent neutrality. Ngô Đình Diệm proclaims Vietnam to be a republic, with himself as its President (following the State of Vietnam referendum on October 23), and forms the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. October 27 – The film Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean, is released in the United States. October 29 – Soviet battleship Novorossiysk explodes at moorings in Sevastopol Bay, killing 608 (the Soviet Union's worst naval disaster to date). November November 1 Official start date of the Vietnam War between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and Republic of Vietnam; the north is allied with the Viet Cong. A time bomb explodes in the cargo hold of United Airlines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6B, over Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board. November 3 – The Rimutaka Tunnel opens on the New Zealand Railways, at 5.46 mi (8.79 km), the longest in the Southern Hemisphere at this time. November 15 – The Democratic Party of Japan and Japan Liberal Party merge to form the Japan Liberal Democratic Party, beginning the "1955 System". November 19 – C. Northcote Parkinson first propounds 'Parkinson's law', in The Economist. November 20 – Bo Diddley