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In 1955, the observance date of National Secretaries Week was moved to the last full week of April, with Wednesday now designated as Administrative Professionals Day. [9] The name was changed to Professional Secretaries Week in 1981 and became Administrative Professionals Week in 2000 to encompass the expanding responsibilities and wide-ranging ...
April 10 – In the National Basketball Association championship, the Syracuse Nationals defeat the Fort Wayne Pistons 92-91 in Game 7 to win the title. April 12 – Jonas Salk's polio vaccine, having passed large-scale trials earlier in the U.S., receives full approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
[1] [2] It includes special events, holidays, federal and state observances, historic anniversaries, and more unusual celebratory traditions. [3] Bill Chase worked as a newspaper librarian and saw a need for "a single reference source for calendar dates, and for authoritative and current information about various observances throughout the year".
Recognizes the work of secretaries, administrative assistants, receptionists, and other administrative support professionals. [1] In the United States, [2] and Canada, [3] it is celebrated annually on the Wednesday of the last full week of April. In South Africa, it is celebrated annually on the first Wednesday of September (as National ...
While Secretary of Commerce, Secretary Sawyer declared the first National Secretaries Week from June 1 to 7, 1952. He designated Wednesday, June 4, as National Secretaries Day for this formerly male-dominated field of work turned female-dominated by sociocultural anamorphisms.
1955 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1955th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 955th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1950s decade.
The English Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announces to the House of Commons that Great Brattain adhered to the Baghdad Pact between Iraq and Turkey. [ 46 ] In Saigon, the French High Commissioner for Indochina, General Paul Ely , secures a truce between the Army and the National Front; the fighting between the two parties, after having caused ...
1955 – Murder of Emmett Till; 1955 – Rosa Parks remains seated on a bus, the incident which evolves into the Montgomery bus boycott; 1955 – AFL and CIO merge in America's largest labor union federation; 1955 – Warsaw Pact, which establishes a mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe (including the ...