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The Eighty-fourth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1955 to January 3, 1957, during the third and fourth years of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Seventeenth Census of the United States in 1950. Both chambers had a Democratic majority. ==Major events== * January 28, 1955: Congress authorized the President to use force to protect Taiwan from the People's Republic of China * February 10, 1955: The United States Navy helped the Republic of China evacuate Chinese Nationalist army and residents from the Tachen Islands to Taiwan. * February 12, 1955: President Eisenhower sent the first U.S. advisers to South Vietnam. * September 24, 1955: President Eisenhower suffered a coronary thrombosis. * November 5, 1955: Racial segregation was forbidden on trains and buses in U.S. interstate commerce. * December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person. * December 5, 1955: The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to become the AFL-CIO. * March 12, 1956: 96 Congressmen signed the Southern Manifesto, a protest against the 1954 Supreme Court ruling (Brown v. Board of Education) desegregating public education. * November 6, 1956: United States elections, 1956: * * United States presidential election, 1956: Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Democratic challenger Adlai E. Stevenson in a rematch of their contest four years earlier. * * United States Senate elections, 1956: The party balance of the chamber remained unchanged as Republican and Democratic gains cancelled each other. * * United States House of Representatives elections, 1956: Republicans lost a net of two seats to the majority Democrats. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「84th United States Congress」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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