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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1956


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Birthdays


Deaths
  • January 3 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
  • January 3 - Joseph Wirth, 5th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
  • January 5 - Mistinguett, French singer (b. 1875)
  • January 8 - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
  • January 12 - Norman Kerry, American actor (b. 1894)
  • January 21 - Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883)
  • January 23 - Alexander Korda, Hungarian/British film director (b. 1893)
  • January 27 - Erich Kleiber, Argentine conductor (b. 1890)
  • January 29 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)
  • January 31 - A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882)
  • February 2 - Charles Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869)
  • February 2 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
  • February 3 - Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)
  • February 3 - Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (b. 1916)
  • February 8 - Connie Mack, American baseball manager and executive (b. 1862)
  • February 15 - Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (b. 1878)
  • February 18 - Gustave Charpentier, French composer (b. 1860)
  • February 28 - Emile Buisson, French murderer executed (b. 1902)
  • February 29 - Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines (b. 1890)
  • March 17 - Fred Allen, American actor and comedian (b. 1894)
  • March 17 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist
  • March 29 - Infante Alfonso of Spain, (b. 1941)
  • March 31 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (b. 1884)
  • April 21 - Charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895)
  • April 26 - Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
  • April 29 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)
  • April 30 - Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (b. 1877)
  • May 12 - Louis Calhern, American actor (b. 1895)
  • May 15 - Austin Osman Spare, English magician (b. 1886)
  • May 16 - H. B. Reese, American founder of Reese's (b. 1876)
  • May 18 - Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)
  • May 20 - Max Beerbohm, English theater critic (b. 1872)
  • June 2 - Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)
  • June 4 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress (b. 1881)
  • June 8 - Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
  • June 17 - Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)
  • June 17 - Bob Sweikert, American racing driver (b. 1926)
  • June 19 - Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (IBM) (b. 1874)
  • June 23 - Reinhold Gličre, Russian composer (b. 1875)
  • June 26 - Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1930)
  • July 7 - Gottfried Benn, German poet (b. 1886)
  • July 8 - Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist (b. 1881)
  • July 10 - Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
  • July 20 - James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1868)
  • August 11 - Jackson Pollock, American artist (b. 1912)
  • August 14 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898)
  • August 16 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor (b. 1882)
  • August 24 - Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (b. 1898)
  • August 25 - Alfred Kinsey, American research biologist (b. 1894)
  • August 26 - Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (b. 1881)
  • September 11 - Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I (b. 1894)
  • September 12 - Hans Carossa, German writer (b. 1878)
  • September 12 - Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (b. 1882)
  • September 18 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
  • September 22 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist
  • September 27 - Gerald Finzi, English composer (b. 1901)
  • September 27 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (b. 1911)
  • September 28 - William Edward Boeing, American aviation pioneer (b. 1881)
  • October 7 - Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
  • October 9 - Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
  • October 12 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b. 1872)
  • October 16 - Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (b. 1873)
  • October 17 - Anne Crawford, British film actor (b. 1920)
  • October 19 - Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894)
  • October 26 - Walter Gieseking, French pianist (b. 1895)
  • November 5 - Art Tatum, American musician (b. 1909)
  • November 22 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born choreographer (b. 1882)
  • November 24 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
  • November 26 - Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (b. 1905)
  • December 4 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (b. 1891)
  • December 6 - Dr. Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar, Indian Minister of Law and architect of The Constitution of India (b. 1891)
  • December 7 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (b. 1887)
  • December 14 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president of Finland (b. 1870)
  • December 16 - Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (b. 1890)
  • December 20 - Ramon Carrillo, Argentine neuroscientist and Public Health minister (b. 1906)
  • December 27 - Lambert McKenna, Irish editor and lexicographer. (b. 1870)

Events
  • January 1 - The Republic of the Sudan achieves independence from the Egyptian Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
  • January 1 - A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people.
  • January 3 - A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
  • January 8 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
  • January 16 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
  • January 30 - American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  • January 31 - Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France.
  • February 14 - The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.
  • February 25 - In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
  • February 29 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces to the nation that he is running for a second term.
  • March 1 - The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
  • March 1 - formation of the National People's Army
  • March 2 - Morocco declares its independence from France.
  • March 20 - Tunisia gains independence from France.
  • March 23 - Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
  • April 3 - Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
  • April 5 - Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
  • April 5 - In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
  • April 7 - Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
  • April 14 - In Chicago, Illinois (U.S.), videotape is first demonstrated.
  • April 19 - Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III of Monaco.
  • April 26 - First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
  • May 1 - The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
  • May 1 - A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
  • May 9 - First ascent of Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain.
  • May 20 - In Operation Redwing, (shot Cherokee), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean;
  • May 24 - Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna.
  • June 1 - First international flight (to YUL) from the Atlanta Municipal Airport (ATL; now Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and currently the world's busiest airport)
  • June 3 - British Rail renames 'Third Class' passenger facilities as 'Second Class' (Second Class facilities had been abolished in 1875, leaving just First Class and Third Class).
  • June 5 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
  • June 6 - David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns.
  • June 13 - Real Madrid wins the inaugural European Champion Clubs' Cup final, defeating Stade de Reims 4-3 at the Parc des Princes, Paris.
  • June 20 - A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
  • June 28 - Protests and demonstrations in Poznań. Also called Poznański czerwiec (June of Poznań).
  • June 29 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
  • June 30 - A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 (Flight 718) collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States, killing all 128 on board the two planes.
  • July 7 - Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
  • July 23 - The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs.
  • July 24 - At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together. They began performing together on July 25, 1946.
  • July 24 - Khartoum University College is awarded university status becoming the University of Khartoum.
  • July 25 - 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
  • July 26 - Following the World Bank's decline to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
  • July 30 - A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing "In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto.
  • July 31 - Jim Laker sets an extraordinary record at Old Trafford in the fourth Test, taking nineteen wickets in a first-class match (the previous best was seventeen).
  • August 6 - After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
  • August 30 - Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
  • September 4 - The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage.
  • September 9 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
  • September 11 - People to People International is founded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • September 13 - The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
  • September 13 - IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
  • September 17 - Television is first broadcast in Australia.
  • September 27 - USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
  • October 17 - The first commercial nuclear power station was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
  • October 22 - A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan.
  • October 23 - Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
  • October 29 - Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
  • October 29 - Tangier Protocol is signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
  • October 31 - Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
  • November 1 - Formation of Indian state of Andhra Pradesh with its capital as Hyderabad, formerly known as Nizam state.
  • November 1 - Formation of Kerala state in India.
  • November 4 - Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
  • November 5 - Nat King Cole becomes the second African-American (after jazz pianist/singer Hazel Scott in 1950) to host an American television program: "The Nat King Cole Show" on NBC.
  • November 7 - Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
  • November 13 - United States Supreme Court declares Alabama and Montgomery, Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal; thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  • December 2 - The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
  • December 6 - A water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
  • December 12 - Commencement of the Irish Republican Army's Border Campaign.
  • December 22 - Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity.


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