1956
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 - 1956 - 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961
Events:
- January 1 - End of Anglo-Egyptian Condominium in Sudan.
- January 16 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine
- January 26 - 1956 Winter Olympic Games[?] open in Cortina d'Ampezzo[?], Italy
- February 22 - Elvis Presley enters the music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel".
- February 23 - Nikita Khrushchev attacks the veneration of Joseph Stalin as a "cult of personality"
- March 2 - Morocco declares its independence from France
- March 15 - The Broadway musical My Fair Lady opens in New York City.
- March 20 - Tunisia gains independence from France
- March 23 - Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic.
- April 7 - Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
- May 21 - Nuclear testing: In the Pacific Ocean, Bikini Atoll is nearly obliterated by the first airborne explosion of a hydrogen bomb.
- October 29 - November 3: English, French and Israeli forces participate in the 1956 Suez War against Egypt.
- November - Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Adlai Stevenson in the U.S. presidential election
- December 12 : Japan becoms member of the UN
- Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia
- Eindhoven University of Technology founded in Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Hungary attempts to leave the Warsaw Pact and is invaded by the Red Army
- First hard disk (5MB) invented by IBM.
Art, Culture & Fashion
- 1956 in film
- 1956 in literature
- 1956 in music
- First ever Eurovision Song Contest - May 24
- 1956 in sports
- 1956 in television
- April - WNBQ Chicago becomes the first TV station to broadcast all its local programming in color.
- April Ampex demonstrates a videotape recorder at the NAB Convention in Chicago. The three networks place orders for the recorders.
- August 8 - Final telecast of the DuMont network
- October 1 - Ernie Kovacs becomes the host for NBC's Tonight Show on Mondays and Tuesdays.
- October 29 - First use of videotape in network television programming; CBS uses its Ampex VTR to record the evening news, anchored by Douglas Edwards[?]. The tape is then fed to West Coast stations three hours later
- October 29 - Chet Huntley[?] and David Brinkley take over anchor duties of the NBC evening newscast, which is renamed The Huntley-Brinkley Report
- November - The first use of videotape on a network television entertainment program; Jonathan Winters, uses videotape and superimposing techniques to be able to play two characters in the same skit for his NBC television show
- The Price Is Right game show premieres
- Black-and-white portable TV sets hit the market
Births:
- January 3 - Mel Gibson, actor and director
- January 7 - David Caruso[?], actor
- January 10 - Shawn Colvin[?], singer
- January 17 - Paul Young[?], English musician
- January 18 - Ray Dolby[?], inventor of the Dolby noise reduction system
- January 20 - Bill Maher[?], actor, comedian, political analyst
- January 21 - Geena Davis, actress
- January 27 - Mimi Rogers[?], actress
- January 31 - Johnny Rotten, musician (The "Sex Pistols")
- February 3 - Nathan Lane[?], actor
- February 11 - Kathleen Beller[?], actress.
- February 24 - Paula Zahn[?], television journalist
- March 2 - Mark Evans[?], bassist of AC/DC
- March 13 - Dana Delany[?], actress
- March 17 - Patrick McDonnell, creator of syndicated cartoon strip "Mutts"
- March 29 - Kurt Thomas[?], gymnast
- April 4 - David E. Kelley, writer, television producer
- April 26 - Koo Stark, actress
- May 17 - Sugar Ray Leonard, boxer
- May 17 - Bob Saget[?], actor
- May 19 - James Gosling, the "father" of Java programming language
- May 21 - Judge Reinhold[?], actor
- June 23 - Glenn Danzig, rock and roll preformer of Danzig
- July 9 - Tom Hanks, actor
Deaths:
- January 5 - Mistinguett, French cabaret singer
- January 31 - A. A. Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh
- February 8 - Connie Mack[?], baseball executive, coach
- March 17 - Irene Joliot-Curie, scientist
- May 12 - Louis Calhern, silent film actor
- May 17 - Austin Osman Spare, magician
- May 20 - Max Beerbohm, theater critic
- December 7 - Huntley Gordon, pioneer Hollywood actor
- December 16 - Nina Hamnett, artist
Awards/Prizes
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