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1956 Calendar

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•  January 8, 1956 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
•  February 12, 1956 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Monkey in Chinese astrology.
•  April 14, 1956 – In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
•  June 5, 1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, “Hound Dog”, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
•  June 28, 1956 – in Poznań, workers from HCP factory went to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
•  July 30, 1956 – 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.
•  August 30, 1956 – The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
•  September 27, 1956 – 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, 1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
•  December 9, 1956 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.

•  January 1, 1956 – Kōji Yakusho, Japanese actor
•  January 22, 1956 – Steve Riley, American drummer
•  February 26, 1956 – Kevin Dunn, American actor
•  May 23, 1956 – Mark Shaw, New Zealand rugby footballer
•  June 22, 1956 – Alfons De Wolf, Belgian cyclist
•  July 9, 1956 – Tom Hanks, American actor
•  July 26, 1956 – Tommy Rich, American professional wrestler
•  July 30, 1956 – Anita Hill, American academic, witness at the sexual harassment trial against Clarence Thomas
•  November 7, 1956 – Jonathan Palmer, British Formula One racer
•  November 15, 1956 – Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (d. 2003)