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1956 Calendar
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1956 Historical Event(s)
- February 12, 1956 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- February 25, 1956 – In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
- March 9, 1956 – Soviet military suppresses a mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization policy.
- April 5, 1956 – Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
- April 26, 1956 – First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
- August 6, 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
- August 30, 1956 – The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
- October 14, 1956 – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
- October 21, 1956 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is captured by the British Army, signalling the ultimate defeat of the Mau Mau Uprising, and essentially ending the British military campaign.
- November 1, 1956 – In India, Kanyakumari district was joined to Tamilnadu state from Kerala.
Who Were Born On 1956?
- February 20, 1956 – Rick Green, Canadian ice hockey player
- March 13, 1956 – Dana Delany, American actress
- April 25, 1956 – Jaroslava Schallerová, Czech actress
- July 4, 1956 – Mark Belling, American radio talkshow host
- July 31, 1956 – Michael Biehn, American actor
- September 10, 1956 – Johnny Fingers, Irish musician The Boomtown Rats
- November 8, 1956 – Steven Miller, American record producer
- November 10, 1956 – Sinbad, American actor
- November 13, 1956 – Rex Linn, American actor
- November 27, 1956 – William Fichtner, American actor