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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.
•  February 29, 1956 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces to the nation that he is running for a second term.
•  March 20, 1956 – Tunisia gains independence from France.
•  April 5, 1956 – Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
•  April 7, 1956 – Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
•  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 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore state are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
•  November 7, 1956 – 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, 1956 – The United States Supreme Court declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

•  March 17, 1956 – Patrick McDonnell, American cartoonist
•  March 20, 1956 – Catherine Ashton, British politician
•  June 17, 1956 – Iain Milne, Scottish rugby union footballer
•  July 20, 1956 – Paul Cook, English musician (The Sex Pistols)
•  August 2, 1956 – Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler
•  September 17, 1956 – Brian Andreas, American writer, sculptor, painter and publisher
•  October 19, 1956 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (d. 1993)
•  October 27, 1956 – Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer
•  October 28, 1956 – Volker Zotz, Austrian philosopher
•  November 7, 1956 – Judy Tenuta, American comedienne and accordionist