1956 Calendar
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1956 Historical Event(s)
- January 28, 1956 – Elvis Presley made his first US TV appearance
- 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.
- April 3, 1956 – Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
- April 5, 1956 – 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.
- July 7, 1956 – Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
- July 16, 1956 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last “Big Tent” show in Pittsburgh, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
- July 25, 1956 – 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.
- September 4, 1956 – The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage.
- December 12, 1956 – Beginning of the Irish Republican Army’s “Border Campaign”.
Who Were Born On 1956?
- January 7, 1956 – Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer
- February 19, 1956 – Kathleen Beller, American actress
- March 3, 1956 – Zbigniew Boniek, Polish footballer
- April 6, 1956 – Sebastian Spreng, Argentinean visual artist
- June 3, 1956 – Brad Nessler, American sports broadcaster
- June 4, 1956 – Gerry Ryan, Irish radio talkshow host (d. 2010)
- June 11, 1956 – Steven A. Cohen, American hedge fund manager
- June 12, 1956 – Terry Alderman, Australian cricketer
- September 20, 1956 – Steve Coleman, African American saxophone player, spontaneous composer, composer and band leader
- December 23, 1956 – Dave Murray, English musician (Iron Maiden)