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1956 Calendar

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•  January 1, 1956 – Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.
•  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.
•  April 19, 1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
•  June 11, 1956 – Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
•  July 26, 1956 – Following the World Bank’s refusal to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
•  September 4, 1956 – The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage.
•  October 19, 1956 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
•  December 19, 1956 – Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.

•  February 8, 1956 – Dave Meros, American bassist (Spock’s Beard)
•  March 11, 1956 – Curtis Brown, NASA astronaut
•  April 6, 1956 – Sebastian Spreng, Argentinean visual artist
•  May 11, 1956 – Alex Lester, British broadcaster
•  May 22, 1956 – Al Corley, American actor and producer
•  May 29, 1956 – LaToya Jackson, American singer
•  July 15, 1956 – Ian Curtis, British singer and songwriter (Joy Division) (d. 1980)
•  August 29, 1956 – Mark Morris, American choreographer
•  August 31, 1956 – Maria Balazova, Slovak painter
•  September 18, 1956 – Chris Hedges, American journalist and author