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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.
- April 3, 1956 – Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
- April 26, 1956 – First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
- June 30, 1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 (Flight 718) collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States, killing all 128 on board the two planes.
- 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 31, 1956 – Jim Laker becomes the first man to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings as he returns figures of 10/53 in the Australian 2nd innings. This combined with his 9/37 in the first innings gave him match figures of 19/90 in the 4th Test at Old Trafford.
- October 8, 1956 – New York Yankees’s Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series; one of only 20 perfect games in MLB history.
- October 31, 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
- November 12, 1956 – Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
Who Were Born On 1956?
- January 1, 1956 – Ziad Rahbani, Lebanese composer
- January 17, 1956 – Paul Young, English musician
- April 8, 1956 – Jim Piddock, English actor, writer and producer
- May 17, 1956 – Sugar Ray Leonard, American boxer
- July 13, 1956 – Claude Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler
- October 8, 1956 – Stephanie Zimbalist, American actress
- October 11, 1956 – Nicanor Duarte Frutos, former President of Paraguay, Senator for life
- October 19, 1956 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (d. 1993)
- November 25, 1956 – Hélène Goudin, Swedish politician
- December 11, 1956 – Andrew Lansley, British politician