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Historical Event(s)
– A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– 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.
– Morocco gains its independence from France.
– Soviet military suppresses a mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization policy.
– First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
– Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
– Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
– A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Who Were Born On ?
– Carman Licciardello, American singer
– Dave Meros, American bassist (Spock’s Beard)
– Peter Hook, English bassist (Joy Division and New Order)
– Richard Karn, American actor
– Steve Ballmer, American businessman
– Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress
– William Michaelian, American novelist and poet
– Iain Milne, Scottish rugby union footballer
– Christoph Waltz, Austrian actor
– Lani Brockman, American actress, director and playwright