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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.
•  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.
•  May 1, 1956 – A doctor in Japan reports an “epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system”, marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
•  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.
•  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 15, 1956 – Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.
•  October 17, 1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
•  December 9, 1956 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.

•  March 5, 1956 – Marco Paolini, Italian stage actor and author
•  March 9, 1956 – David Willetts, UK Minister of State for Universities and Science (Conservative)
•  May 10, 1956 – Jonathan Roberts, American writer played Mufasa from Lion King.
•  May 12, 1956 – Bernie Federko, Canadian ice hockey player
•  July 18, 1956 – Razor Shines, American baseball player, manager and coach
•  July 20, 1956 – Paul Cook, English musician (The Sex Pistols)
•  July 27, 1956 – Carol Leifer, American actress
•  November 15, 1956 – Michael Hampton, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
•  November 26, 1956 – Dale Jarrett, American race car driver
•  November 29, 1956 – Hinton Battle, American dancer