1956 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1956?
- January 1, 1956 – Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.
- January 3, 1956 – A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
- January 16, 1956 – President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
- February 12, 1956 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- February 14, 1956 – The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin’s crimes in a secret speech.
- March 1, 1956 – The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
- March 20, 1956 – Tunisia gains independence from France.
- 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.
- May 24, 1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland
- June 29, 1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
- July 7, 1956 – Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
- September 13, 1956 – IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
- October 14, 1956 – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
- October 23, 1956 – Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
- November 12, 1956 – Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
- November 13, 1956 – The United States Supreme Court declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 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.
- December 12, 1956 – Beginning of the Irish Republican Army’s “Border Campaign”.
- December 18, 1956 – Japan joins the United Nations.
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