1956

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Years:	1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
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Countries	Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - South Africa
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1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

1 Events
2 Unknown date
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes

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Events

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January-April

January 1 - End of Anglo-Egyptian Codominium in Sudan.
January 16 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
January 26 - 1956 Winter Olympic Games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
January 26 - The United Kingdom bans heroin.
January 25-January 26 - Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala after Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4.
February 6 - Paul Harvey arrested for trying to break into Argonne National Laboratory.
February 15 - Urho Kekkonen is elected President of Finland.
February 22 - Elvis Presley enters the music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel."
February 23 - Nikita Khrushchev attacks the veneration of Joseph Stalin as a "cult of personality."
March 1 - the International Air Transport Association finalises a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
March 2 - Morocco declares its independence from France.
March 9 – British deport Archbishop Makarios from Cyprusto Seychelles.
March 12 - United Kingdom abolishes death penalty for murder
March 15 - The Broadway musical My Fair Lady opens in New York City.
March 20 - Tunisia gains independence from France.
March 23 - Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic.
April 7 - Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
April 9 - Habib Bouirgiba is elected prime minister of Tunisia.
April 19 - British diver Lionel Crabb dives into the Portsmouth harbor to investigate visiting Soviet cruiser and vanishes.
April 19 - Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

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May-June

early May - The Methodist Church in America decides at its General Conference to grant women full ordained clergy status.
May 8 - Austria and Israel form diplomatic relations.
May 8 - Constitutional union between Indonesia and Netherlands is dissolved.
May 9 - First ascent of Manaslu, eighth highest mountain in the world.
May 18 - First ascent of Lhotse (main), fourth highest mountain.
May 21 - Nuclear testing: In the Pacific Ocean, Bikini Atoll is nearly obliterated by the first airborne explosion of a hydrogen bomb.
May 23 - French minister Pierre Mendes-France resigns due to government's policy on Algeria.
June 1 - Vladeslav Molotov resigns as a foreign minister of Soviet Union; he later becomes ambassador in Mongolia.
June 6 - In Singapore, chief minister David Marshall resigns after breakdown of talks about internal self government in London.
June 10 - 1956 Summer Olympics: Equestrian events open in Stockholm, Sweden.
June 18 - Last foreign troops leave Egypt.
June 23 - Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes the second president of Egypt.
June 28 - MP Sydney Silverman's bill for abolition of death penalty passes the British House of Commons.
June 28 - Labour riots at Poznan, Poland, are crushed with heavy loss of life. Soviet troops fire at crowd that protests high prizes - 53 dead.
June 29 - Actress Marilyn Monroe marries the playwright Arthur Miller.
June 30 - A TWA Lockheed Constellation and United Airlines Douglas DC-7 collide in mid-air over the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash. All 128 people aboard the two aircraft are killed in the disaster. The accident prompts tighter air traffic control to be implemented in the United States.

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July-August

July 2 - Two passengers planes collide and fall into Grand Canyon - 127 dead
July 8 - First ascent of Gasherbrum II.
July 10 - British House of Lords defeats the abolition of death penalty.
July 24 - At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together which started on July 25, 1946.
July 25 - 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Swedish ship SS Stockholm in heavy fog, killing 51.
July 26 - Egyptian leader Gamal Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
July 30 - A Joint Resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing "In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto.
July 31 - Jim Laker sets extraordinary record at Old Trafford in the fourth Test of taking nineteen wickets in a first class match (the previous best was seventeen).
August 8 - Fire and explosion kills 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium.
August 17 - West Germany bans communist party
September 25 - Submarine telephone cable across the Atlantic opened