The Year 1956
History and Politics
Sudan proclaimed independent democratic republic.
Jordan and Isreal accept UN truce proposals; King Hussein of Jordan dismisses British Gen. J. B. Glubb;
cease-fire arranged betweeen Isreal and Lebanon-Syria-Jordan; Isreali troops invade Siani Peninsula;
Anglo-Fr. ultiamtum to Egypt and Isreal calls for cease-fire; US sends aid to Isreal.
Eisenhower and Eden issue Declaration of Washington.
At the 20th Soviet Communist Party Conference, Khrushchev demounces Stalin's policy.
Pakistan becomes Islamic republic.
Nassar elected President of Egypt; Nassar seizes Suez Canal; Anglo-Fr. forces bomb
Egyptian airfields Oct. 13th; US and USSR pressures effect cease-fire on Nov. 6th;
French and British troops withdraw; UN fleet clears Suez Canal
Soviet troops march into Hungary; UN General Assembly censures
USSR; martial law and mass arrests in Hungary.
Dwight D. Eisenhower re-elected President of US, with Rhichard
M. Nixon as vice president; Congress is Democratic.
Japan admitted to UN.
President Eisenhower appoints William J. Brennan to the US Supreme Court.
Martin Luther King emerges as leader of campaign for desegregation.
Fidel Castro lands in Cuba with small armed force intent on the overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Science, Technology, Growth
Nuetrino, an atomic particle with no electric charge, produced at Los Alamos Laboratory, US.
Antineutron discovered by Cork, Lambertson, Piccioni, and Wenzel.
"Dido" reactor opened at Harwell, England.
F. W. Muller developes the ion microscope.
Bell Telephone Company begins to develope "visual telephone"
Transatlantic cable telephone service inaugurated.
MD Ross & ML Lewis (US) reach the stratospheric height of 22.8 km. in a balloon.
Four new anitbiodics are tested in the US.
Oral vaccine developed by Albert Sabin against polio.
Daily Life
Brit. bank interest rates raised to 5.5%, the highest since 1932.
The first CND Aldermaston march.
Prince Rainier of Monaco marries Grace Kelly.
"Rock and Roll" dance is in vogue.
Vladimar Kuts (USSR) in Olypmic Games at Melbourne wins 5000 meters in
13 minutes 39.6 seconds & 10,000 meters in 28 minutes & 45.6 seconds.
"Andrea Doria" Italian liner, sinks after collision with "Stockholm" off Nantucket Island.
New York Coliseum with 9 acres of exhibit space, opens.
Harvie Ward wins US Golf Assc.; Cary Middlecoff wins Open.
US Lawn Tennis Singles won by Ken Rosewall, women's won by Shirley Fry.
"Needles" D Erb up, wins Belmont & Kentucky Derby.
Michigan State defeates UCLA in Rose Bowl, 17-14.
World Series won by New York (AL) over Brooklyn (NL), 4-3.
Rocky Marciano retires undefeated from boxing, and Floyd Patterson, at 21 the youngest
boxer to win the heavyweight crown, knocks out Archie Moore in a title fight.
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