December 1956 calendar

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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in December 1956.
The US president was Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Sir Anthony Eden (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on December 1956: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of December 1956?

Events

01 Dec 1956 Candide opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 73 performances
02 Dec 1956 The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
03 Dec 1956 KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast
04 Dec 1956 22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (quarterback).
05 Dec 1956 Rose Heilbron becomes Britain's first female judge.
06 Dec 1956 Happy Hunting opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 413 performances
08 Dec 1956 16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia
09 Dec 1956 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
10 Dec 1956 Establishment of MPLA in Angola.
11 Dec 1956 Anti-Russian demonstrations in Stettin and Wroclaw, Poland.
12 Dec 1956 Beginning of the Irish Republican Army's ''Border Campaign''.
14 Dec 1956 Paul-Henri Spaak is appointed Secretary-General of NATO.
15 Dec 1956 KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
16 Dec 1956 Fanny closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 888 performances
18 Dec 1956 To Tell the Truth debuts on CBS-TV
19 Dec 1956 Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
20 Dec 1956 Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra.
22 Dec 1956 New Faces of 1956 closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 performances
23 Dec 1956 British and French troops leave the Suez Canal region.
24 Dec 1956 I Love Lucy Christmas show airs, never put in syndication
27 Dec 1956 Bill Sharman (Boston) ends NBA free throw streak of 55 games.
28 Dec 1956 Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
30 Dec 1956 New York Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game.
31 Dec 1956 Bob Barker makes his TV debut as host of the game show ''Truth or Consequences''.

Famous Birthday

Claire Chazal
French TV presenter (anchor), romance writer, and director of news at TF1.
Larry Bird
American basketball star, a 6' 9", 220 lb.
Catherine Jacob
French actress, she won the Cesar award in 1988 for Best promising actress, playing in "Life is a long quiet river".
Patsy Ramsey
Steven Bauer
Havana, Cuba -- Actor (Scarface, Thief of Hearts).
Randy Rhoads
American musician.
Peter Buck
American musician, a guitarist with the group R.E.
Suzy Bogguss
American Country-Western singer with a big hit, "Fear of Flying.
Jean-Marie Messier
French businessman who was Chairman and Chief Executive of the multinational media conglomerate Vivendi (formerly Vivendi Universal) until...
Jean-Marie Messier
French businessman who was Chairman and Chief Executive of the multinational media conglomerate Vivendi (formerly Vivendi Universal) until...
Michele Alboreto
Italian race car driver, Champion in the Grand Prix 1981-83.
Nigel Kennedy
English violinist.
Majida El Roumi
Lebanese soprano, singer.
Ron White
American comedian.
Pierre Mari
Rod Blagojevich
American lawyer and politician 40th Governor of Illinois.
Dave Murray
Guitarist.
Simon Fanshawe
British writer and co-host of "That's Life" with Esther Rantzen for one season.
William Orbit
English keyboard player and producer (Torch Song and Bassomatic).
Lyonel Trouillot
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Famous Deaths

Edgar Leslie Bainton
Composer, dies at 76.
Hans Barth
Composer, dies at 59.
Lorenzo Perosi
Composer, dies at 83.
Holmes Herbert
Actor (The Kiss), dies at 74.
Alexandr Rodchenko
Russian painter and photographer (Born 1891).
Lewis M Terman
psychologist (Genetic studies of genius), dies at age 79.
Roelof Kranenburg
Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at age 76.
Bhimrao Ambedkar
social reformer and architect of the Constitution of India (Born 1891).
Juho Kusti Paasikivi
Finnish politician (Born 1870).
Robert Walser
Notable German-speaking Swiss writer.
Nina Hamnett
Welsh-English painter (d. 1956).
Eddie Acuff
Actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48.
Lambert McKenna
Irish priest lexicographer and scholar (d. 1956).
David Shimoni
Belarusian-Israeli poet and translator (d. 1956).
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