1956: On This Year

• 1956 was a hugely important year for popular culture, and much of it revolved around the “King of Rock and Roll,” Elvis Presley.
• Elvis entered US music charts for the first time this year, with his recording of “Heartbreak Hotel.” This year was also when Elvis released his first gold album, titled “Elvis Presley.” Elvis famously caused a national stir in June of 1956 with his performance of “Hound Dog” on The Milton Berle Show with his, for the time, “suggestive” hip movements.
• Presley would also take part in the “Million Dollar Quartet” near the end of 1956. On this occasion, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash played together at the Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, for this one and only time.
• 1956 was a notable year for female celebrities as well. Doris Day recorded her famous song, “Que, Sera, Sera” and Norma Jean Mortenson legally changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.
• For television history, 1956 was incredibly important. This was the year that legendary host, Bob Barker made his television debut, hosting a game show called Truth or Consequences. A very popular production of Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin, was restaged live on NBC this year, due to high demand. In another development, the American soap opera, As the World Turns, made its debut on CBS.
• This was a big year for film and theatre as well. My Fair Lady opened on Broadway and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I was released in movie theatres. Also released in theatres this year was Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston. 1956 was also the year that the great comic duo, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, held their last comedy show together. Their last performance was at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City.

According to the Chinese Zodiac and Astrology 1956 was the Year of the Monkey.

Discover Zodiac Sign Characteristics and Personality Traits of people born under the Monkey sign.

The 3 most popular baby names in 1956 were Michael, James and Robert for boys and Mary, Debra and Linda for girls according to the US Census Bureau historical records.

1956: What were the Top #10 male names given to baby boys that year?

The Top # 10 male names given to baby boys in 1956 in the USA according to the US Census Bureau historical records were:

• Michael
• James
• Robert
• David
• John
• William
• Richard
• Mark
• Thomas
• Steven

1956: What were the Top #10 female names given to baby girls that year?

The Top # 10 female names given to baby girls in 1956 in the USA according to the US Census Bureau historical records were:

• Mary
• Debra
• Linda
• Deborah
• Susan
• Patricia
• Karen
• Cynthia
• Barbara
• Donna

1956: What was the number 1 song in the USA that year?

The number 1 song in the USA in 1956, i.e. the best selling and most popular song of tha year, was Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) by Doris Day

1956: What was the music chart in the USA that year?

The Music Chart in the USA in 1956 with the top 10 most popular songs, was:

1. Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) by Doris Day
2. The Great Pretender by The Platters
3. The Green Door by Jim Lowe
4. Moonglow And Theme From Picnic by George Cates
5. Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino
6. Dungaree Doll by Eddie Fisher
7. Hey! Jealous Lover by Frank Sinatra
8. A Rose And A Baby Ruth by George Hamilton IV
9. Love Me by Elvis Presley
10. He by Al Hibbler

1956: What was the number 1 song in the UK that year?

The number 1 song in the UK in 1956, i.e. the best selling and most popular song of tha year, was Why Do Fools Fall In Love by Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon

1956: What was the music chart in the UK that year?

The Music Chart in the UK in 1956 with the top 10 most popular songs, was:

1. Why Do Fools Fall In Love by Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon
2. Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) by Doris Day
3. Rock And Roll Waltz by Kay Starr
4. Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley
5. No Other Love by Ronnie Hilton
6. The Poor People Of Paris by Winifred Atwell
7. Only You by The Hilltoppers
8. It's Almost Tomorrow by The Dreamweavers
9. I'll Be Home by Pat Boone
10. Lay Down Your Arms by Anne Shelton

The world population in 1956 was 2,822,443,282 people according to data by United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. This figure includes both urban and rural populations. The urban population at that time accounted for 32.0% of the total population, which is roughly 903.2 million individuals.The annual population change in 1956 was an increase of +49.4 million people, representing a percentage increase of +1.78% over the previous year.The average population density in 1956 was 12 persons per square mile (or 19 persons per square kilometer).

Here's what happened in 1956:

• Jan 1, 1956: Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville
• Jan 2, 1956: Poujadists / communists win French parliamentary elections
• Jan 3, 1956: A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
• Jan 4, 1956: Alexander Tikhonovich Grechaninov, Russian/American composer, dies at age 91.
• Jan 6, 1956: KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, TX (NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
• Jan 7, 1956: Vinoo Mankad scores 231 versus New Zealand, 413 opening stand with Roy.
• Jan 8, 1956: Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken.
• Jan 9, 1956: Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column first appears in newspapers.
• Jan 10, 1956: Elvis records Heartbreak Hotel
• Jan 14, 1956: Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti".
• Jan 15, 1956: D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia
• Jan 16, 1956: Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine.
• Jan 19, 1956: Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field.
• Jan 20, 1956: Buddy Holly records Blue Days Black Night in Nashville
• Jan 21, 1956: Comedy in Music (Victor Borge) closes at Golden NYC after 849 performances
• Jan 22, 1956: 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles, California, USA.
• Jan 24, 1956: 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)
• Jan 25, 1956: 96.5 cm (38 inches) of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record).
• Jan 26, 1956: Hank Greenberg and Joe Cronin are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
• Jan 28, 1956: Elvis Presley made his first US TV appearance
• Jan 30, 1956: Elvis Presley records his version of Blue Suede Shoes
• Jan 31, 1956: Juscelino Kubitschek becomes President of Brazil.
• Feb 1, 1956: Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
• Feb 2, 1956: Coasters sign with Atlantic Records
• Feb 3, 1956: Toni Sailor becomes first Olympics skier to sweep the three alpine events.
• Feb 5, 1956: Louise Suggs win LPGA Havana Golf Open.
• Feb 6, 1956: French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers.
• Feb 7, 1956: Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled
• Feb 8, 1956: Connie Mack, baseball manager (Philadelphia Athletics, 1901-50), dies at age 93.
• Feb 9, 1956: KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
• Feb 10, 1956: My Friend Flicka premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
• Feb 11, 1956: British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union after being missing for 5 years.
• Feb 12, 1956: Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open.
• Feb 13, 1956: KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland
• Feb 14, 1956: Verhoeven / Nauta / De King / Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
• Feb 15, 1956: Urho Kekkonen is appointed President of Finland.
• Feb 16, 1956: Only a little more than four months after the release of the 70mm version of ''Oklahoma!'', the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''Carousel'', starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, is released in Cinemascope 55. MacRae and Jones had previously starred in ''Oklahoma!'' ''Carousel'', intended for showing in 55mm, ends up being shown only in 35mm.
• Feb 17, 1956: Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas of Great Britain.
• Feb 19, 1956: Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Golf Open.
• Feb 20, 1956: WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Feb 23, 1956: 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow
• Feb 24, 1956: Doris Day records her most famous song: Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be). It is from Alfred Hitchcock's ''The Man Who Knew Too Much'', in which Day co-stars with James Stewart.
• Feb 25, 1956: Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
• Feb 26, 1956: Writers Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
• Feb 27, 1956: Female suffrage in Egypt.
• Feb 28, 1956: Thirteen die in a train crash in Swampscott, Massachusetts, USA.
• Feb 29, 1956: In Centerville, South Dakota, USA a building is hit by a falling meteorite.
• Mar 1, 1956: The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
• Mar 2, 1956: The British deport Archbishop Makarios from Cyprus to the Seychelles.
• Mar 3, 1956: Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
• Mar 5, 1956: King Kong, 1st televised
• Mar 9, 1956: Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
• Mar 10, 1956: Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph).
• Mar 11, 1956: Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.
• Mar 13, 1956: Elvis Presley releases his first Gold Album titled ''Elvis Presley''.
• Mar 14, 1956: Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)
• Mar 15, 1956: My Fair Lady opens at Mark Hellinger Theater in New York City for 2,715 performances.
• Mar 16, 1956: US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright.
• Mar 17, 1956: 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show and Lucy Ball
• Mar 19, 1956: Biggest NBA margin of victory: Minnesota Lakers-133, Saint Louis Hawks-75.
• Mar 20, 1956: 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends
• Mar 21, 1956: 28th Academy Awards - Marty, Anna Magnani and Ernest Borgnine win
• Mar 22, 1956: Mr Wonderful opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances
• Mar 23, 1956: Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic Republic in Commonwealth
• Mar 26, 1956: Medic Alert Foundation forms
• Mar 27, 1956: US seizes American communist newspaper Daily Worker.
• Apr 1, 1956: 10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank and Damn Yankees win.
• Apr 2, 1956: Soap operas As the World Turns andEdge of Night premieres on TV
• Apr 3, 1956: Silk Stockings closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 461 performances
• Apr 5, 1956: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
• Apr 6, 1956: Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison.
• Apr 7, 1956: 10th NBA Championship: Philadelphia Warriors beat Fort Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1.
• Apr 8, 1956: Six marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Island, South Carolina, USA.
• Apr 9, 1956: Habib Bourguiba is elected prime minister of Tunisia.
• Apr 10, 1956: Philips broadcasts first Dutch color TV programs.
• Apr 11, 1956: French government decides to send 200,000 reservists to Algeria.
• Apr 12, 1956: Bandaranaike government forms in Ceylon.
• Apr 13, 1956: KETA TV channel 13 in Oklahoma City, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Apr 14, 1956: Plain & Fancy closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 476 performances
• Apr 15, 1956: Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open.
• Apr 17, 1956: Kominform disbands
• Apr 18, 1956: Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony)
• Apr 19, 1956: 1st ML baseball game in NJ, Dodgers beat Phils in Roosevelt Stadium
• Apr 21, 1956: Former U.S. First Daughter Margaret Truman marries Clifton Daniel.
• Apr 22, 1956: Patty Berg wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open.
• Apr 23, 1956: US Supreme court ends race segregation on buses.
• Apr 26, 1956: First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
• Apr 27, 1956: Heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing.
• Apr 28, 1956: Reds Frank Robinson hits his 1st of 586 HRs
• Apr 29, 1956: WLUC TV channel 6 in Marquette, MI (CBS / NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
• Apr 30, 1956: Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming ''I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty.''
• May 1, 1956: The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
• May 2, 1956: US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus.
• May 3, 1956: Most Happy Fella opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances
• May 4, 1956: Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam
• May 5, 1956: Broekster Boys soccer team forms in Damwoude
• May 6, 1956: WRCB TV channel 3 in Chattanooga, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
• May 7, 1956: New York Giants' Bill White homers in his first at bat.
• May 8, 1956: John Osbornes Look Back in Anger, premieres in London
• May 9, 1956: Manaslu, eighth highest mountain in the world, is first ascended.
• May 10, 1956: KFSN TV channel 30 in Fresno, CA (ABC / CBS) begins broadcasting
• May 11, 1956: Pinky Lee Show, last airs on NBC-TV
• May 12, 1956: East Pakistan is struck by cyclone and tidal waves.
• May 13, 1956: Pachyderm Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
• May 16, 1956: Kraft Theater presents an act from Profiles in Courage
• May 18, 1956: Mickey Mantle hits homerun from both sides of plate for record third time.
• May 19, 1956: Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning HR, 1st HR in 8 straight games
• May 20, 1956: Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll.
• May 21, 1956: WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting
• May 22, 1956: Bob Hope Show, last airs on NBC-TV
• May 23, 1956: World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Francisco, California.
• May 24, 1956: Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbana.
• May 25, 1956: Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas
• May 26, 1956: US Navy aircraft carrier Bennington burns off Rhode Island, killing 103.
• May 27, 1956: French raid in Algiers
• May 28, 1956: US President Dwight Eisenhower signs farm bill allowing government to store agricultural surplus.
• May 29, 1956: WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, Florida (NBC) 1st broadcast
• May 30, 1956: Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
• Jun 1, 1956: First international flight (to Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport - YUL) from the Atlanta Municipal Airport (ATL); now Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and currently the world's busiest airport)
• Jun 2, 1956: Yugoslav President Tito visits Moscow
• Jun 3, 1956: 3rd class travel on British Railways ends
• Jun 4, 1956: Speech by USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev blasting Josef Stalin made public.
• Jun 5, 1956: Milton Berle Show, last airs on NBC-TV
• Jun 6, 1956: In Singapore, chief minister David Marshall resigns after the breakdown of talks about internal self-government in London.
• Jun 7, 1956: Singapore government of Marshall resigns
• Jun 8, 1956: Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore government
• Jun 9, 1956: Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed
• Jun 10, 1956: 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm
• Jun 11, 1956: Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
• Jun 13, 1956: Shangri-La opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 21 performances
• Jun 14, 1956: New Faces of 1956 opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 performances
• Jun 15, 1956: Eindhoven University of Technology is founded in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
• Jun 16, 1956: 56th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill Country Club - New York
• Jun 18, 1956: Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal
• Jun 19, 1956: Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films
• Jun 20, 1956: Venezuelan Super Constellation crashes in NJ, 74 killed
• Jun 21, 1956: Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
• Jun 23, 1956: Jimmy Durante Show, last airs on NBC-TV
• Jun 24, 1956: Steve Allen Show, returns on NBC-TV
• Jun 25, 1956: 51 die in collision of Andrea Doria andStockholm
• Jun 28, 1956: First atomic reactor built for private research operates in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Jun 29, 1956: Federal interstate highway system act signed
• Jun 30, 1956: Pipe Dream closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 245 performances
• Jul 1, 1956: Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Western Golf Open
• Jul 2, 1956: A lab experiment at Sylvania Electric Products results in an explosion.
• Jul 4, 1956: US most intense rainfall (1.23 inches in one minute) at Unionville, Maryland.
• Jul 5, 1956: France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria
• Jul 6, 1956: 70th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (62 46 75 64)
• Jul 7, 1956: 63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61)
• Jul 8, 1956: Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Syracuse Golf Open
• Jul 10, 1956: 23rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at Griffith Stadium, Washington DC
• Jul 13, 1956: WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
• Jul 14, 1956: Boston Red Sox' pitcher Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0.
• Jul 15, 1956: Beverly Hanson / Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Hot Springs Golf Invitational
• Jul 16, 1956: Detroit Tigers and Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million
• Jul 19, 1956: US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
• Jul 20, 1956: Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
• Jul 23, 1956: Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg inducted into Hall of Fame
• Jul 24, 1956: Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City
• Jul 25, 1956: 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill Country Club - Boston
• Jul 26, 1956: Egypt seizes Suez Canal.
• Jul 29, 1956: WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting
• Jul 30, 1956: US motto In God We Trust authorized
• Jul 31, 1956: August – The exhibition ''This Is Tomorrow'' opens at Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.
• Aug 1, 1956: KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Aug 3, 1956: Willie Williams of the US sets 100 metre dash record at 10.1 seconds.
• Aug 4, 1956: Elvis Presley releases Hound Dog
• Aug 5, 1956: KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, GU (CBS / ABC / NBC) begins broadcasting
• Aug 6, 1956: After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
• Aug 7, 1956: Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans
• Aug 8, 1956: WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins
• Aug 9, 1956: 1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama
• Aug 10, 1956: 23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000)
• Aug 11, 1956: 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620
• Aug 12, 1956: Canadain actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Gloria Brink
• Aug 13, 1956: WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
• Aug 16, 1956: Adlai E Stevenson nominated as Democratic US presidential candidate.
• Aug 17, 1956: Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany
• Aug 18, 1956: Cin Reds (8) and Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game
• Aug 19, 1956: Fay Crocker wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open
• Aug 20, 1956: Republicans convene at Cow Palace
• Aug 21, 1956: WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Aug 22, 1956: Elvis Presley begins filming The Reno Brothers (Love Me Tender)
• Aug 24, 1956: First non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrives in Washington DC.
• Aug 25, 1956: To make room for Enos Slaughter, New York Yanks release Phil Rizzuto
• Aug 26, 1956: KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS / NBC) begins broadcasting
• Aug 27, 1956: Curt Robert of Columbus (International League) hits 4 HRs in 7 inning game
• Aug 29, 1956: French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis
• Aug 30, 1956: White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
• Sep 1, 1956: KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 2, 1956: Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
• Sep 3, 1956: Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee
• Sep 4, 1956: The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage.
• Sep 5, 1956: 20 die in a train crash in Springer, New Mexico, USA.
• Sep 7, 1956: Bell X-2 sets unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000+ feet.
• Sep 9, 1956: 70th US Womens Tennis: Shirley J Fry beats Althea Gibson (63 64)
• Sep 10, 1956: Louisville Ky public schools integrates
• Sep 11, 1956: Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
• Sep 12, 1956: Black students enter and are barred from Clay Ky elementary school
• Sep 13, 1956: In the USA, IBM introduces the IBM 350 Disk File, the first hard drive, as part of the IBM RAMAC 305 computer. The drive features fifty double-sided 24-inch diameter platters, served by one arm and one read/write head. Capacity is about 5MB, and transfer rate is 8800 characters per second.
• Sep 14, 1956: First prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC.
• Sep 16, 1956: Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Clock Golf Open
• Sep 17, 1956: Black students enter Clay Ky elementary school
• Sep 18, 1956: Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a seaon
• Sep 21, 1956: Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza García is assassinated.
• Sep 24, 1956: 1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland)
• Sep 25, 1956: 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Scot-Canada)
• Sep 27, 1956: USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
• Sep 28, 1956: Johnny Carson Show, TV Variety
• Sep 29, 1956: I Love Mickey by Mickey Mantle and Teresa Brewer peaks at #87
• Sep 30, 1956: Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR
• Oct 1, 1956: Zestienhoven airport at Rotterdam official opens
• Oct 2, 1956: First atomic power clock exhibited-New York City.
• Oct 3, 1956: Sal Maglie and Dodgers defeat Yanks 6-3 in opening game of World Series
• Oct 5, 1956: Yogi Berra becomes the fourth New York Yankees' player to hit a World Series Grand Slam (World Series #53).
• Oct 6, 1956: Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
• Oct 7, 1956: Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open
• Oct 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.
• Oct 9, 1956: 10th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 1-1 at Montreal
• Oct 10, 1956: Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match vs. Aus, Karachi
• Oct 11, 1956: 1st Pakistan vs. Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day
• Oct 13, 1956: WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle, ME (CBS / NBC / ABC) begins
• Oct 14, 1956: Patty Berg wins LPGA Arkansas Golf Open
• Oct 15, 1956: Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
• Oct 16, 1956: William J Brennan Jr becomes a US Supreme Court Justice.
• Oct 17, 1956: Pakistan defeat Australia by nine wickets at 1st attempt
• Oct 19, 1956: The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
• Oct 21, 1956: Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
• Oct 22, 1956: France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella
• Oct 23, 1956: First video recording on magnetic tape televised in USA, coast-to-coast.
• Oct 24, 1956: AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year
• Oct 25, 1956: White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him
• Oct 26, 1956: Vietnam promulgates its constitution.
• Oct 28, 1956: Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus
• Oct 29, 1956: Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
• Oct 30, 1956: Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961
• Oct 31, 1956: 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole - Rear Admiral GJ Dufek
• Nov 1, 1956: Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen
• Nov 2, 1956: Israel captures Gaza and Sheham.
• Nov 3, 1956: Wizard of Oz 1st televised (CBS-TV)
• Nov 4, 1956: 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest
• Nov 5, 1956: Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
• Nov 6, 1956: US President Dwight Eisenhower (Republican) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (Democrat).
• Nov 7, 1956: Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
• Nov 9, 1956: Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St. Louis, to become NWA champ
• Nov 12, 1956: Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, first sighted.
• Nov 13, 1956: US Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses.
• Nov 14, 1956: Hungarian revolt put down
• Nov 15, 1956: Middle East Technical University is founded in Ankara, Turkey.
• Nov 17, 1956: Syracuse fullback Jim Brown, scores NCAA record of 43 pts (vs. Colgate)
• Nov 18, 1956: Morocco gains independence
• Nov 20, 1956: In Yugoslavia, former prime minister Milovan Djilas is arrested after he criticizes Josip Broz Tito.
• Nov 21, 1956: Don Newcombe, wins NL MVP and 1st-ever Cy Young Award
• Nov 22, 1956: 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
• Nov 23, 1956: The Suez Crisis causes petrol rationing in Britain. Motorists panic as petrol rations loom, BBC news
• Nov 24, 1956: Pajama Game closes at St. James Theater NYC after 1063 performances
• Nov 26, 1956: The Price Is Right debuts on NBC
• Nov 28, 1956: Photography begins on ... & God Created Women
• Nov 29, 1956: Bells Are Ringing opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 925 performances
• Nov 30, 1956: 1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards & the News)
• Dec 1, 1956: Candide opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 73 performances
• Dec 2, 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.
• Dec 3, 1956: KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast
• Dec 4, 1956: 22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (quarterback).
• Dec 5, 1956: Rose Heilbron becomes Britain's first female judge.
• Dec 6, 1956: Happy Hunting opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 413 performances
• Dec 8, 1956: 16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia
• Dec 9, 1956: Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810-9, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
• Dec 10, 1956: Establishment of MPLA in Angola.
• Dec 11, 1956: Anti-Russian demonstrations in Stettin and Wroclaw, Poland.
• Dec 12, 1956: Beginning of the Irish Republican Army's ''Border Campaign''.
• Dec 14, 1956: Paul-Henri Spaak is appointed Secretary-General of NATO.
• Dec 15, 1956: KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
• Dec 16, 1956: Fanny closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 888 performances
• Dec 18, 1956: To Tell the Truth debuts on CBS-TV
• Dec 19, 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.
• Dec 20, 1956: Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra.
• Dec 22, 1956: New Faces of 1956 closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 performances
• Dec 23, 1956: British and French troops leave the Suez Canal region.
• Dec 24, 1956: I Love Lucy Christmas show airs, never put in syndication
• Dec 27, 1956: Bill Sharman (Boston) ends NBA free throw streak of 55 games.
• Dec 28, 1956: Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
• Dec 30, 1956: New York Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game.
• Dec 31, 1956: Bob Barker makes his TV debut as host of the game show ''Truth or Consequences''.
• Jan 1, 1956: Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.

The year 1956 refers to a specific year in the Gregorian calendar, which is commonly used internationally. It is the 57th year of the 20th century and the 6th year of the 1950s decade. In the Gregorian calendar, it follows 1955 and precedes 1957.