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In the United States, the 1956 Rose Bowl college football game was won by the Michigan State Spartans, who defeated the UCLA Bruins by 17–14, with Walt Kowalczyk being given the award for best player. [10] Bill Hartack, future Hall of Fame jockey who won 417 races in 1955, started 1956 by riding four winners at Tropical Park.
1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1956th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 956th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1950s decade.
Monument in memory of the 11 January 1944 proclamation in Salé, Morocco.. The Proclamation of Independence of Morocco (Arabic: وثيقة الاستقلال, French: Manifeste de l'Indépendance du Maroc), also translated as the Manifesto of Independence of Morocco or Proclamation of January 11, 1944, is a document in which Moroccan nationalists called for the independence of Morocco in its ...
11 January. President Diem issued Ordinance Number 6 which permitted the imprisonment of communists and others "dangerous to national defense and common security". [4] Diem's anti-communist repression reduced communist party membership in South Vietnam by about two-thirds between 1955 and 1959, but the repression also alienated many non-communists.
Die da (Chinese: 跌打; pinyin: diē dǎ; Jyutping: dit 3 daa 2; lit. 'fall [and] hit') or dit da is a traditional Chinese medicine discipline of used to treating trauma and injuries such as bone fractures, sprains, and bruises. Methods including bone-setting and occasional use of topical preparations such as the dit da jow.
The Poujadists won 51 seats versus predictions of six to eight, including a young Jean-Marie Le Pen, [4] and the press stated that they held the balance of power. Media reception was mixed, with the result welcomed by communist supporters and condemned by papers such as The Times , Le Figaro , [ 5 ] and The Saturday Evening Post .
In 1956, Italian cinema was in a phase of transition. Auteur and socially engaged cinema is almost limited to only two titles: The roof , by Vittorio De Sica , considered the last neorealist film, and The railroad man , a family drama directed and interpreted by Pietro Germi .
11 April – Shafir shooting attack: Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated into Israel, entered a synagogue in the village Shafir and open fire at 46 children aged 9–16. Three children and an instructor were killed in the incident. Five children were injured, three of them in serious condition.