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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.
October 17 – The Game of the Century: 13-year-old Bobby Fischer beats GM Donald Byrne in the NY Rosenwald chess tournament. October 29 – The Huntley-Brinkley Report debuts on NBC -TV. October 31 – A U.S. Navy team becomes the third group to reach the South Pole (arriving by air) and commences construction of the first permanent Amundsen ...
This is a list of calendars.Included are historical calendars as well as proposed ones. Historical calendars are often grouped into larger categories by cultural sphere or historical period; thus O'Neil (1976) distinguishes the groupings Egyptian calendars (Ancient Egypt), Babylonian calendars (Ancient Mesopotamia), Indian calendars (Hindu and Buddhist traditions of the Indian subcontinent ...
Elvis Presley had five songs on the year-end top 50, the most of any artist in 1956, including "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Don't Be Cruel", the top two songs of the year. The Platters had three songs on the year-end top 50. This is a list of Billboard magazine's top 50 singles of 1956 according to retail sales. [1]
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This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1956 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
March 1956 was the third month of that leap year. The month which began on a Thursday and ended after 31 days on a Saturday ... The editor claims that the paper lost ...
Events from the year 1956 in the United Kingdom. The year is dominated by the Suez Crisis. Incumbents. Monarch – Elizabeth II;