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1956 in various calendars. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1956. 1956 ( MCMLVI) 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.
March 10, 1956 (Saturday) A Fairey Delta 2 research aircraft, developed by the Fairey Aviation Company, breaks the World Air Speed Record, achieving a speed of 1,132 mph (1,822 km/h) as 300 mph (480 km/h) over the previous record. It becomes the first aircraft to exceed 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h) in level flight, with permission, but no active ...
Jack Crenshaw, attorney. James F. Blake, bus driver. The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States.
April 14 – Videotape is first demonstrated at the 1956 NARTB (now NAB) convention in Chicago by Ampex. It is the demonstration of the first practical and commercially successful videotape format known as 2" Quadruplex. April 19 – American actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. April 21 – Former U.S.
The Suez Crisis[ a ] or the Second Arab–Israeli War, [ 8 ][ 9 ][ 10 ] also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression[ b ] in the Arab world [ 11 ] and as the Sinai War[ c ] in Israel, [ d ] was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956. Israel invaded on 29 October, having done so with the primary objective of re-opening the ...
France completed its military withdrawal from Vietnam. The United States expanded the number of its military advisers in South Vietnam. The first American killed in the Vietnam War died June 8 at the hand of another American soldier. In 1956 the term Viet Cong came into use and gradually replaced the older term Viet Minh.
March 6: The Soviet Union installs a puppet government in Romania. [2] March 7: Josip Broz Tito is installed as the head of the provisional government of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia. [3] March–April: U.S. and Britain outraged as Stalin excludes them from a role in Poland and turns Poland over to a Communist puppet government he controls. [4]
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of ...