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Significant Events and Personalities of 1956

This quiz tests your knowledge of significant events and notable personalities from the year 1956, covering various fields such as music, aviation, journalism, and more.

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1 May 29 – ________, American singer

2 September 11 – ________, Canadian pilot (b.

3 Win Lyovarin, prize-winning Thai ________

4 ________ – Mark Morris, American choreographer

5 June 8 – ________/Telechron introduces model 7H241 "The Snooz Alarm", first snooze alarm clock ever.

6 ________ – George Bancroft, American actor (b.

7 September 9 – ________ appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.

8 ________, American television journalist (CBS News)

9 ________ – Connie Mack, American baseball executive and manager (b.

10 ________ – Vladimír Godár, Slovak composer

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in their 1956 book Union Democracy, social scientist Seymour Martin Lipset and his colleagues describe how the International Typographical Union once defied Michels' iron law of oligarchy.
  • on January 8, 1956, five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were speared to death after attempting to reach the Huaorani people of Ecuador in "Operation Auca".
  • the British Percival P.74 helicopter project (pictured) was canceled in 1956 because the aircraft was unable to fly.
  • former child actor Richard Eyer, who played the boy who runs "afowl" of the goose in William Wyler's 1956 film Friendly Persuasion, is now an elementary school teacher in Bishop, California.
  • American activist Nelson Cruikshank is considered the most important non-legislator responsible for the enactment of the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance in 1956 and Medicare in 1965.
  • Frank Fulco, a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1956 and 1972, was once honored on his House floor by the government of Italy for his long involvement in Italian American causes.
  • Haridas Mundhra got the Indian government in 1956 to invest $10 million in his sinking firms, a scandal which further exposed the rift between Feroze Gandhi and his wife Indira Gandhi, daughter of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
  • Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, which ran on CBS from 1956–1961, had five spin-off series, the most successful having been Chuck Connors' The Rifleman, which ran on ABC from 1958–1963.
  • 1956 was the first time when a computer was able to play a chess-like game, Los Alamos chess.
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