Year 1956 in History - Important Historical Events of the year 1956

The year 1956 has a special significance of its own in India and world history. Let us know some such important events of the year 1956 such as: born famous people, death of famous people, war treaty, independence of a country, invention of new technology, change of power, important national and international day etc., knowing which your general Knowledge will increase.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
01 May
13 June	After 72 years of control, Britain handed over control of the Suez Canal to Egypt.
23 June	Jamal Abdul Nasir was elected President of Egypt.
20 July	France declared Tunisia as an independent country.
26 July	Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal.
02 September	125 people died due to the collapse of a bridge between Jadcherala and Mehboob Nagar, 100 km from Hyderabad.
13 September	IBM released 305 Remake, the first commercial computer with disk storage.
17 September	First aired on television in Australia.
25 September	The first telephone service between the US and Europe began.
04 October	Great Britain conducted a nuclear test in Australia.
14 October	Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar accepted Buddhism in Nagpur with 3,85,000 followers.
17 October	The first major nuclear power station started in England.
19 October	Russia and Japan signed and officially ended the 1945 war between the two countries.
01 November	The state of Madhya Pradesh was formed on the basis of language.
01 November	The capital of the country, Delhi became a union territory.
12 November	Zionist regime troops attacked a refugee camp in Rafah Nagar in the Gaza Strip and massacred Palestinians. 110 Palestinian martyrs and about 1 thousand people were injured in this ruthless massacre.
18 November	Morocco gained independence.
13 August	The bill was passed in the National Highways Lok Sabha.
02 December	Cuban leader Fidel Castro launched a movement to liberate his country.
06 December	Bahujan political leader and constitution builder Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar died.
20 December	Afro-American woman Rosa Parks' fight against color discrimination in America paid off. Due to which the Supreme Court banned apartheid in buses.
22 December	Britain and France left the port and withdrew their forces from Egypt after continuing to occupy Egypt's port of port Said for 50 days.
24 December	Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor was born.
03 January	The fire on the upper part of the Eiffel Tower in France caused damage.
27 February	The first speaker of the Lok Sabha was G. V. Mavalankar died.
27 February	Women got the right to vote in Egypt.
23 March	Pakistan became the first Islamic Republic country in the world.
01 April	The polio vaccine developed by American medical researcher and virologist Jonas Salk was made available to the public.
30 April	Former US Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley's death during a speech in Virginia.
26 January	The Winter Olympics began in the city of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
22 February	Elvis Presley entered the United States Music Chart for the first time at the "Heartbreak Hotel".
02 March	Morocco declared independence of France.
19 April	American actress Grace Kelly married Rainier III to Prince Monaco.
08 May	Austria and Israel enhanced diplomatic relations.
13 June	International Criminal Police Organization ICPO) was formed.
10 July	The British House of Lords abolished capital punishment.
17 August	Germany banned the Communist Party.
16 September	Television broadcasting began in Australia.
10 October	The Summer Olympics began in Melbourne Australia.
15 November	Middle East Technical University was established in Ankara, Turkey.
05 December	Rose Heilbronn became Britain's first female judge.
08 January	Five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were killed by the Huaorani in the rainforest of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
25 February	In his speech 'On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences'to the 20th Party Congress, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denouncedthe personality cult and dictatorship of his predecessor Joseph Stalin.
01 March	The NATO phonetic alphabet, today the most widely used spelling alphabet, was first implemented by the International Civil Aviation Organization.
09 March	In Tbilisi, Georgia, Soviet military troops suppressed massdemonstrations against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
07 April	Spain left its protector in Morocco.
13 April	The Vietnamese National Army captured Baal Cut, the military commander of the Hoa Hao Religious Sect, who was running a real kingdom in southern Vietnam in protest against Prime Minister Nego Dinh Dim.
01 May	On 1 May 1956, a doctor in Japan reported "an epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", which was an official discovery of Minmata Disease. Minmata diseases are caused by four major pollution of Japan, which is due to the release of methylarcurry in the industry wastewater from the Chiso Corporation.
01 May	In Japan, a doctor reported an epidemic of an epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system, which was an official discovery of Minmata Disease.
09 May	The war reform and peace agreement between the Philippines and Japan was signed between the Philippines and Japan on 9 May 1956 between the Philippines and Japan, ending the long -standing dispute between the Philippines and Japan.
18 May	Lhotse's main peak was first climbed by a Swiss team of Ernst Rees and Fritz Luchinger on 18 May 1956. It is the fourth highest mountain in the world which is 8,516 meters and is situated on the border of Tibet and Nepal.
20 May	The first United States airborne test of hydrogen bomb was conducted on May 20, 1956 over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
24 May	The first version of the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lalugano, Switzerland.
11 June	The first ethnic riots to target the six -day gall Oya riots, the then Sri Lanka Tamils in independent Sri Lanka began, as a result of at least 150 deaths and 100inj injuries.
23 June	Gamal Abdel Nasar became the President of Egypt, a post he maintained till his death in 1970.
28 June	Workers seeking better situation staged a massive protest in Pona, Poland, but the next day 400 tanks and Polish People's Army and 000 soldiers of internal security core were violent suppression.
06 August	Dumont is one of the world's first television network, which broadcast its program.
08 August	262 miners were killed due to a coal fire in Marsinel, Belgium.
17 September	Norman Bakle has broken the world water speed record in its motorboat, called Miss Windermear III. He organized an average speed of more than 79mph on Lake Windermier.
17 October	Queen Elizabeth II formally inaugurated the Sela Maidan Nuclear Power Station today. However, the power station was working on the National Grid from 27 August 191956 and providing electricity.
23 October	Thousands of people took to the streets in Budapest, Hungary, demanding the end of Soviet rule.
23 October	The Hungarian Revolution began as a peaceful student demonstration, attracted thousands of people as it reached the Parliament House from the Central Building.
31 October	Following the Egyptian decision on the nationalization of the Suez Canal, Britain and France started bombing Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal.
03 November	Amidst the Suez Crisis, during an invasion of Gazastrip, Israeli soldiers shot and killed hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local residents at Khan Unis.
02 December	Cuba Revolution-Fidel Castro, Che Guera and 80 other members of the July 26 movement reached the border of Granma, Cuba.
06 December	At the Melbourne Olympics, 14 -year -old swimmer Sandra Morganbeck won the Olympic gold medal winning Australian player.
19 December	Irish -born British physician John Bodkin Adams was arrested for indifference with suspicious deaths of his more than 160 patients, although he was only convicted on minor allegations.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
01 September	Tripura was made a union territory after the reorganization of Indian states.
01 September	India's largest life insurance company "Life Insurance Corporation of India LIC)" was established.
17 September	The Indian Oil and Natural Gas Commission was formed.
30 October	India's first five-star hotel 'Ashoka' opened.
28 November	Chinese Prime Minister Chou En-lai visited India.
14 August	Indian comedian Johnny Lever was born.
18 August	Indian cricketer Sandeep Patil was born in Mumbai. He scored 1588 runs in 29 Test matches.
31 August	The then President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad approved the State Reorganization Bill.

Birth	Name/Category/Country
24 May	Bachendri Pal / Mountaineer / India
25 July	Frances Arnold / Scientist / United States of america
20 December	Fahmida Mirza / Politician / Pakistan
31 August	Tsai Ing Wen / Politician / Taiwan
15 January	Mayawati / Politician / India
02 August	Vijay Rupani / Politician / India
03 August	Balwinder Sandhu / Cricketer / India
03 September	Jishu Dasgupta / Actor / India
04 July	Laxmikant Parsekar / Politician / India
04 January	Sarojini Sahoo / Author / India
06 July	Anil Madhav Dave / Politician / India
06 April	Dilip Vengsarkar / Cricketer / India
07 June	Tiku Talsania / Actor / India
09 March	Shashi Tharoor / Politician / India
10 July	Alok Nath / Actor / India
10 October	Gajendra Chauhan / Actor / India
10 August	Perween Warsi / Business Woman / India
15 January	Mayawati / Politician / India
18 March	Arundhati Bhattacharya / Banker / India
18 August	Sandeep Patil / Cricketer / India
19 April	Mukesh Rishi / Actor / India
20 February	Annu Kapoor / Actor / India
21 September	Prabuddha Dasgupta / Photographer / India
22 November	Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha / Bishop / India
24 December	Anil Kapoor / Actor / India

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