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1956 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2040. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1956 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1956
- January 8, 1956 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
- January 28, 1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first US television appearance
- February 12, 1956 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- April 26, 1956 – SS Ideal X, the world’s first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
- May 1, 1956 – The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
- June 30, 1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.
- July 25, 1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
- October 8, 1956 – New York Yankees’s Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series.
- October 17, 1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
Who Were Born On 1956?
- January 1, 1956 – Sergei Avdeyev, Russian engineer and astronaut
- January 10, 1956 – Shawn Colvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- February 6, 1956 – Jon Walmsley, English-American singer-songwriter and actor
- March 3, 1956 – Zbigniew Boniek, Polish footballer and manager
- July 11, 1956 – Robin Renucci, French actor and director
- September 1, 1956 – Philece Sampler, American actress
- October 20, 1956 – Danny Boyle, English director, producer, and screenwriter
- November 14, 1956 – Babette Babich, American philosopher, author, and scholar
- November 16, 1956 – Terry Labonte, American race car driver
- November 23, 1956 – Shane Gould, Australian swimmer and coach