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1956. Who is 1956? What is 1956? Where is 1956? Definition of 1956. Meaning of 1956. (919 words) |
 | October 31 - Suez Crisis : The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal. |
 | November 4 - 1956 Hungarian Revolution : Soviet troops invade Hungary to crush a revolt that started on October 23. |
 | November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1956 : Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower is reelected by defeating Democrat challenger Adlai E. Stevenson in a rematch of their contest four years earlier. |
| Encyclopedia: 1956 (9983 words) |
 | Kuwata Keisuke (桑田佳祐, born February 26, 1956) is the musician of a Chigasaki, Kanagawa graduate of Japan, and a singer-songwriter. |
 | Lars von Trier (born April 30, 1956 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. |
 | Phillip Donald Bissett (born September 11, 1956) is an American politician and a Republican candidate for Anne Arundel County Executive in the 2006 elections. |