1956

From Wikipedia

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 - 1956 - 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961

Births

February 11 - Kathleen Beller, actress.
July 9 - Tom Hanks, actor

Deaths

A. A. Milne, Author of Winnie the pooh

Events

Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne Australia
Eindhoven University of Technology founded in Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Hungary attempts to leave the Warsaw Pact and is invaded by the Red Army

Nobel Prizes

Physics - William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain
Chemistry - Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
Medicine - André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W Richards
Literature - Juan Ramón Jiménez
Peace - not awarded

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