1956

1955 - 1956 - 1957 - decade 1950s - 20th century

Births

• February 11 - [Kathleen Beller]?, actress.

Deaths

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