1956

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961

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Births

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

Deaths

• A. A. Milne, British author

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