1956

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Hit Songs 5 New Books 6 Films Released

[edit] Events

• The Olympic Games are in Melbourne, Australia.
• Bette Nesmith Graham, creates what later becomes liquid paper.

[edit] Births

• January 3 - Mel Gibson, American actor
• July 9 - Tom Hanks, American actor
• August 31 - Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
• Danny Boyle, British fim director

[edit] Deaths

• January 3 - Alexander Grechaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
• January 5 - Mistinguett, French singer
• January 13 - Lyonel Charles Feininger, German painter
• January 24 - Sir Alexander Korda, Hungarian-born film director
• January 27 - Erich Kleiber, German conductor (b. 1890)
• January 29 - H. L. Mencken
• January 31 - A. A. Milne, English author
• February 2 - Charley Grapewin, American actor
• February 8 - Connie Mack, baseball executive and manager
• February 18 - Gustave Charpentier, French composer
• March 17 - Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1897)
• March 20 - Fanny Durack, Australian swimmer
• March 25 - Robert Newton, English film actor
• March 30 - Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English inventor
• March 30 - Fritz Lehmann, German conductor
• March 31 - Ralph DePalma, race car driver (b. 1884)
• April 30 - Alben W Barkly, Vice-President of the United States
• August 11- Jackson Pollack, American painter

[edit] Hit Songs

• Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
• I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

[edit] New Books

• Boon Island - Kenneth Roberts
• Boy in Darkness - Mervyn Peake
• Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz
• A Certain Smile - Françoise Sagan
• Diamonds Are Forever - Ian Fleming
• Don't Go Near the Water - William Brinkley
• Eloise - Kay Thompson
• The Fall (La Chute) - Albert Camus
• Heike Story - Eiji Yoshikawa
• The Last Battle - C. S. Lewis
• The Last Hurrah - Edwin O'Connor
• The Last of the Wine - Mary Renault
• Lucy Crown - Irwin Shaw
• The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir
• Minority Report - Philip K. Dick
• Misty of Chincoteague - Marguerite Henry
• The Mysterious North - Pierre Berton
• The Naked Sun - Isaac Asimov
• The Nun's Story - Kathryn Hulme
• Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz
• Peyton Place - Grace Metalious
• Les racines du ciel - Romain Gary
• Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
• The Sweet Science - A. J. Liebling
• Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold - C. S. Lewis
• The Tribe That Lost Its Head - Nicholas Monsarrat
• The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster - Norman Mailer
• The Wizard of Linn - A. E. van Vogt

[edit] Films Released

• The Ten Commandments