** Nikolay Sidorov, Soviet athlete

** Internal Security Directorate – chiefs: Alexander Kupryazhkin ( until September 2006 ), Sergei Shishin ( before Kupryazhkin since December 2002 ), Sergei Smirnov ( April 1999 – December 2002 ), Viktor Ivanov ( 1998 – Aril 1999 ), Nikolay Patrushev ( 1994 – 1998 )

** Chemistry-Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov

** Second Round – Defeated Nikolay Kulpin ( EUN ), RSC-3

** Naima Mora, winner of America's Next Top Model cycle 4

** Jim Dwyer, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner

** Tom Sneva, American former race car driver and Indianapolis 500 winner

** George S. Rentz, United States Navy Chaplain and Navy Cross winner ( b. 1882 )

** The Ultimate Warrior defeats Hulk Hogan to win the WWF Championship in a Title for Title, winner takes all match at WrestleMania VI in front of nearly 68, 000 at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario

** Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize winner ( b. 1913 )

** Arsenal FC wins the English Division 1 football league championship at the home of their bitter rivals, Tottenham Hotspur, with Ray Kennedy scoring the winner.

** Ty Detmer, American NFL quarterback and 1990 Heisman Trophy winner

** Ruffian, an American champion thoroughbred racehorse breaks down in a match race against Kentucky Derby winner, Foolish Pleasure.

** Bruce Catton, American Civil War historian, Pulizer Prize winner ( 1954 ) ( b. 1899 )

** Indianapolis 500: In what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history, 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0. 16 seconds, the closest finish to that date, after Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps.

** David Cook, American singer / songwriter and winner of American Idol season 7

** Riyo Mori, Japanese Miss Universe 2007 winner

** Scott O ' Dell, children's writer and winner of 5 Newbery Awards ( b. 1898 )

** James Moore, winner of the first ever cycle race ( b. 1849 )

** The Wandering Fire ( 1986 ), winner of the 1987 Aurora Award.

** Hugo Award winner, Locus Award nominee, 1972

** When it came time to reveal the winner of the 2008 season it was revealed that the jury vote was tied at 3-3.

** Xie Shaoguang 謝韶光 / 谢韶光 ( 1960 -; born in Singapore ; Hakka pronunciation: Cia Sheu Guong ), Actor ; Best Actor, Asian Television Awards, 1998 ; Five-time winner of Singapore's best television actor award

** Felicia Chin 陳靚瑄 / 陈靓瑄 ( 1984 -; born in Singapore ; Hakka pronunciation: Chin Ciang Sian ), Actress ; Female winner, Star Search, 2003 ; Member of the Singapore national softball team at the age of 15

** Wendy Setiawan ( 1973 -; born in Indonesia ), Cover Girl first winner, 1989, Mode Magazine

** The Calder Cup, awarded to the winner of the American Hockey League playoffs

** Rich Mullins and " Leave a Legacy " contest winner, 76-year-old Miguel Garcia Massiate, travel to Bogotá, Colombia with Compassion International.

** 1992 – " Cliffs Of Dover " – ( Ah Via Musicom ) – Grammy – winner – Best Rock Instrumental Performance

** United States Army Medical Unit ( 1956 – 69 )

** Aniara by Harry Martinson ( composed 1956 )

** Spingold ( 5 ) 1943, 1947, 1951, 1956, 1960

** 29 October 1955 – 10 January 1956 Heinrich Welsch ( b. 1888 – d. 1976 ), Non-party

** 10 January 1956 – 4 June 1957 Hubert Ney ( b. 1892 – d. 1984 ), CDU

** 102. nobelium, No, named after Alfred Nobel ( 1956 ).

** Suez Crisis ( 1956 ) – The Suez Crisis was a war fought on Egyptian territory in 1956.

** Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula ( captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956 ).

** Ray Combs, American game show host, and comedian ( b. 1956 )

** Abdullah Çatlı, Turkish nationalist ( b. 1956 )

** MGM's classic film The Wizard of Oz makes its NBC debut after being telecast on CBS since 1956.

** Andreas Floer, German mathematician ( b. 1956 )

** Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist, poet, and novelist ( d. 1956 )

** Hugh Trenchard, British military aviation pioneer ( d. 1956 )

** Isham Jones, American jazz musician ( d. 1956 )

** Alfred Kinsey, American sexologist ( d. 1956 )

** Paul Rostock, German surgeon ( d. 1956 )

** Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter ( d. 1956 )

** Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany ( d. 1956 )

** Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer ( b. 1956 )

** Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia ( b. 1956 )

** Democrat ( 1954 – April 1956 and November 1956 – September 1964 )

** Związek Młodzieży Polskiej ( Poland ), after 1956 Związek Młodzieży Socjalistycznej, after 1976 Polish Socialist Youth Union