* 1956 – Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician

* 1956 – Dominique Blanc, French actress

Claude Piron ( 26 February 1931 – 22 January 2008 ) was a psychologist and a translator for the United Nations ( from Chinese, English, Russian and Spanish into French ) from 1956 to 1961.

In November 1956, Eisenhower forced an end to the combined British, French and Israeli invasion of Egypt in response to the Suez Crisis.

* 1956 – Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French author

* 1956 – Charlélie Couture, French singer and musician

* 1956 – Michel Houellebecq, French writer

* 1956 – Didier Lockwood, French violinist

* In 1956 another crisis struck French colonies, this time in Egypt.

* 1956 – The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa.

* 1956 – Marie Laurencin, French painter ( b. 1883 )

* 1871 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician ( d. 1956 )

In 1956 Nehru had criticised the joint invasion of the Suez Canal by the British, French and Israelis.

Sartre always sympathized with the Left, and supported the French Communist Party ( PCF ) until the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary.

From 1956 onwards Sartre rejected the claims of the PCF to represent the French working classes, objecting to its " authoritarian tendencies ".

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

This movement led the French to establish reformed institutions in 1956 under the Loi Cadre ( Overseas Reform Act ), and Madagascar moved peacefully towards independence.

After a series of setbacks that includes a severe frost in 1956 and several vintages in the 1960s lost to rot, French authorities in Bordeaux banned new plantings of Merlot vines between 1970 and 1975.

* 1956 – Frédéric Dutoit, French politician

The legislation initially stalled in the Congress over the issuance of bonds to finance the project, but the legislative effort was renewed and the law was signed by Ike in June 1956.

That legislation, contained at section 1956 of Title 18 of the United States Code, prohibits individuals from engaging in a financial transaction with proceeds that were generated from certain specific crimes, known as " specified unlawful activities " ( SUAs ).

This prompted some of the first major modern environmental legislation, The Clean Air Act of 1956.

The resulting 1956 legislation created the Highway Trust Fund that accelerated construction of the Interstate Highway System.

The new commission focused on encouraging commercial traffic to the waterways, but with the construction and opening of motorways in 1959 and legislation such as the Clean Air Act 1956 affecting the coal carriers using the waterways, this stance could not be sustained.

Provisions of the 1933 Banking Act that were later repealed or replaced include ( 1 ) Sections 5 ( c ) and 19, which required an owner of more than 50 % of a Federal Reserve System member bank ’ s stock to receive a permit from ( and submit to inspection by ) the Federal Reserve Board to vote that stock ( replaced by the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 ); ( 2 ) Section 8, which established the Federal Open Market Committee ( FOMC ) made up of representatives from each of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks ( replaced by the Federal Reserve Board-dominated FOMC established by the Banking Act of 1935 ); ( 3 ) Section 11 ( b ), which prohibited interest payments on demand deposits ( repealed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 ) and authorized the Federal Reserve Board to limit interest rates on time deposits ( phased out by the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 ), both of which interest limitations were incorporated into Regulation Q, and ( 4 ) Section 12, which prohibited Federal Reserve System member bank loans to their executive officers and required the repayment of outstanding loans ( replaced by the 1935 Banking Act ’ s regulation of such loans and modified by later legislation ).

Environmental legislation since 1952, such as the City of London ( Various Powers ) Act 1954 and the Clean Air Acts of 1956 and 1968, has led to a reduction in air pollution.

In 1956, the Arkansas congressional delegation proposed legislation to make Pea Ridge a national military park.

On July 20, 1956, Congress enacted legislation to accept a donation from the state of Arkansas.

Even before statehood he was writing legislation ( sponsored by other congressional representatives ), such as the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act of 1956.

By contrast, Cramer received little credit from environmentalists although he had drafted the Water Pollution Conrol Act of 1956 and had sponsored legislation to protect alligators, stop beach erosion, dredge harbors, and remove oil spills.

The Act repealed the Sex Offenders Act 1997 in its entirety, and almost all of the Sexual Offences Act 1956, which until then had been the main legislation for sexual offences.

His reputation as a competent Speaker grew until the Pipeline Debate in 1956 in which the government invoked closure repeatedly in an attempt to force legislation through the house and force a vote with a minimum of debate.

The passage of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1947 marked the first comprehensive legislation for the control of water pollution and was followed by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act in 1956.

The defence maintained that Britain never made a formal claim to Pitcairn, and never officially informed the islanders that British legislation, such as the Sexual Offences Act, 1956, was applicable to them.

The Mines and Work Act was a piece of legislation in South Africa, originally passed in 1911 and amended in 1912 and 1926 before undergoing further changes in 1956 and 1959.

Shortly afterwards, Maga became a member of the committees on national education and on justice and legislation, and was named Secretary of the Assemblée on January 25, 1956.

A blank inverted triangle was provided for in legislation applicable between 1956 and 1961.

In the end, a series of four major pieces of legislation were passed in 1955 – 56 and these laws form the first point of reference for modern Hindu law: Hindu Marriage Act ( 1955 ), Hindu Succession Act ( 1956 ), Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act ( 1956 ), and Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act ( 1956 ).

The provisions of the 1956 Act were, in terms of citizenship by birth, retrospective and replaced the provisions of the previous legislation, the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1935.

This Act was primarily concerned with removing various gender discriminatory provisions from the 1956 legislation and thus provided for citizenship by registration for the wives and husbands of Irish citizens.

From 1956 to 1958, a pitcher was not allowed to win the award on more than one occasion ; this rule was eliminated in 1959.

In the 1956 general election, Faubus, having already eliminated Jim Johnson, overwhelmed GOP candidate Roy Mitchell, later the GOP state chairman from Hot Springs, 321, 797 ( 80. 7 %) to 77, 215 ( 19. 4 %).

The colors of the 101st were reactivated as a combat division in 1956 under the Pentomic structure, which eliminated infantry regiments and battalions in favor of five battle groups per division.

The early stories were adapted from the 1956 book and 1957 film of the same name, although some principal character names and occupations were changed or simply eliminated.

Although both nations remained reluctant to fully share their plans — as late as 1956, Britain did not have targeting information even for SAC aircraft it hosted — redundancies were eliminated by one side asking the other whether it planned to attack various targets.

It was created by redistribution in 1956, and eliminated in 1999.

It was created in 1956, and eliminated in 1989.

The following season, 1956, saw the Reds adopt sleeveless jerseys, and Mr. Red was eliminated from the home uniform.

In 1956 the division's colors were transferred, less personnel and equipment, to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, as a combat Airborne division tested for the new Pentomic division concept, which eliminated the three infantry regiments and their subordinate battalions in favor of five battle groups.