While the Browns ' on-field play in 1956 was uninspiring, off-the-field drama developed after a Cleveland-based inventor named George Sarles let Brown test a helmet with a radio transmitter inside.

* George Sarton ( 1884 – 1956 )

* 1872 – George Washington Pierce, American physicist ( d. 1956 )

* 1956 – George Burley, Scottish footballer and manager

* Order of St Michael and St George ( UK ), 1956.

Rockne was married to Bonnie Gwendoline Skiles ( December 18, 1891 – June 2, 1956 ), the daughter of George Skiles and Huldah Dry.

Michael George Francis Ventris, OBE ( 12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956 ) was an English architect who, along with John Chadwick and Alice Kober, deciphered Linear B, a previously unknown ancient script discovered at Knossos by Arthur Evans.

Both Davis and Evans were personally acquainted with the ideas of pianist George Russell regarding modal jazz, Davis from discussions with Russell and others before the Birth of the Cool sessions, and Evans from study with Russell in 1956.

Hughes and Plath dated and then were married at St George the Martyr Holborn, on 16 June 1956, four months after they had first met.

* March 20 – George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician ( b. 1956 )

* September 30 – George Bancroft, American Hollywood film actor ( d. 1956 )

George Stevens, 1956 )

Two early examples are the " vapourization " of " unpersons " in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (" He did not exist ; he never existed "); and the reference to the Egyptian practice in the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments, in which the Pharaoh Seti orders the name of Moses be struck from every building and never mentioned by anyone.

* East Norway and its Frontier by Frank Noel Stagg, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 1956

* George McKay ( 2004 ) '" Unsafe things like youth and jazz ": Beaulieu Jazz Festivals ( 1956 – 61 ) and the origins of pop festival culture in Britain '.

By far his biggest hit was the musical My Fair Lady ( 1956 ), adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

Michael Caine's first film role was as one of the privates in George Baker's platoon in the 1956 film A Hill in Korea.

:* 1956 – 1957: Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

:* 1956 – 1957: Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

In 1956, the plot of The Lady Eve was recycled for the movie The Birds and the Bees, starring George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor and David Niven.

The heir presumptive to both earldoms ( but not to the Barony Herbert of Lea, which would become extinct should the Earl die without male issue ) is his eighth cousin George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon ( b. 1956 ), great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of the 8th Earl of Pembroke through his fifth son.

* Elisabeth of Romania ( 1894 – 1956 ), the Queen Consort of King George II of Greece

When ratings soared on The George Gobel Show ( rated in the top ten of 1954-55 ), Paramount promoted Gobel as their new comedy star, casting him as the lead in The Birds and the Bees ( 1956 ), a remake of The Lady Eve ( 1941 ).

Hendon Park Row ( c. 1860s ) is of this period, and consisted of around thirty small dwellings built by a George Stevens, which were, with two exceptions, demolished ( c. 1956 ).

He contributed many notable storylines for all three of them, including Freleng's Hare Do ( 1949 ), Bad Ol ' Putty Tat ( 1949 ), Bunker Hill Bunny ( 1950 ) and Big House Bunny ( 1950 ); Jones ' Hare Tonic ( 1945, an early success for both of them ) and Broom-Stick Bunny ( 1956 ); and McKimson's Hillbilly Hare ( 1950 ), Lovelorn Leghorn ( 1951 ) and Cat-Tails for Two ( 1953 ), the last of which was Speedy Gonzales ' first appearance.

Bunker was paroled in 1956.

He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.

He firmly declined all of the offers and many believed he was foregoing his only opportunity to be president ; Thomas E. Dewey was considered the other probable winner, would presumably serve two terms, and Eisenhower, at age 66 in 1956, would then be too old.

The president also suffered from Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory condition of the intestine, which necessitated surgery for a bowel obstruction on June 9, 1956.

Capital punishment was abolished in 1956, though the last person to be executed was in 1940 ( The current president Porfirio " Pepe " Lobo has tried to bring it back ).

Federal Records president Ralph Bass signed the Famous Flames to his label in February 1956 and had them record the song in Cincinnati's King Studios.

In 1956, Reno enrolled at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she majored in chemistry, became president of the Women's Self-Government Association, and earned her room and board.

* 1872 – Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian president ( d. 1956 )

Kekkonen's policies, especially towards the USSR, were criticised within his own party by Veikko Vennamo, who broke off his Centre Party affiliation when Kekkonen was elected president in 1956.

After returning to the University, Arafat studied civil engineering and served as president of the General Union of Palestinian Students ( GUPS ) from 1952 to 1956.

Following the Suez Crisis in 1956, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, a leader of the Free Officers Movement, agreed to allow the United Nations Emergency Force to establish itself in the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip, causing the expulsion of all guerrilla or " fedayeen " forces there — including Arafat.

* February 23 – Konstantin Päts, Estonian president ( d. 1956 )

The award is named after screen actor Jean Hersholt ( 1886 – 1956 ), who served as president of the Motion Picture Relief Fund for 18 years.

Grover C. Dillman was president from 1935 to 1956.

In 1956, J. Robert Van Pelt became the new president of the university.

He served as the 31st Governor of Illinois, and received the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1952 and 1956 ; both times he was defeated by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Robert Kintner, the network president originally hired by Noble, was forced out by 1956 despite Noble's vigorous objections, as Goldenson and the executives he brought on board eventually took solid command.

Although Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil between 1956 and 1961, visited Israel after his tenure, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was the first Brazilian president to visit Israel while in office, in 2010.

Two children were born of this marriage: his eldest child and daughter, Maria Teresa Samaranch Salisachs ( born 1956 ), has been president of the Spanish Federation of Sports on Ice since 2005, while his youngest child and son, Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs ( born 1959 ), has been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2001.

From November 1953 until November 1956 he was president of the American Red Cross.

Dulles with president Dwight D. Eisenhower | Eisenhower in 1956

His firm had a long association with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, of which he was to become president from 1956 to 1961 He is best known today as the father of Richard Alpert ( Baba Ram Dass ).

In 1952 he founded and led the Ordnance Engineering Corporation, selling the company to Aerojet General Corporation in 1956 and becoming Aerojet's Atlantic Division president.

Leland G. Mims, a Minden businessman, served as a Webster Parish police juror ( the parish governing body ) from 1953 – 1976, president of the jury each year from 1956 – 1973, and president of the Police Jury Association of Louisiana from 1965-1967.