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 )

In 1956, George Bunker, the president of the Martin Company, paid a courtesy call on Gen. John Medaris of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency ( ABMA ) at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

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 ).

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

* A Town Like Alice ( 1956 )

Many of his books were filmed, including Lonely Road, Landfall, Pied Piper ( 1942 and 1990 ( as " Crossing to Freedom ")), On the Beach ( in 1959 and also in 2000 ), No Highway ( in 1951 ) and A Town Like Alice ( in 1956 ).

However in 1956 he appeared in two major hits, A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) and The Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 ), which saw exhibitors vote him the seventh most popular British star at the box office ; the following year his ranking went up to third, being the fifth most popular regardless of nationality.

Available in just two body styles, Town Sedan ( 4-door sedan ) and Country Sedan ( 4-door station wagon ), they were powered by Studebaker's V8 with McCulloch supercharger, delivering the same as the 1956 Clipper Custom, although at higher revolutions.

* 1956: Yintian Town, Xiangtan County

Although the team has not achieved county senior football success since 1956, Volunteers (“ the Vols ”) of Wexford Town hold a record eleven county senior titles, as well as six minor titles.

He formed the Civic Trust in 1956 and was its President ; the Royal Institution of British Architects made him an honorary Fellow in 1968, and the Royal Town Planning Institute made him an honorary member.

Bridges garnered press in 1956 for his emotional performance on live anthology program The Alcoa Hour, in an episode titled " Tragedy in a Temporary Town ", directed by Sidney Lumet.

* 1956 — Jack Leonard Shadbolt, Louis Archambault, Harold Town

A 39 year unbroken membership of the league was begun and Caernarfon Town won the championship in 1946 – 47 and 1965 – 66 and finished runners-up in both 1956 – 57 and 1957 – 58 and once again in 1972 – 73.

* A Town Like Alice ( 1956 )

The song originally debuted in a 1955 television production of Our Town, and won an Emmy Award in 1956.

The city expanded through annexation of Takane Village on January 1, 1956 and the Furusawa District of Oyama Town on September 1, 1957.

On September 30, 1956, Fukara Village merged with Susono Town, and on September 1, 1957, Tomioka and Suyama Villages also merged.

The large area of Kokubu Town merged with Kashiwara Town in 1956.

* David Davies ( footballer born 1879 ) ( 1879 – 1956 ), Brecon F. C., Hereford Town F. C.

In 1956, Reclamation combined both Mason City and Engineer's Town to form the city of Coulee Dam.

The novel was adapted to film in 1956 as A Town Like Alice.

He had three more hits in 1956 (" Wild Cherry ", " Ghost Town " and " Namely You "), all backed by orchestra leader Ray Conniff.

*" Ghost Town " ( 1956 )