The United States Naval Observatory began the A. 1 scale 13 September 1956, using an Atomichron commercial atomic clock, followed by the NBS-A scale at the National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, Colorado.

* Adrian Dantley ( born 1956 ), American retired National Basketball Association ( NBA ) player

Aberdare, during its boom years, was considered a centre of Welsh culture: it hosted the first National Eisteddfod in 1861, again in 1885, and in 1956 at Aberdare Park where the Gorsedd standing stones still exist.

Bernard Allan Federko ( born May 12, 1956 ) is a retired professional ice hockey centre who played fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League from 1976 through 1990.

* National People's Army ( 1956 – 1990 ), armed forces of the former German Democratic Republic

* First Jewish player elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, in 1956.

He was appointed to the prestigious portfolios of Minister for Labour and National Service ( 1949 – 1958 ; he had previously served in this portfolio 1940 – 41 ) and Minister for Immigration ( 1949 – 1956 ), by which time he was being touted in the press as a " certain successor to Menzies and a potential Prime Minister ".

* 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.

Amongst these measures included the universalization of old-age pensions for all Canadians aged seventy and above ( 1951 ), the introduction of old age assistance for needy Canadians aged sixty-five and above ( 1951 ), the introduction of allowances for the blind ( 1951 ) and the disabled ( 1954 ), amendments to the National Housing Act ( 1954 ) which provided federal government financing to non-profit organisations as well as the provinces for the renovation or construction of hostels or housing for students, the disabled, the elderly, and families on low incomes, and unemployment assistance ( 1956 ) for unemployed employables on welfare who had exhausted ( or did not qualify for ) unemployment insurance benefits.

* 1956 – Formation of the National People's Army

Luis Somoza Debayle became President ( 29 September 1956 to 1 May 1963 ), and was effectively dictator of the country until his death, but his brother Anastasio Somoza Debayle held great power as head of the National Guard.

The 1956 General Elections saw the emergence of the People's National Movement under the leadership of Eric Williams.

It was part of the National People's Army, established in 1956.

On 1 March 1956, the GDR formally created its Nationale Volksarmee ( NVA ) ( National People's Army ), and the VP-See became the Verwaltung Seestreitkräfte der NVA ( Maritime Forces Administration of the NVA ) with about 10, 000 men.

On April 5, 1956, the hundredth anniversary of Washington's birth, the house where he was born in Franklin County, Virginia, was designated as the Booker T. Washington National Monument.

He remained an extra year at Oxford studying graduate-level statistics, and following his National Service in the Royal Navy ( 1956 – 1958 ).

Renfrew was educated at St Albans School, Hertfordshire ( where one of the houses is named after him ) and from 1956 to 1958 did National Service in the Royal Air Force.

In between these two presidential bids, Senator Humphrey was part of the free-for-all for the vice-presidential nomination at the 1956 Democratic National Convention, where he received 134 votes on the first ballot and 74 on the second.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff was officially established under Title II, Section 211 of the original National Security Act of 1947 before Sections 209 – 214 of Title II were repealed by the law enacting Title 10 and Title 32, United States Code ( Act of August 10, 1956, 70A Stat.

Her distinctive colours of blue with buff stripes were carried by horses such as Special Cargo, the winner of the 1984 Whitbread Gold Cup, and Devon Loch, which spectacularly halted just short of the winning post at the 1956 Grand National and whose jockey Dick Francis later had a successful career as the writer of racing-themed detective stories.

Administration of the park was conducted from neighboring Zion Canyon National Park until 1956, when Bryce Canyon's first superintendent started work.

The National Water Carrier Project was begun in 1956 and completed in 1964 ; it combined all previous water projects and delivered water to the dry Mitzpe Ramon in the south.

In the United States, beginning in 1956, Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly called the Interstate Highway System was built.

In Paris in 1956, he was elected to the National Assembly as a member of Pierre Poujade's UDCA populist party.

From that public platform, Williams on January 15, 1956 inaugurated his own political party, the People's National Movement, which would take Trinidad and Tobago into independence in 1962, and dominate its postcolonial politics.

The PROM was invented in 1956 by Wen Tsing Chow, working for the Arma Division of the American Bosch Arma Corporation in Garden City, New York.

For, after leaving the Army in 1956, I spent five years in Graduate School first at Boston College and then at the University of Toronto.

Bohr became a professor at the University of Copenhagen in 1956, and, following his father's death in 1962, succeeded him as director of the Niels Bohr Institute, a position he held until 1970.

Some notable historical groups formed along the way include Colgate University's The Colgate 13 ( 1942 ), Dartmouth College's Aires ( 1946 ), Cornell University's Cayuga's Waiters ( 1949 ) and The Hangovers ( 1968 ), the Columbia University Kingsmen ( 1949 ), the Jabberwocks of Brown University ( 1949 ), and the University of Rochester YellowJackets ( 1956 ).

1945 ), San Diego State College ( M. A., 1952 ) and Columbia University ( Ph. D., 1956 ), and did his doctoral thesis on the Thematic Apperception Test.

From 1956 through 1958, he did his postdoctoral research at the University of London, Institute of Psychiatry.

He attended the University of Chicago, where he participated in the Ryerson Astronomical Society, received a bachelor of arts in self-proclaimed " nothing " with general and special honors in 1954, a bachelor of science in physics in 1955, and a master of science in physics in 1956 before earning a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics in 1960.

In 1956, he received a two-year scholarship for postgraduate training in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States.

* 1956, " Draft statement of a ten-year China and Indochina policy, 1956-1966 ", Foreign Policy Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania

The Eindhoven University of Technology was founded as the Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven ( THE ) on 23 June 1956 by the Dutch government.

Eduardo Blasco Ferrer ( born 1956 ) is a Spanish-Italian linguist, currently a professor at the University of Cagliari, Sardinia.

Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, graduating in 1953, and he received a Ph. D. in Applied Mathematics ( Computer Science ) from Harvard University in 1956.

The Virginia General Assembly passed a resolution in January 1956, establishing a branch college of the University of Virginia in Northern Virginia.

Instructional theory is heavily influenced by the 1956 work of Benjamin Bloom, a University of Chicago professor, and the results of his Taxonomy of Education Objectives — one of the first modern codifications of the learning process.

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.

Perry Miller of Harvard University wrote in 1956:

" She graduated from Battin High School in 1956, then enrolled in Boston University.

Following his graduation in 1956, he enrolled at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C., where he majored in art and graduated with a B. A.

In 1956, Mieczyslaw G. Bekker, a native of Poland and then a professor at the University of Michigan and a consultant to the Land Locomotion Laboratory at the U. S. Army Tank-Automotive Command, published two books on land locomotion.

After he was discharged, in 1956 Foster won a place at the University of Manchester School of Architecture and City Planning.

In 1956, Paul Kuroda of the University of Arkansas postulated that a natural fission reactor may have once existed.

The concept of a natural nuclear reactor was theorized as early as 1956 by Paul Kuroda at the University of Arkansas.

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