However, Presley became too big a name to ignore, and Sullivan scheduled him to appear on September 9, 1956.

* 1903 – Francis L. Sullivan, English actor ( d. 1956 )

* 1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.

* Maxine Sullivan, A Tribute to Andy Razaf, 1956, produced by Leonard Feather, re-issued in 2006 as My Memories of You with two additional non-Razaf tracks.

Laughton was the fill-in host on 9 September 1956, when Elvis Presley made his first of three appearances on CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show, which garnered 72 million viewers ( Ed Sullivan was recuperating from a car accident ).

On September 9, 1956, Presley made his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show ( after earlier appearances on shows hosted by the Dorsey Brothers, Milton Berle, and Steve Allen ) even though Sullivan had previously vowed never to allow Presley on the show.

* Francis A. Sullivan, influential Jesuit theologian ( graduated 1956 ; Professor of Ecclesiology, 1956 – 1992 )

Fred Allen ( born John Florence Sullivan ; May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956 ) was an American comedian whose absurdist, topically pointed radio show ( 1932 – 1949 ) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio.

He would later tell an interviewer that, " watching Elvis Presley's October 28, 1956, performance on The Ed Sullivan Show was the starting point for me becoming a guitar player ...

In 1956, Shir-Cliff edited a humor anthology, The Wild Reader, for Ballantine, including essays, poems and satirical pieces by Robert Benchley, Art Buchwald, Tom Lehrer, John Lardner, Shepherd Mead, Ogden Nash, S. J. Perelman, Frank Sullivan, James Thurber and others.

* Michael J. Sullivan ( mayor ) ( born 1956 ), mayor of Lawrence, MA

Ed Sullivan saw him and gave Holbrook his first national exposure on his February 12, 1956, show.

She would, however, make occasional appearances on television, including mystery guest appearances for What's My Line ?, The Ed Sullivan Show and two aqua-specials, The Esther Williams Aqua Spectacle in 1956 and Esther Williams at Cypress Gardens on August 8, 1960.

* Senator Hon Neil O ' Sullivan: Minister for the Navy ( to 24 October 1956 ), Attorney-General ( from 15 August 1956 ).

In 1954 Szarkowski received the first of two Guggenheim Fellowships, resulting in the book The Idea of Louis Sullivan ( 1956 ).

* The Idea of Louis Sullivan ( 1956 )

* On June 2, 1956, CBS broadcast a televised version of Hersey's story, starring Barry Sullivan and Anna Maria Alberghetti and directed by Paul Nickell, and on November 15, 1967, The Hallmark Hall of Fame broadcast a version starring John Forsythe and Murray Hamilton and directed by Mel Ferrer.

Apart from his many appearances on Broadway in Gilbert and Sullivan roles up to 1952, his Broadway appearances in the 1950s include Chang in Shangri-La ( 1956 ), Lionel Croy in Child of Fortune ( 1956 ), and Kreton in A Visit to a Small Planet, by Gore Vidal ( 1957-58 ).

Sullivan finished his task in 1955, but since his dissertation, The Christology of Theodore of Mopsuestia, was not published until 1956, that is the date his degree was actually awarded.

The bombers, whose names all started with the letter " V " and which were known collectively as the V-class, were the Vickers Valiant ( first flew 1951, entered service 1955 ), Avro Vulcan ( first flew 1952, in service 1956 ) and Handley Page Victor ( first flew 1952, in service 1958 ).

In April 1956, Abbas flew to Cairo, where he formally joined the FLN.

* James Floyd Smith ( 1884 – 1956 ), who built and flew his own plane in 1912 and invented the free-type manually operated parachute for the Army in 1918.

The Thunderbirds flew F-84F Thunderstreaks in the 1955 and 1956 seasons.

On 28 September 1956 he flew to Paris with Moshe Dayan, Shimon Peres and Golda Meir where they had meetings with French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau.

During the 1950s, the 8th flew the F-86 Sabre for air defense of Japan and South Korea, being upgraded to the new F-100 Super Sabre in 1956.

Together with Khrushchev, he flew to the island of Brioni ( Yugoslavia ) on the night of 1 – 2 November 1956 to inform Josip Broz Tito of the impending Soviet invasion of Hungary scheduled for November 4.

A similar event occurred while he flew near Chicago in 1956, though no sanctions were imposed.

Sultan bin Salman ( ( born 27 June 1956 ) is a former Royal Saudi Air Force pilot who flew aboard the STS-51-G Space Shuttle mission as a payload specialist, and a member of House of Saud.

Once restored, it will wear the colors of fighter squadron VF-61, which flew from Intrepid in 1956.

BarLant began operations on 1 July 1956, and flew continuous coverage until early 1965, when the barrier was shifted to cover the approaches between Greenland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom ( GIUK barrier ).

Jay Clark Buckey, Jr. ( born June 6, 1956, in New York City ) is an American physician and astronaut who flew aboard one space shuttle mission ( STS-90 ) as a Payload Specialist.

The Magister first flew in 1952 with deliveries beginning in 1956

* Convair B-58 Hustler, an American supersonic jet bomber which first flew in 1956

The 17th Bomb Wing flew B-57s in 1956 and 1957, however the aircraft was troublesome and unreliable, and was retired from the inventory quickly.

Also in 1956, the squadron flew night bombing raids against Egyptian airfields from their base at Hal Far, Malta during the Suez crisis.

The first Canadian-built Tracker flew on 31 May 1956.

After having done several more recording sessions in New York with Scotty, Bill, and D. J., Presley flew to Nashville on April 14, 1956, to record " I Want You, I Need You, I Love You ".

In 1956, along with the CIA's Richard Bissell, he flew to Bonn, to brief the West German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, on the U-2 program.

Starting from 1956 early warning coverage was extended across Western Europe using eighteen radar stations.

The beginning of major migration to Europe began during the colonial era ( 1912 to 1956 ).

Between 1950 and 1956, Saarland was a member of the Council of Europe.

* In Europe, the winters of early 1947, February 1956, 1962 – 1963, 1981 – 1982 and 2009 – 2010 were abnormally cold.

The 40-minute civil ceremony took place in the Palace Throne Room of Monaco on April 18, 1956, and was broadcast across Europe.

Emigration from the region's depressed areas to northern Italy and the rest of Europe was very intense in the years between 1956 and 1971.

In Europe, Leo Baeck College had ordained 30 female rabbis by 2006 ( out of 158 ordinations in total since 1956 ), starting with Jackie Tabick in 1975.

In 1956 Gimbutas introduced her Kurgan hypothesis, which combined archaeological study of the distinctive Kurgan burial mounds with linguistics to unravel some problems in the study of the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ) speaking peoples, whom she dubbed the " Kurgans "; namely, to account for their origin and to trace their migrations into Europe.

Bubble cars became popular in Europe at that time as a demand for cheap personal motorised transport emerged and fuel prices were high due in part to the 1956 Suez Crisis.

The 1956 Games were the first to be staged in the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the first to be held outside Europe and North America.

In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and rock artist George Harrison of The Beatles.

After returning to work in Europe, Renoir made a trilogy of color musical comedies on the subjects of theater, politics and commerce: Le Carrosse d ' or ( The Golden Coach ) ( 1953 ) with Anna Magnani, French Cancan ( 1955 ) with Jean Gabin and María Félix and Eléna et les hommes ( Elena and Her Men, 1956 ) with Ingrid Bergman and Jean Marais.

After the war, as a four-star general, he served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe ( SACEUR ) from 1953 to 1956.

During a trip to Europe in 1956 with her children Barbara and Kenneth, Ruth Handler came across a German toy doll called Bild Lilli.

The years 1956, 1957, and 1959 also found the ensemble touring Europe, where the popularity of jazz had skyrocketed.

In the winter of 1956 – 57, Scott and Helen Nearing toured Canada, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, generating a book about their experiences called Socialists Around the World.

It was the first Winter Olympics to be held outside Europe and North America, and only the 3rd game ( summer or winter ) held outside those regions over all, after Melbourne ( 1956 Summer Olympics ) and Tokyo ( 1964 Summer Olympics ).

* Darby, H. C. ( 1956 ) The clearing of the woodland of Europe.

He toured worldwide to Africa, South America, the Pacific region and across Europe into early 1956.

As those of most of the rest of Europe, the railways of East as well as West Germany moved to a two-class system in 1956.

Beginning with that journey to India undertaken in 1956, at the age of 24, without any foreign-language skills ( he is said to have learned English only afterwards – by reading, with the help of a dictionary, a copy of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls ), he travelled across the developing world, at first producing " essays in frustration and ignorance " ( in the words of Colin Thubron ), though later reporting more knowledgeably on wars, coups and revolutions in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas

The European royalties from another Cheers record, " Bazoom ( I Need Your Lovin ')", funded a 1956 trip to Europe for Stoller and his first wife, Meryl, on which they met Piaf.

* I Love Lucy episode titled Staten Island Ferry ( season 5, 1956 )-As the Ricardos and the Mertzes prepare for their ocean voyage to Europe, Fred Mertz ( William Frawley ) struggles gamely but vainly to overcome his chronic seasickness.

In 1956 Butlins Beaver Club – with Uncle Eric Winstrone was heard in the United Kingdom and much of continental Europe on Sunday nights at 6: 00 pm over the 208 m wavelength of Radio Luxembourg.