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.

* July 12-Michael Ventris, English translator ( died 1956 )

Ventris died in 1956.

That year he began working with Ventris on the progressive decipherment of Linear B, the two writing Documents in Mycenean Greek in 1956, following a controversial first paper three years earlier.

* July 12-Michael Ventris, English co-decipherer of Linear B ( died 1956 ).

* 1956 – Guy Chadwick, English guitarist, vocalist and songwriter ( The House of Love )

# Decides that the United States of America, by the attacks on Nicaraguan territory referred to in subparagraph ( 4 ) hereof, and by declaring a general embargo on trade with Nicaragua on 1 May 1985, has committed acts calculated to deprive of its object and purpose the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Parties signed at Managua on 21 January 1956 ;

Of the fatalities, 53 have resulted from falls ; 65 deaths were attributable to environmental causes, including heat stroke, cardiac arrest, dehydration, and hypothermia ; 7 were caught in flash floods ; 79 were drowned in the Colorado River ; 242 perished in airplane and helicopter crashes ( 128 of them in the 1956 disaster mentioned below ); 25 died in freak errors and accidents, including lightning strikes and rock falls ; 48 committed suicide ; and 23 were the victims of homicides.

By 1956 France had committed more than 400, 000 troops to Algeria.

In September 1970, her pygmalion, lover from 1956 to 1961 and former husband Lucien Morisse, with whom she was still on very good terms, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

He was charged: ‘ That he, being a man, did on diverse dates between January 1961 and 8 June 1963, knowingly live wholly or in part on the earning of prostitution ... contrary to ... the Sexual Offences Act 1956 .’ Other charges of procuring prostitutes followed, and at Marylebone Magistrate's Court he was committed for trial at the Old Bailey, beginning on 22 July.

In 1956, he committed Christian Action to raising funds for the defence of anti-apartheid activists accused of treason in South Africa and this gave rise to the Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa.

Suffering from hepatitis, he committed suicide in 1956.

Her father committed suicide in 1956.

In 1956, after many years of depression, Joan Ganz's father committed suicide at his home in Phoenix.

Having committed only four errors in 1956, Maxwell improved his performance in 1957, committing only one error in over 300 chances.

The story that Ordzhonikidze committed suicide was first mentioned by Nikita Khrushchev during his Secret Speech of February 25, 1956.

In 1956, he returned to the United States and settled in Woodstock, New York, where he continued to write plays and books and remained actively committed to progressive political and social justice causes.

) The real-life Angela committed suicide in 1956, and although Hardy's latest biographer Jenny Hocking ( professor ) was unable to find concrete evidence for Angela's assistance, she does believe it was provided.

On December 7, 1956, Price was committed by his parents to the Institute of Living, an exclusive mental treatment facility in Connecticut, until he was released on Thanksgiving Day 1957.

Lechoń committed suicide on 8 June 1956 by jumping from the twelfth floor of the Hudson Hotel.

In February 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the cult of personality that surrounded his predecessor, Joseph Stalin, and condemned crimes committed during the Great Purge.

After Nikita Khrushchev's " secret speech " to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956, which revealed that the Soviet party leadership had long been aware of Stalin's crimes, Thompson ( with John Saville and others ) started a dissident publication inside the CP, called The Reasoner.

The most important event for the dissemination of Whorf's ideas to a larger public was the publication in 1956 of his major writings on the topic of linguistic relativity in a single volume titled " Language, Thought and Reality " edited by J.

The Chronicles of Narnia's seven books have been in continuous publication since 1956, selling over 100 million copies in 47 languages and with editions in Braille.

After October 1956 four books written by Gombrowicz appeared in Poland and they brought him great renown despite the fact that the authorities did not allow the publication of Dziennik ( Diary ).

Other reviews by publication year and earliest available cited works those in 1970 / 1937, 1972 / 1933, 1974, 1987 / 7 from 1968 on, 3 from 1937 to 1956, and 2009 / c.

The publication of the Babylonian Chronicles in 1956, however, gave evidence that the years of Zedekiah were measured in a non-accession sense.

The Kaplan Herald has been in continuous publication since 1956 as the Kaplan Journal.

It was also a marker of the beginning of the Beat movement, since the 1956 publication of Howl ( City Lights Pocket Poets, no.

" John Rewald, one of the first professional art historians to focus on the birth of early modern art, limited the scope to the years between 1886 and 1892 in his pioneering publication on Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin ( 1956 ): Rewald considered it to continue his History of Impressionism ( 1946 ), and pointed out that a " subsequent volume dedicated to the second half of the post-impressionist period "— Post-Impressionism: From Gauguin to Matisse — was to follow, extending the period covered to other artistic movements derived from Impressionism and confined to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Frame left New Zealand in late 1956, and the next seven years were most prolific in terms of publication.

The publication of My Family and Other Animals in 1956 made Durrell a notable author, in addition, bringing him public recognition as a naturalist.

In October 1956 it became The Ladder, the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the U. S. and one of the first to publish statistics on lesbians, when they mailed surveys to their readers in 1958 and 1964.

In 1956, the aviation trade publication Interavia reported that Brown had made substantial progress in anti-gravity or electro-gravitic propulsion research.

Warnock's earliest publication and subject of his master's thesis, was his 1964 proof of a theorem solving the Jacobson radical for row-finite matrices, which was originally posed by the American mathematician Nathan Jacobson in 1956.

The Beezer ( called The Beezer and Topper for the last 3 years of publication ) was a British comic that ran from ( issues dates ) 21 January 1956 to 21 August 1993,

" One Man's Opinion, a magazine launched by Welch in 1956, was renamed American Opinion, and became the society's official publication.

In 2006, the Jersey Arts Centre's Theatre in Education company produced the first stage version, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the book's publication in 1956.

Ginger worked in New York for the next six years, first in advertising and then as an editor at the book publishers Alfred Knopf and Henry Holt, but neither his success in these endeavors, his remarriage in 1956, nor the publication of two notably readable works of history ( Altgeld's America and Six Days or Forever?

After that, although he continued to write and to publish in periodicals, his poetry had no further book publication until the 1959 Inscriptions: 1944 – 1956.

* Highways in Hiding ( magazine publication 1955, book publication 1956, abridged as Space Plague in 1957 )

In 1956, with the urging and support of Evangelist Billy Graham, Henry began publication of Christianity Today.

Before Wiseman's publication of the Babylonian Chronicles in 1956, Thiele had determined from Biblical texts that Nebuchadnezzar's initial capture of Jerusalem and its king Jeconiah occurred in the spring of 597 BC, whereas Kenneth Strand points out that other scholars, including Albright, more frequently dated the event to 598 BC.

In this regard, the Biblical texts regarding Jeconiah are especially important, because the time of his reign in Jerusalem was fixed by Donald Wiseman's 1956 publication, and this is consistent with his thirty-seventh year of captivity overlapping the accession year of Amel-Marduk, as mentioned above.

From its publication in July 1956, the Reasoner had irritated the Old Guard of the CPGB.