* 1891 – B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist, maker of Indian Constitution ( d. 1956 )

* 1956 – In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S. W. R. D.

* 1956 – Peter Buck, American guitarist ( R. E. M.

Kaye entered the world of television in 1956 through the CBS show See It Now with Edward R. Murrow.

* 1956 – H. R., American singer ( Bad Brains )

In 1956, several years before he targeted King, Hoover had a public showdown with T. R. M.

* 1956 – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385, 000 of his followers ( see Neo-Buddhism ).

* Jakobson R., Halle M., Fundamentals of Language, 1956

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was elected prime minister in 1956.

* Atkinson, R J C, Stonehenge ( Penguin Books, 1956 )

Stanley Holloway, who recorded it in 1956, attributed it to R. P. Weston, a songwriter active from 1906 to 1934.

* Auguste R. Lindt, 1956 – 1960

Her wartime activities in German Occupied France were dramatised in the film Carve Her Name with Pride, starring Virginia McKenna and based on the 1956 book of the same name by R. J. Minney.

* November 14 – Peter R. de Vries, Dutch crime reporter ( b. 1956 )

* April 14 – B. R. Ambedkar, One of the founding fathers of modern India and the architect of its constitution ( d. 1956 )

* March 6 – R. Williams Parry, Welsh poet ( d. 1956 )

* Battiscombe, C. F. ( ed ), The Relics of Saint Cuthbert, Oxford University Press, 1956, including R. A.

* "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock " – US R ' n ' B No. 3 then # 1 ( 8 weeks ), Billboard, US ; # 1 ( 7 weeks ), Cashbox, 06 / 1955 ; # 1, UK, 10 / 1955 ; UK recharts # 5 09 / 1956 ; # 24, 12 / 1956 ; No. 25 01 / 1957 ; No. 20 04 / 1968 ; No. 34 05 / 1968 ; No. 12 UK then No. 39 US, 04 / 1974

The first four robot novels The Caves of Steel ( 1953 ), The Naked Sun ( 1956 ), The Robots of Dawn ( 1983 ), and Robots and Empire ( 1985 ) make up the Elijah Baley ( sometimes " Lije Baley ") series, and are mysteries starring the Terran Elijah Baley and his humaniform robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw.

** Daughter: H. R. H. Princess Alia bint Al Hussein ( born 1956 ).

* Devi, Savitri, Tripod. com A Son of God ( Philosophical Publishing House, 1946 ); subsequent editions published as Son of the Sun: The Life and Philosophy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt ( Supreme Grand Lodge of A. M. O. R. C., 1956 ); part III of The Lightning and the Sun is focused on Akhnaten.

Machines were later introduced in Switzerland and then in Austria, in October 1956 ; these were produced by Glerios / R. Seipel & Co. and / or Theodor Braun ( Vienna ).

* 1956 or 0 ( 8 ) 320-1231 area code & number

* Capp, Al, Al Capp's Fearless Fosdick: His Life and Deaths ( 1956 ) Simon & Schuster

* Capp, Al, Al Capp's Bald Iggle: The Life it Ruins May Be Your Own ( 1956 ) Simon & Schuster

In addition to the many songs recorded by him, in 1956 he co-wrote, with Jody Williams, the pioneering pop song " Love Is Strange ", a hit for Mickey & Sylvia in 1957.

From 1956 to 1961, Dutch importer Hart, Nibbrig & Greve assembled the cars in an abandoned asphalt-factory in Sassenheim, where they employed about 120 workers, two transporter, that collected the SKD-kits from Duesseldorf and build about 13. 500 cars.

London: Burns & Oates, 1956.

& C. Black, 1956.

* Frits Lugt, Les marques de collections de dessins & d ' estampes, 1921 and its Supplement 1956, online edition

* 1956 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last " Big Tent " show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.

One very famous colonial officer in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony was Sir Arthur Grimble ( 1888 – 1956 ), at first as a cadet officer in 1914, under Edward Carlyon Eliot who was Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands colony from 1913 to 1920.

* 1956 – Mari Boine, Norwegian musician who added jazz & rock to the yoiks of the Sami people

Both movies contained the Bill Haley & His Comets hit " Rock Around the Clock ", which first entered the British charts in early 1955 – four months before it reached the US pop charts – topped the British charts later that year and again in 1956, and helped identify rock and roll with teenage delinquency.

In 1956 As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, both produced by Procter & Gamble Productions, debuted as the first half-hour soap operas on CBS Television.

* May 25 – Marie Doro, American stage & silent film actress ( d. 1956 )

* July 27 – Kathleen Howard, Canadian / American opera singer & character actress ( d. 1956 )

* Hunt, John, Ascent of Everest, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1956.

In 1956, AT & T and the Justice Department agreed on a consent decree to end an antitrust suit brought against AT & T in 1949.

" In return, the Justice Department agreed to lift the restrictions on AT & T activities contained in the 1956 Consent Decree.

It was not until a landmark court ruling regarding the Hush-A-Phone in 1956 that the use of a phone attachment ( by a third party vendor ) was allowed for the first time ; though AT & T's right to regulate any device connected to the telephone system was upheld by the courts, they were instructed to cease interference towards Hush-A-Phone users.

In United States telecommunication law, Modification of Final Judgment ( MFJ ) is the August 1982 agreement approved by the court ( consent decree ) settling United States v. AT & T, a landmark antitrust suit, originally filed on January 14, 1949 and modifying the previous Final Judgment of January 24, 1956.

By 1956, the D & RGW's standard-gauge steam locomotives had been retired and scrapped.

* 1956: Poems-North & South by Elizabeth Bishop