Britain began designing the ship in 1956 but got nowhere until the American government decided to end a ban on sharing military secrets with Britain that had been imposed after Fuchs blabbed.

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.

This move began with Burrough's purchase, in June 1956, of the ElectroData Corporation in Pasadena, California, a spinoff of the Consolidated Engineering Corporation which had designed test instruments and had a cooperative relationship with Caltech in Pasadena.

In 1956, Campbell began planning a car to break the land speed record, which then stood at.

Unity within the Albanian Party of Labour began to decline as well, with a special delegate meeting held in Tirana in April, 1956, composed of 450 delegates and having unexpected results.

The fight for independence began in 1956, when Amílcar Cabral founded the Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (), the PAIGC.

In 1956, Hackman began pursuing an acting career ; he joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California.

Gammell began making plans to execute the pictorial sequence during World War II and completed the series in 1956.

Nehru's industrial policies, summarised in the Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956, encouraged the growth of diverse manufacturing and heavy industries, yet state planning, controls and regulations began to impair productivity, quality and profitability.

In 1956 Philby began an affair with Eleanor Brewer, the wife of New York Times correspondent Sam Pope Brewer.

In 1956, inspired by Ernest Hemingway's 1935 novel Green Hills of Africa, she began an ambitious film project in Africa drawn from another novel called Schwarze Fracht ( Black Freight ).

The DOB began publishing a magazine titled The Ladder in 1956 ; inside the front cover of every issue was their mission statement, the first of which stated was " Education of the variant ".

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

In 1956, Bearden began studying with a Chinese calligrapher, whom he credits with introducing him to new ideas about space and composition in painting.

Work on SECAM began in 1956.

Dolenz began his show business career in 1956 when he starred in a children ’ s show called Circus Boy under the name Mickey Braddock.

The U. S. Army began studies in 1956 for a ballistic missile with a range of about.

A revision in the organization of French Overseas Territories began with the passage of the Basic Law ( Loi Cadre ) of July 23, 1956.

In 1956, Turner's shows at Club Manhattan began to be attended by two sisters, Aillene and Anna Mae Bullock.

The band's popularity in the United States began to wane in 1956 – 57 as sexier, wilder acts such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard began to dominate the record charts ( although Haley's cover version of Little Richard's " Rip It Up "-which was released in direct competition-actually outsold the original ).

Berg began at Mad in 1956.

In 1956, Procter & Gamble began researching disposable diapers.

Nielsen made his film debut in 1956, and began collecting his roles in dramas, westerns, and romance films between the 1950s and the 1970s.

After a stint teaching at Darmstadt from 1956 to 1961, Tudor began to wind up his activities as a pianist to concentrate on composing.

A successful musical comedy adaptation of the strip opened on Broadway at the St. James Theater on November 15, 1956 and had a long run of 693 performances, followed by a nationwide tour.

In 1956, an R & B " Top Stars of ' 56 " tour took place, with headliners Al Hibbler, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, and Carl Perkins, whose " Blue Suede Shoes " was very popular with R & B music buyers.

During the 1956 tour to England, he helped Australia to its only victory in the Lord's Test, when he scored a rapid 97 in the second innings in 143 minutes from only 113 balls.

After the 1956 England tour, Benaud stayed behind in London to take a BBC presenter training course.

De Camp's most highly regarded works in the genre are his time travel and alternate history stories, including Lest Darkness Fall ( 1939 ), " The Wheels of If " ( 1940 ), " A Gun for Dinosaur " ( 1956 ), " Aristotle and the Gun " ( 1958 ), and The Glory That Was ( 1960 ) – in the last of which the " time travel " actually turns out to be a tour de force of historical recreation.

Perkins returned to live performances on April 21, 1956, beginning with an appearance in Beaumont, Texas, with the " Big D Jamboree " tour.

Shankar heard about the positive response Khan received and resigned from AIR in 1956 to tour the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States.

Presley had first performed " Heartbreak Hotel " during a live show in December 1955 during a tour of the Louisiana Hayride, but the song gained strong popularity after his appearance on Stage Show in March 1956.

Other work included accompanying the Bolshoi Ballet on their first British tour in 1956.

Boult headed the LPO ’ s tour of the Soviet Union in 1956.

( 1956 ) ( European tour with Jack Cassidy )

The brothers took the unit on tour and onto their own television show, Stage Show, from 1955 to 1956.

During a tour in 1956 he lost most of his eyesight due to an eye infection that he had ignored to avoid canceling his show and disappointing his fans.

With one national hit, however, in late January 1956, they went on a tour, joining Irvin Feld ’ s " Super Attractions Tour ".

Then in March 1956, they joined another tour, which featured Roy Gaines, Guitar Slim, Margie Day, and Lloyd Lambert.

When the Vienna Philharmonic made their first tour to the USA in 1956, Schuricht replaced Erich Kleiber, sharing the conducting during the six-weeks with André Cluytens.

A much more successful musical comedy adaptation of the strip, also entitled Li ' l Abner, opened on Broadway at the St. James Theater on November 15, 1956 and had a long run of 693 performances, followed by a nationwide tour.

" In 1956 Meads played in national trials and for the North Island, and in 1957 was selected for the tour of Australia.

Sobers went on his first overseas tour in the early months of 1956 when, aged 19, he was part of the West Indian tour of New Zealand.

Althea Gibson ( August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003 ) was a World No. 1 American sportswoman who became the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam title in 1956.

The seventh season of Philco Television Playhouse began September 19, 1954 with E. G. Marshall and Eva Marie Saint in Chayefsky's Middle of the Night, a play which relocated to Broadway theaters 15 months later ; In 1956, Middle of the Night opened on Broadway with Edward G. Robinson and Gena Rowlands, and its success led to a national tour.

Trueman was not included in the 1956 – 57 tour of South Africa, in which England relied for pace on Bailey, Statham, Tyson and Peter Loader.

The return of Horvath marked his fourth tour of duty with the Amerks since 1956 – 57.