Songs like Theophilus Beckford's Easy Snappin ( recorded in 1956 ) were played as exclusives by Sir Coxson's Downbeat sound system for years before they were actually released in 1959-only to become major local hits, also pressed in the UK by Island Records and Blue Beat Records as early as 1960.

On October 15, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower pressed a button on his desk in the capital of Washington D. C., sending a telegraph signal that set off the first blast of dynamite at the portal of the right diversion tunnel.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

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.

Anti-Altaicists Gerard Clauson ( 1956 ), Gerhard Doerfer ( 1963 ), and Alexander Shcherbak argued that the words and features shared by Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic were for the most part borrowings and that the rest could be attributed to chance resemblances.

* 1956 Towards Zero ( dramatised by Gerald Verner )

Braudel was editor of Annales from 1956 to 1968, followed by the medievalist Jacques Le Goff.

* In the 1956 epic film Helen of Troy, Agamemnon is played by Robert Douglas.

In 1956, he applied the same thinking to the Riemann – Roch theorem, which had already recently been generalized to any dimension by Hirzebruch.

* 1956 – Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.

Hydroxyzine ( Atarax ) is an old antihistamine originally approved for clinical use by the FDA in 1956.

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.

1956 saw the debut of the Bald Iggle, considered by some Abner enthusiasts to be the creative high point of the strip, as well as Mammy's revelatory encounter with the " Square Eyes " Family — Capp ’ s thinly-veiled appeal for racial tolerance.

* Andersonville ( novel ), Pulitzer Prize winning 1956 novel by MacKinlay Kantor

And in 1956, there were carried by the F3H-2M Demon and F7U Cutlass fighter aircraft.

The Penguin Edition of 1956 includes an Introduction by John Sparrow.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

The term byte was coined by Dr. Werner Buchholz in July 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer.

This design was introduced by Japanese manufacturer Olfa Corporation in 1956 as the world's first snap-off blade and was inspired from analyzing the sharp cutting edge produced when glass is broken and how pieces of a chocolate bar break into segments.

Born in Ashington, Northumberland, Charlton made his debut for the Manchester United first-team in 1956, and over the next two seasons gained a regular place in the team, during which time he survived the Munich air disaster of 1958 after being rescued by Harry Gregg.

According to the Babylonian Chronicles, published by Donald Wiseman in 1956, it was established that Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem the first time on 2 Adar ( 16 March ) 597 BC.

These tiny fragments turned up in a collection of Dead Sea Scrolls possessed by the Jordanian Government, and were first published by Milik in 1956.

Writing in 1956 John Stewart suggested that brochs were forts put up by a military society to scan and protect the countryside and seas.

Bob could draw " a thousand people on Monday night between 1950 and 1952, but he could not do that by 1956.

He continued to have hits through the rest of the 1950s and even the 1960s, including " Pretty Thing " ( 1956 ), " Say Man " ( 1959 ), and " You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover " ( 1962 ).

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.

By 1956, Mao was becoming bored with the day-to-day running of the state and also worried about growing red tape and bureaucracy.

* Tim Lott, author ( his debut The Scent Of Dried Roses is about growing up in Southall ) was born here in 1956.

The Louis Woodham Concrete Company, which would provide construction materials for the growing Shalimar area, was established at Dixie Point at the end of Ferry Road by 1956, and would survive into the late 1970s before being replaced by condominiums.

Newton's growing reputation as a fashion photographer was rewarded when he secured a commission to illustrate fashions in a special Australian supplement for Vogue magazine, published in January 1956.

Vertical aerial pics of DTW ( and the Detroit area ) from 1949 and later years at 1956 marked a major turning point in the history of the growing airport.

" The doctrine was motivated in part by an increase in Arab hostility toward the West, and growing Soviet influence in Egypt and Syria following the Suez Crisis of 1956.

In 1956, in his regular New York Times Book Review column, mystery critic Anthony Boucher, noting the growing popularity of crime fiction in which the main emphasis was the realistic depiction of police work, suggested that such stories constituted a distinct sub-genre of the mystery, and, crediting the success of Dragnet for the rise of this new form, coined the phrase " police procedural " to describe it.

The nominal main studio requirement has become less relevant with the introduction of videotape recorders in 1956 ( which allowed local content to be easily generated off-site and transported to stations ), the growing portability of broadcast-quality production equipment due to transistorization and the elimination of requirements ( in 1987 for most classes of US broadcast stations ) that broadcasters originate any minimum amount of local content.

The Commission's reports, issued in 1956 and 1957, expressed concern about growing foreign ownership in the Canadian economy, particularly in the resource sector, and made recommendations to redress the problem.

Between 1956 and 1970, Rockland ’ s population was one of the fastest growing in the state, expected to double from 107, 000 to 215, 000 and the number of high school graduates was projected to rise from 700 to 2, 463.

The association was formed by active-duty naval aviators in 1956, eventually growing into a national organization headquartered in San Diego, California.

Her sister Ermengard, in the foreword to the 1956 selection, suggests " one can trace the putting off of Bloomsbury, the putting on of Catholicism, the growing ardour of her love for animals, her deepening fears ".

Maxwell and Rosbaud worked together growing the company until May 1956, when Rosbaud left.

As result of the growing co-operation between the African and Indian Congresses in the 1950s, Kathrada came into close contact with African National Congress leaders such as Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu ; he was one of 156 accused in the four year Treason Trial, which lasted from 1956 to 1961.

However, after independence, Dr. B. C. Roy, the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, took personal interest in revamping the department to satisfy the growing demand of qualified mining professionals, and the Department of Mining & Geology was reborn in 1956.

In the meantime, Heidenheim's population kept growing and during the 20th century several additional parishes were founded: Christ Parish was founded in 1958 ( its church built in 1956 ), John's Parish with church and community center in 1963, Forestchurch Parish in 1972 ( its church was built in 1975 but the community had had the use of a wooden chapel built in 1926 ), plus Reconciliation Parish and Zinzendorf Parish.

Liberation Rally was dissolved in 1956 and reorganized as the National Union party to accommodate President Nasser's growing pan-Arab rhetoric.

However, with vessels constantly growing and finally exceeding the capacity of the canal, the coming of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1956 and the closure of the Lachine Canal in 1970 put an end to the area's industrial prosperity.

The label was not a success and by 1956 it was clear that the growing teenage rock ' n roll market was not buying Southern based blues.

Imam Ahmad faced growing pressures to support the Arab nationalist objectives of Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser and, in April 1956, he signed a mutual defense pact with Egypt.

To continue to meet the needs of a growing population, the district erected Alamo Heights High School in 1949-50, the original unit of Woodridge Elementary in 1951-52, Howard Early Childhood Center in 1956, Alamo Heights Junior School in 1959, and the former Robbins Elementary School in 1964.