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.

But one thing is for certain: There is no dissension between Mantle, the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1956 and 1957, and Maris, the MVP in 1960.

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

* 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.

* 1956 – Stepfanie Kramer, American actress

* 1956 – Jim Neidhart, American wrestler

* 1956 – Tom Leykis, American radio host

* 1956 – Branscombe Richmond, American actor

* 1956 – David McDowell Brown, American astronaut ( d. 2003 )

* 1956 – Jackée Harry, American actress

* 1956 – Rusty Wallace, American race car driver

* Adrian Dantley ( born 1956 ), American retired National Basketball Association ( NBA ) player

* Adrian Rollini ( 1903 – 1956 ), American multi-instrumentalist best known for his jazz music

* 1956 – Adam Arkin, American actor

* 1956 – Jon Tester, American politician

* 1956 – Skipp Sudduth, American actor

* 1956 – GG Allin, American singer-songwriter ( The Murder Junkies and The Jabbers ) ( d. 1993 )

* 1956 – Mark Morris, American choreographer

* 1923 – Nate Saint, American missionary ( d. 1956 )

* 1956 – Frank Conniff, American writer and actor

* 1956 – Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress

* 1956 – Eric Roberts, American actor

* 1956 – Melody Thomas Scott, American actress

Anita Faye Hill ( born July 30, 1956 ) is an American attorney and academic, currently a professor of social policy, law and women's studies at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

* 1956 – Fred Ottman, American wrestler

Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association in 1956.

In 1956, Reno enrolled at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she majored in chemistry, became president of the Women's Self-Government Association, and earned her room and board.

* 1956 – The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.

She then formed the World Women's Wrestling Association in the early 1950s and recognized herself as the first champion, although the championship would be vacated upon her retirement in 1956.

In 1956, the Chinese Taoist Association was formed, and received official approval in 1957.

In 1956, he was named editor-in-chief of Vietnamese Buddhism, the periodical of the Unified Vietnam Buddhist Association ( Giáo Hội Phật Giáo Việt Nam Thống Nhất ).

By 1956, she dissolved The World Calendar Association, Incorporated.

In 1956, TEJO became the youth section of the World Esperanto Association ( Universala Esperanto-Asocio, UEA ).

Two stories by Hrabal ( Hovory lidí ) appeared in 1956 as a supplement in the annual Zprávy spolku českých bibliofilů ( Report of the Association of Czech Bibliophiles ).

During his first spell at Fulham, Robson participated in two ambassadorial Football Association tours in the West Indies in 1955 and South Africa in 1956.

Leland G. Mims, a Minden businessman, served as a Webster Parish police juror ( the parish governing body ) from 1953 – 1976, president of the jury each year from 1956 – 1973, and president of the Police Jury Association of Louisiana from 1965-1967.

* Elmer Eric Schattschneider — A prominent political scientist and former president of the American Political Science Association from 1956 to 1957

* John J. Doles ( 1895 – 1970 ), member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1952 – 1956 and president of the Louisiana Bankers Association from 1956-1957.

The Eagles qualified for the Minnesota Baseball Association Class C State Tournament in 2003, their first since Winthrop's initial birth in 1956.

In 1956, however, the Township asked the Millington Association to find other quarters, and the Central School location had steadily become less than satisfactory due to increasing enrollment.

In 1939, it was renamed Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc., and in 1956 the name was changed to Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. Until 2000, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses was president of both the Watch Tower ( Pennsylvania ) and Watchtower ( New York ) corporations, as well as Britain's International Bible Students Association corporation ; in 2001, it was decided that the corporations ' directors need not be members of the Governing Body.

The first practical professional broadcast quality videotape machines capable of replacing kinescopes were the two-inch quadruplex videotape machines introduced by Ampex on April 14, 1956 at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Chicago.

* July 17 – The Metropolitan Opera Association announces the cancellation of its 1956 – 57 season because of a labor dispute.

In 1956, the Attorney General of Alabama brought a suit to the State Circuit Court of Montgomery, Alabama challenging the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) for violation of a state statute requiring foreign corporations to qualify before doing business in the state.

The Village also has a thriving Residents ' association, the Onslow Village Residents ' Association ( OVRA ) which was set up in 1956 and whose object is to " safeguard the amenities of Onslow village and to promote the welfare, interests and well-being of the residents ".

* 1956 – 7 President of the Canadian Association of Physicists

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