He returned to colonial Nigeria in 1956.

* Festus Olabode Ola ( born 1956 ), elected Senator for Ekiti Central constituency of Ekiti State, Nigeria, taking office on 30 June 2009

There are also two collections obtained in the field by professional anthropologists: Frank Willett collected pottery, masks and ritual regalia in Nigeria in 1956 ; Peter Worsley collected basketry and other items from the Wanindiljaugwa people of Groote Eylandt, Australia in 1952.

In the 1950s he wrote the books An Introduction to Eastern Kamerun, published in 1956, and To the Nigeria People, published in 1958.

Ford Foundation grantee, 1956 ; Rockefeller grantee Nigeria, 1957-58

In 1956 Moshood Abiola started his professional life as bank clerk with Barclays Bank plc in Ibadan, South-West Nigeria.

He soon returned to Nigeria to serve as the Aide de camp to John Macpherson, Governor General of Nigeria and he was assigned the equerry to Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to Nigeria in 1956, assignment for which he was sent to the Buckingham Palace to train for.

Ibadan, Nigeria, Ibadan University Press, 1956.

It was first isolated from a fruit bat ( Eidolon helvum ) from Lagos Island, Nigeria in 1956.

In 1956, the Northern Nigeria Government approved the plans for the creation of a Game Preservation area.

In 1956, the 2eme Regiment de Parachutiste Coloniaux took part in the Suez Crisis.

At 04. 15 hours on November 5, 1956, British 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment jumped in and although opposition was heavy, casualties were few.

As an example the Punjab Regiment has expanded from four battalions in 1956 to its present strength of 20, while in Pakistan several regiments have over 50 battalions.

It was first used by the Companies in 1956 and later continued under 1 Commando Regiment.

Educated at University College School in Hampstead, he joined the Royal Fusiliers before attending Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and on graduation was commissioned in the Royal Tank Regiment in 1956.

He served as commander of the reservist Hawke's Bay Regiment from 1956 to 1957.

The Regular and Reserve components of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, Royal Canadian Artillery and Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery were collectively redesignated the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery on 29 Oct 1956.

He served in the United States Army in Germany from 1955 – 1956 with the 10th Infantry Regiment, Fifth Infantry Division and with the 12th Armored Infantry Battalion, Second Armored Division.

The Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps, founded in 1956, is a World Class ( formerly referred to as Division I ) drum and bugle corps based in Rockford, Illinois, USA, and is a member corps of Drum Corps International.

Templer was also appointed Colonel of the Royal Irish Fusiliers from 1946, Colonel of the Malay Federation Regiment from 1954, Colonel of the 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles from 25 May 1956, Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards from 1963 and Colonel of the Blues and Royals from 1969.

On 20 December 1956, he was appointed sergeant major of the 3rd Battalion, 26th Regiment.

| width =" 20 %" rowspan =" 2 " align =" center "| The 40th / 41st Royal Tank Regiment ( 1956 )

1956. 10. 31 Q ( Tyneside Scottish ) Battery, 439th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA

In 1956, Watson's medals were loaned to the Green Howards Regimental Museum, then in 1992 were donated as a gift to the Regiment by the husband of Watson's niece, Mrs Catherine Whittuck.

During the post-war years, Gale also held a number of ceremonial and non-military posts ; he was aide-de-camp ( general ) to the Queen Elizabeth II between 1954 – 7, Colonel of the Worcestershire Regiment between 1950 – 61, and Colonel-Commandant of the Parachute Regiment between 1956 – 67.

In January 1956, the first Australian ground forces were deployed on Malaysian peninsula, consisting of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment ( 2 RAR ).

In 1956, the Frontier Force Rifles and the Pathan Regiment were merged with the Frontier Force Regiment, and 1 FF Rifles was redesignated as 7th Battalion ( Coke's ) The Frontier Force Regiment or 7 FF.

* Captain Richard Vickers, LVO Royal Tank Regiment 1956 – 1959 ( temporary )

In 1956 the merged 45th / 51st ( Leeds Rifles ) RTR returned to the infantry role as 7th ( Leeds Rifles ) Bn West Yorkshire Regt and in 1961 it re-absorbed the 466th ( Leeds Rifles ) Light Anti-Aircraft Regt, RA, to form The Leeds Rifles, The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire.

In 1956 the 410th ( Kent ) Coast Regiment ( Royal Artillery ) was disbanded and converted into infantry.

In July 1956 the Regiment took part in operations against EOKA terrorists in Cyprus.

* 1956 – Princess Alia bint Al Hussein, Jordanian Royal Family member

It was founded in 1956 ( except the Royal Navy founded in 1960 ) after Morocco's independence from France and Spain.

Although the country gained independence, the British Royal Navy remained stationed at Trincomalee until 1956.

The facility ( called Roughs Tower or HM Fort Roughs ) was occupied by 150 – 300 Royal Navy personnel throughout World War II ; not until well after the war, in 1956, were the last full-time personnel taken off HM Fort Roughs.

* Royal Court Theatre, 9 February 1956.

UMIST gained its Royal Charter in 1956 and became a fully autonomous university in 1993.

During 1955 and 1956 the Manchester College of Science and Technology achieved independent university status under its own Royal Charter and became separately funded from the University Grants Committee.

All of the V-bombers would see active service at least once albeit with conventional bombs ; the Valiant in the Suez Crisis in 1956, the Victor in the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation of 1962-66, and the Vulcan in the Falklands War long after the strategic nuclear role had been passed over to the Royal Navy.

He remained an extra year at Oxford studying graduate-level statistics, and following his National Service in the Royal Navy ( 1956 – 1958 ).

Renfrew was educated at St Albans School, Hertfordshire ( where one of the houses is named after him ) and from 1956 to 1958 did National Service in the Royal Air Force.

Blunden's public honours included the C. B. E., 1951 ; the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 1956 ; The Royal Society of Literature's Benson Medal ; the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd Class ( Japan ), 1963 ; and Honorary Membership of the Japan Academy.

* Edward James Salisbury ( 1886 – 1978 ), director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew from 1943 to 1956 ; cousin of Frank O. Salisbury

* Royal Burgh of Cullen, a 20th century armorial: Per fess sable and argent, in chief on a sedilla or cushioned gules diapered or the Blessed Virgin enthroned proper habited gules mantled azure crowned or and holding in her dexter hand a sceptre surmounted of a fleur de lis or and in her sinister arm the Holy Child enhaloed also proper in base a talbot passant of the first ( Public Register, vol 41, p 37, 1956 )

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

Halley Research Station was founded in 1956, for IGY, by an expedition from the Royal Society.

They separated in 1956 and were divorced in 1957, at which time Queen Dina became known as Her Royal Highness Princess Dina Abdul-Hamid of Jordan.

It was written in 1956 following a request from the dancer Deryk Mendel and first performed on April 3, 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

The creation of a " Board of the French language " was one of the recommendations of the Tremblay Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems which published its five-volume report in 1956.

The site that would eventually become Royal Lakes was purchased by a Chicago developer in 1956.

Royal City was founded in 1956 and officially incorporated on February 14, 1962.

He was granted honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1933 ; in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1955 ; the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, in 1955 ; the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, in 1962 ; was elected Corresponding Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Berlin, in 1955 ; member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists, Leopoldina ( Halle-Saale ) in 1956 ; Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, Copenhagen, in 1962 ; Vice-President of the International Union of Physics from 1951 to 1957 ; President and first honorary member of the Polarographic Society, London ; honorary member of the Polarographic Society of Japan ; honorary member of the Chemical Societies of Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, England and India.

He was awarded UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the popularisation of science in 1953, the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1956, and the Darwin – Wallace Medal of the Linnaean Society in 1958.

Julian's eminence as an advocate for evolution, and especially his contribution to the new evolutionary synthesis, led to his awards of the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1956, and the Darwin – Wallace Medal of the Linnaean Society in 1958.

Later, he attended the Royal College of Music in London from 1956 to 1959, studying piano because the school did not have a guitar department at the time.