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.

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.

** United States Army Medical Unit ( 1956 – 69 )

In Sept 1956, the team added a sixth aircraft to the flight demonstration in the Opposing Solo position, and gave its first performance outside the United States at the International Air Exposition in Toronto, Canada.

The honour had already been proposed in 1931 and 1956, but was vetoed after a Foreign Office report raised concerns over Chaplin's political views and private life ; it was felt that honouring him would damage both the reputation of the British honours system and relations with the United States.

After the industrial scale production of cadmium started in the 1930s and 1940s, the major application of cadmium was the coating of iron and steel to prevent corrosion ; in 1944, 62 % and in 1956, 59 % of the cadmium in the United States was for coating.

In 1956, 24 % of the cadmium used within the United States was used for the second application, which was for red, orange and yellow pigments based on sulfides and selenides of cadmium.

In 1956, he received a two-year scholarship for postgraduate training in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States.

Claude Piron ( 26 February 1931 – 22 January 2008 ) was a psychologist and a translator for the United Nations ( from Chinese, English, Russian and Spanish into French ) from 1956 to 1961.

* 1956 – Japan joins the United Nations.

* 1956 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.

He reached the two-legged final of the FA Youth Cup with Chesterfield in 1956, losing 4 – 3 on aggregate to the Manchester United team of the famous Busby Babes.

It became a United Nations specialized agency in 1947, and the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee ( CCITT, from ) was created in 1956.

* 1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.

* 1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both planes.

In 1956, under his direction, St-Laurent's Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson, helped solve the Suez Crisis in 1956 between Great Britain, France, Israel and Egypt, bringing forward St-Laurent's 1946 views on a U. N. military force in the form of the United Nations Emergency Force ( UNEF ) or peacekeeping.

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

That legislation, contained at section 1956 of Title 18 of the United States Code, prohibits individuals from engaging in a financial transaction with proceeds that were generated from certain specific crimes, known as " specified unlawful activities " ( SUAs ).

With the exceptions of the Presidential elections of 1956 and 2008, Missouri voters have elected the next President of the United States in every election since 1904.

In 1956, after 44 years of occupation Morocco regained independence from France as the Kingdom of Morocco.

* 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.

* 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.

The most prominent Congolese politician until 1956 was Jean-Félix Tchicaya, born in Libreville on 9 November 1903 and a member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Loango.

In addition to periods of direct rule by Egyptian governments ( including the Ayyubids, the Mamluks, the Muhammad Ali Dynasty, and the modern Egyptian republic ), it was like the rest of Egypt, also occupied and controlled by the Ottoman Empire, and the United Kingdom ( which occupied Egypt from 1882 until 1956 ).

After the United Kingdom and the United States withdrew their pledge to support the construction of the Aswan Dam due to Egyptian overtures towards the Soviet Union, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal in 1956 and transferred it to the Suez Canal Authority, intending to finance the dam project using revenue from the canal.

Following the nationalisation of the Suez Canal in 1956 by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the United Kingdom, France and Israel subsequently invaded.

Category: 1956 establishments in the United Kingdom

Owing to Peres ' mediation, Israel acquired the advanced Dassault Mirage III French jet fighter, established the Dimona nuclear reactor and entered into a tri-national agreement with France and the United Kingdom, positioning Israel in what would become the 1956 Suez Crisis.

It is on this run-in — the longest in the United Kingdom at 494 yards — that many potential winners have been snatched of victory, such as Devon Loch in 1956, Crisp in 1973 and Sunnyhillboy in 2012.

In the United Kingdom, the Common Cold Unit was set up by the Medical Research Council in 1946 and it was here that the rhinovirus was discovered in 1956.

Peter Michael Ainsworth ( born 16 November 1956 ) is a former Conservative politician in the United Kingdom.

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

Four of his early novels were made into films: Snowbound ( 1948 ) from The Lonely Skier ( 1947 ), Hell Below Zero ( 1954 ) from The White South ( 1949 ), Campbell's Kingdom ( 1957 ) from the book of the same name ( 1952 ), and The Wreck of the Mary Deare ( 1959 ) also from the book of the same name ( 1956 ).

* Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, since 1956

* Tunisia, known as the Régence ( since 3 June 1955 autonomous ), where France had a Resident-general ( posted with the Basha bey of Tunis, who once the French protectorate was terminated on 20 March 1956 restyled his realm al-Mamlaka at-Tunisiyya ' Tunisian Kingdom '), in stead got a High commissioner from 13 September 1955 to 20 March 1956: Roger Seydoux Fornier de Clausonne ( b. 1908 – d. 1985 ); in continued shortly as independent monarchy, but on 25 July 1957 became the Tunisian Republic.

An equivalent scheme in the United Kingdom was operated by the British National Bibliography from 1956 and was subscribed to by many public and other libraries.

Prince Souvanna Phouma ( 7 October 1901 — January 10, 1984 ) was the leader of the neutralist faction and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Laos several times from 1951 – 1954, 1956 – 1958, 1960 and 1962-1975.

Jumblatt supported Egypt against an attack by Israel, France, and the United Kingdom in the Suez War of 1956, while Chamoun and parts of the Maronite Christian elite in Lebanon tacitly supported the invasion.

However, the Copyright Act 1956 of the United Kingdom will continue to apply to the protection of copyright of works created before 27 June 1997.

* Spalding, United Kingdom, since 1956

The Ladies ' Home Journal and Reader's Digest both published condensed versions and it was selected in June 1956 by the Book of the Month Club.

Television personality Dick Clark resided here from 1954 to 1956 at the Drexelbrook Apartment complex before moving to Wallingford, Pennsylvania, while hosting Barr ’ s Diamond Theater and a radio show on WFIL, prior to being selected to host American Bandstand.

SSA was selected because it had been administering a nationwide disability program under the Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits ( DIB ) program since 1956 under the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance ( OASDI ) programs associated with FICA payroll taxes.

When The Battle of the River Plate was completed and screened for executives at the Rank Organisation, it went over so well that it was decided to hold the release of the film for a year, so that it could be chosen as part of the next year's Royal Film Performance ( in 1956 ), since 1955's film had already been selected.

For example, Hillsdale's football team refused to play in the 1956 Tangerine Bowl in Florida when the governing committee of the Bowl would not allow the team's black players to join the white players on the field ; the committee then selected Juniata College instead.

In 1956 his Your Most Enchanted Listener was published ; in 1972, his Living With Change: The Semantics of Coping, a collection of selected portions of transcriptions of hundreds of his talks, organized by Dorothy Moeller, provided further general semantic insights.

This festival inspired the Eurovision Song Contest, which started in 1956, and for years the Sanremo festival selected the Italian entry.

From 1956 the fitting of double chimneys to selected engines, combined with larger superheaters, further enhanced their capacity for sustained high-speed performance.

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

In 1956, he was selected by the Democratic National Convention to be the running mate of presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson.

In his six years in the CFL, Gilchrist was a divisional All-Star at running back five consecutive years from 1956 to 1960 ( there were no All-Canadians selected in those years ) and was also an Eastern All-Star at linebacker in 1960.

He was selected PGA Tour Player of the Year in 1956.

In 1956 a beachfront in northern Netanya was selected as the home base for the Sanzer Hasidim by its leader, Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam.

The area was selected in 1956 as a site for a scientific research center for the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Piersall was selected to the American League All-Star team in 1954 and 1956.

In 1956, The Archectural Record selected the Robie House as " one of the seven most notable residences ever built in America.

During his career, Farmer played a record 31 games for Western Australia, five games for Victoria, and was selected in the All-Australian team in 1956, 1958 and 1961.

" In 1910, 500 books had been published under the Everyman trademark, and in 1956 the thousandth volume ( Dent's original goal ) was published, with Aristotle's Metaphysics selected for the honour.

Grier was selected for the Pro Bowl in 1956 and 1960, and was named All-Pro at the defensive tackle position in 1956 and 1958 – 1962.

In the 17th round of the 1956 draft, the Green Bay Packers made Starr the 199th player selected .< ref name =" starrHOF ">

Their success peaked in 1956 when they were selected to appear in the Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium, but, due to the Suez Crisis, the show was cancelled.

In 1956, the Liberal Party selected him as a candidate for a Santiago Senate seat, which he won with a substantial majority in 1957.

Since 1956, Purdue Pete has been a regular at Purdue games-usually wearing the head with a football or basketball uniform and portrayed by one of four selected members of the spirit squad.