The first Congolese university graduate was only in 1956, and virtually no one in the new nation had any idea of how to manage a country of such size.

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.

In 1956, J. Robert Van Pelt became the new president of the university.

In 1956, pressed by the growing demand for a large public university that offered graduate programs in Wisconsin's largest city, Wisconsin lawmakers merged Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee ( WSCM ) and the University of Wisconsin-Extension's Milwaukee division as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The state colleges were all granted university status as " Wisconsin State Universities " in 1964 ( with the exception of Wisconsin State College, Milwaukee, which became part of the University of Wisconsin in 1956 ).

In 1956, Gregory briefly returned to SIU after his discharge, but dropped out because he felt that the university " didn't want me to study, they wanted me to run ".

In 1956, National Tsing Hua University ( NTHU ) was reinstalled on its current campus in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Since its reinstallation, NTHU has developed from an institute focusing on Nuclear Science and Technology to that of a comprehensive research university offering degrees programs ranging from baccalaureate to doctorate in science, technology, engineering, humanities and social sciences, as well as management.

By 1958, when the Legislature again renamed the university as Mississippi State University, the Graduate School had been organized ( 1936 ), doctoral degree programs had begun ( 1951 ), the School of Forest Resources had been established ( 1954 ), and the College of Arts and Sciences had replaced the General Science School ( 1956 ).

The University of Waikato owes its existence to a determined group of Hamilton locals, who in 1956 launched a petition for a university to serve the needs of the South Auckland region.

Groundbreaking on the original site was in April 1956, and the university purchased a site in North Las Vegas for future expansion.

The Reynolda Campus, the university's main campus, is located north of downtown Winston-Salem, after the university moved there in 1956.

In 1956, he left his university studies to study film at the French national film school, IDHEC.

On January 18, 1956, Monmouth received accreditation to grant four-year Bachelor's degrees, and in March 1995, it received its university charter from the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education.

Wayne University was renamed Wayne State University in 1956, and the institution became a constitutionally established university by popularly adopted amendment to the Michigan Constitution in 1959.

In 1957, within months of working with the colonial civil service, he left and joined the military as one of the first and few university graduates to join the army: O. Olutoye ( 1956 ); C. Odumegwu-Ojukwu ( 1957 ), E. A. Ifeajuna and C. O. Rotimi ( 1960 ), and A. Ademoyega ( 1962 ).

ODU awarded its first bachelor's degrees in 1956, became Old Dominion College in 1962, and attained university status in 1969.

It arose out of the government's decision in 1956 to enforce segregation in universities in South Africa In 1959, the apartheid government passed the Extension of University Education Act, which achieved the enforcement of university apartheid.

As the number of colleges expanded, it was upgraded to a provincial university in 1956, and then a national university in 1971.

The first attempt to integrate the university occurred in 1956 when Autherine Lucy successfully enrolled on February 3 as a graduate student in library sciences after having secured a court order preventing the university from rejecting her application on the basis of race.

Ricœur taught at the University of Strasbourg between 1948 and 1956, the only French university with a Protestant faculty of theology.

The Stockholm Institute of Education ( Swedish: Lärarhögskolan i Stockholm ) was a university college in Stockholm, Sweden that was founded in 1956.

* 1956: University of Tasmania Council dismisses Professor Sydney Orr, alleging improper conduct by him with female student ; Orr launches unsuccessful court action against university for wrongful dismissal

The controlling pattern was first displayed in the Hungary-Suez crisis of November 1956.

Upon administrative approval of the reclassification, he was ordered to report for induction on June 11, 1956, but failed to do so.

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.

In his answer thereto, he advised the Board that he had made no such statement in 1956, and asserted that his only claim to `` pioneering '' was in 1952.

Steady radiation which was presumably of thermal origin was observed from Venus at 3.15 and 9.4 cm, and from Mars and Jupiter at 3.15 cm in 1956 ( Mayer, McCullough, and Sloanaker, 1958, A, B, C ), and from Saturn at 3.75 cm in 1957 ( Drake and Ewen, 1958 ).

Splenomegaly was first noted in 1956, and a sternal marrow biopsy at that time showed `` scattered foci of fibrosis '' suggestive of myelofibrosis.

When Dag Hammarskjold was negotiating the Middle East peace after Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt, he soon found himself speaking the mysterious phrases of Cairo, a language as anarchic as Casey Stengel's.

He wants to be `` brutally frank and say that these rebellions would be hopeless -- far, far more hopeless than was the Hungarian revolution of 1956 ''.

For example, the analysis of the debris at the testing site of the first U. S. hydrogen bomb, Ivy Mike, ( 1 November 1952, Enewetak Atoll ), revealed high concentrations of various actinides including americium ; due to military secrecy, this result was published only in 1956.

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.

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

In the Middle East, the Suez crisis of 1956 as well as the preceding crisis in Iran, demonstrated the sharp upsurge of nationalism, which was as assertive of the region's social and economic aspirations as of its political independence.

The development of this department at the British Museum moved the focus for the development of conservation from Germany to Britain, and in 1956 Plenderleith wrote a significant handbook called The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, it was this book rather than Rathgen's that is commonly seen as the major source for the development of conservation as we know it today.

Vindhya Pradesh was merged into Madhya Pradesh on November 1, 1956.

On November 1, 1956, it was merged into the state of Rajasthan

Aberdare, during its boom years, was considered a centre of Welsh culture: it hosted the first National Eisteddfod in 1861, again in 1885, and in 1956 at Aberdare Park where the Gorsedd standing stones still exist.

He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.

The Stadium was the scene Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech in 1939, Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, Roger Maris ' record breaking 61st home run in 1961, and Reggie Jackson's 3 home runs to clinch Game 6 of the 1977 World Series.

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.

It was at the Watkinson library that Whorf became friends with the young boy, John B. Carroll, who later went on to study psychology under B. F. Skinner, and who in 1956 edited and published a selection of Whorf's essays as Language, Thought and Reality.

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