* 1956 – A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Harrison, a dual Australian Champion Beach Sprinter who went on to row in the coxless four at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, had been introduced to rowing after a chance meeting with one of the fathers of modern athletic physiological training and testing, and the coach of the Leichhardt Guinea Pigs, Professor Frank Cotton.

By the time she was 16, she earned a berth on the U. S. Olympic track and field team and came home from the 1956 Melbourne Games with an Olympic bronze medal in the 4 x 100 m relay to show her high school classmates.

* 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia

* June 10 – 1956 Summer Olympics: Equestrian events open in Stockholm, Sweden ( all other events are held in November in Melbourne, Australia ).

* November 22 – The 1956 Summer Olympics begin in Melbourne, Australia.

Also, similar to his father's gold medals in rowing at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics, he competed in the sport at the 1948, 1952 and the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where, on November 27, seven months after his sister's Monaco wedding, he won a bronze medal, which he gave to her as a gift of the occasion.

* Tony Byrne, bronze medal winner for Ireland 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia in the lightweight division.

* The Official Films Of The Olympic Games: Melbourne 1956 ( Volume 2 )

Morrow then went to the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where he won three gold medals and was the leader of the American sprint team.

Atlanta's main rivals were Toronto, whose front running bid that began in 1986 seemed almost sure to succeed after Canada had held a successful 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and Melbourne, Australia, who hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics and felt that the Olympic Games should return to Australia.

In 1956, all carriers in the torch relay to Stockholm, where the equestrian events were held instead of in Melbourne, travelled on horseback.

At the Melbourne Olympics of 1956, the magnesium / aluminium fuel used for the final torch was certainly spectacular, but also managed to injure its holder.

In the 1956 Melbourne Games in Australia, local veterinary student Barry Larkin protested against the relay by tricking onlookers by carrying a fake flame, consisting of a pair of underpants set on fire in a plum pudding can, attached to a chair leg.

They were also the third Games to be held in autumn, after the 1956 Games in Melbourne and the 1964 Games in Tokyo.

The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations.

Ratzeburg is known for its Olympic champion Ratzeburg Rowing Club, which was responsible for training, among others, the Gold Medalists at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.

He threw the 6 kg ( 13. 2 lb ) Hammer Throw 252 ' 4 " to become the first American to win an international championship in the Hammer Throw since 1956 when Hal Connolly won the Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia.

* Bobby Morrow, three-time gold medal winner at 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, and Sportsman of the Year in 1956 by Sports Illustrated magazine.

Australia has generally been a world power in Olympic swimming since the 1956 Melbourne Olympics ; swimmers like Dawn Fraser, Kieren Perkins and Ian Thorpe have taken multiple gold medals.

* Australian football at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Entering the Olympics in 1928, India won all five games without conceding a goal and won from 1932 until 1956 and then in 1964 and 1980.

World Judo Championships have been held since 1956, Judo at the Summer Olympics was introduced in 1964.

Internationally, the MCG is remembered as the centrepiece stadium of both the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

The Oakleigh Motel in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia, constructed using Googie architecture during the 1956 Summer Olympics as one of the first motels in the state, was added to the Victorian Heritage Register in 2009.

Artificial ices entered the long track competitions with the 1960 Winter Olympics, and the competitions in 1956 on Lake Misurina were the last Olympic competitions on natural ice.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1956 Summer Olympics

* 1956 Winter Olympics held in Cortina d ' Ampezzo, Italy

In 1924, the event was open to male civilians, although non-commissioned Army officers could not participate in the Olympics until 1956.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1956 Summer Olympics

With the national team he won the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 European Championship.

Dillard attempted to qualify for a third Olympics in 1956, but failed.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1956 Summer Olympics

This doctrine was announced to retroactively justify the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 that ended the Prague Spring, along with earlier Soviet military interventions, such as the invasion of Hungary in 1956.

During his recovery from a heart attack late in 1955, he huddled with his closest advisors to evaluate the GOP's potential candidates ; the group, in addition to his doctor, concluded a second term was well advised, and he announced in February 1956 he would run again.

In 1956, under pressure from the British, the council of male elders ( the Njuri Nchecke ) in Meru, Kenya, announced a ban on clitoridectomy.

In the 20th century it was reintroduced, and Venerable Pope Pius XII ( 1939 – 58 ) announced his beatification on 7 October 1956.

In May 1956, the brothers announced they were putting Warner Bros. on the market.

In the week before the convention opened, Kennedy received two new challengers when Lyndon B. Johnson, the powerful Senate Majority Leader from Texas, and Adlai Stevenson, the party's nominee in 1952 and 1956, officially announced their candidacies ( they had both privately been working for the nomination for some time ).

On 26 July 1956, in retaliation for the loss of funding and to help pay for the Aswan project, Nasser gave a speech in Alexandria where he denounced Western influence in the Arab world and announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal Company, in breach of the agreement he had signed on 19 October 1954.

One of Macmillan's innovations at the Treasury was the introduction of premium bonds, announced in his budget of 17 April 1956.

In July 1956, Jack, Harry, and Albert announced they were putting Warner Bros. on the market.

In April 2009, Feld Entertainment, parent company to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, announced that " The Greatest Show on Earth " would perform on Coney Island for the entire summer of 2009, the first time since July 16, 1956 that Ringling Bros. had performed in this location.

Marciano announced his retirement on April 27, 1956.

On 26 July 1956, with wide Egyptian acclaim, Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal as well as fair compensation for the former owners.

A new road from London to South Wales was first proposed in the 1930s, and the Ministry of Transport announced plans for the M4 as one of the first major post-war trunk road improvement projects in 1956.

At a conference in Coscio de Arroscia, Italy in 1956, the Lettrists joined the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus to set a proper definition for the idea announced by Gil J. Wolman " Unitary Urbanism-the synthesis of art and technology that we call for — must be constructed according to certain new values of life, values which now need to be distinguished and disseminated.

In 1956, after the Soviet Union's suppression of the Hungarian revolution, Aimé Césaire announced his resignation from the PCF in a text entitled Lettre à Maurice Thorez.

In 1955, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank announced a Li ' l Abner musical to open on Broadway in 1956, followed by a film of the musical.

On 28 January 1989 young Politburo member Imre Pozsgay announced during an interview with the radio program 168 Hours that the Poliburo ` s historical sub-committee regarded the events of 1956 as a ' people ’ s uprising '.

In 1956, he announced plans to devote another billion to capital investment, the largest such sum ever invested by a single firm in a single year.

The KSČ leadership virtually ignored the Soviet thaw announced by Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

" His " Grand Plan " for highways, announced in 1954, led to the 1956 legislative breakthrough that created the Highway Trust Fund to accelerate construction of the Interstate System.

On January 15, 1956, he held a meeting and announced that he was naming his new style of karate Isshin-ryu.

Following the advice of a specialist, Hutton announced his retirement from first-class cricket in January 1956.

In July 1956, the New Zealand Electricity Department announced the possibility of a project using the Manapouri water, an underground power station and underground tailrace tunnel discharging the water at Deep Cove in Doubtful Sound.

On September 15, 1956, Collyer announced that the next show would gain a new sponsor, and if the Super Bonus was not won Fresh and Sylvania would donate the Super Bonus Pot to charity.