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The Nation 1956
Adlai E. Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
President Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E. Stevenson (D)
Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee
Louisville Kentucky public schools integrates
Black students enter and are barred from Clay Kentucky elementary school
Montgomery, Ala, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses
Martin Luther King, Jr's home bombed
Autherine J Lucy admitted to University of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot University of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black)
U.S. Supreme Court ends race segregation on buses.
White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
US. Methodist church disallows race separation
Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee, Florida
Nobel prizes 1956
Physics – William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain
Chemistry – Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Semenov
Physiology or Medicine – André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W. Richards
Literature – Juan Ramón Jiménez
Peace – Not Awarded
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Hungarian Freedom Fighters
"The Man of the Year had many faces, but he was not faceless; he had many names, but he was not nameless. History would know him by the face, intense, relentless, desperate and determined, that he had worn on the evening of Oct. 23 in the streets of Budapest; history would know him by the name he had chosen for himself during his dauntless contest with Soviet tanks." Time man of the Year the Hungarian Freedom Fighter.
The World 1956
Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa
Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
Britain abolishes death penalty
French government decides to sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria French government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria
72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control
Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm
Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes Prime Minister of Hungary 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest U.S.S.R. sends tanks into Hungary and threatens to bomb Budapest Holland and Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary
U.N. demands U.S.S.R. leave Hungary
The Class of 1956
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