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American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: The governor of Arkansas calls out the National Guard to prevent…
Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
Little Rock schools integration crisis: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little…
President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.
The motto In God We Trust first appears on U.S. paper currency.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he is refused…
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he is refused…
The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
The 23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by the Queen of Canada.
Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into…
SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas
Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia
The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public
In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean
The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferrin
In Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist govern
The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U