1956


Events and Other Things that Happened That Year
 

1 My Fair Lady   26 Certs
2 The Interstate Highway Systems 27 Transatlantic phone cable
3 Doris Day's "Que Sera, Sera" 28 Johnny Cash's "I Walt the Line"
4 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 29 Battery-run-watches
5 The Herme's "Kelly bag" (inspired by Grace Kelly" 30 Uncle Miilton's Ant Farm
6 Yahtzee 31 As the World Turns
7 Colo, the first gorilla born in captivity 32 Diorissimo perfume
8 Plymouth Fury car (the star of Stephen King's Christine) 33 First wireless remote control
9 The Wizard of Oz on TV 34 Isolation of human growth hormone
10 The Masters Tournament on TV 35 Godzilla (U.S. Version)
11 Jif peanut butter 36 The Hungarian Revolution
12 Artificial intelligence 37 Pop Art
13 "in God We Trust" as our national motto 38 Profiles in Courage
14 Elvis's Hit "Heartbreak Hotel" 39 Four basic food group
15 Pampers 40 Tom Hanks born
16 Cytogenetics (look it up) 41 The Price is Right
17 First hard disk drive (from IBM) 42 Videotape recorder
18 "Dear Abby" 43 Nonstick frying pan
19 The Hundred and One Dalmatians (the book) 44 Chuck Berry's "Duck Walk"
20 Most of our classmates were 15 45 The King and I (the movie)
21 Toaster Ovens 46 NBC's Ann Curry
22 Peyton Place (the book) 47 Scotchgard
23 First climate-controlled shopping mall 48 Do-it-yourself hair color
24 Queen for a Day 49 Play-Doh
25 Carol Morris "Miss Universe" 50 And 50 years later the Class of 1959 are eligible to go on Medicare

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