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  • Fresno, California, U.S.
    1956
    Visa Inc.

    Williams convinced senior BofA executives

    Fresno, California, U.S.
    1956

    The original idea was the brainchild of BofA's in-house product development think tank, the Customer Services Research Group, and its leader, Joseph P. Williams. Williams convinced senior BofA executives in 1956 to let him pursue what became the world's first successful mass mailing of unsolicited credit cards (actual working cards, not mere applications) to a large population.




  • Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
    1956
    Warren Buffett

    Buffett Partnership

    Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
    1956

    Buffett created Buffett Partnership, Ltd in 1956.




  • Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.
    Saturday Jan 28, 1956
    Neil Armstrong

    1st Marriage

    Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.
    Saturday Jan 28, 1956

    Armstrong met Janet Elizabeth Shearon, who was majoring in home economics, at a party hosted by Alpha Chi Omega. According to the couple, there was no real courtship, and neither could remember the exact circumstances of their engagement. They were married on January 28, 1956, at the Congregational Church in Wilmette, Illinois.




  • U.S.
    Mar, 1956
    DC Comics

    Showcase

    U.S.
    Mar, 1956

    In the mid-1950s, editorial director Irwin Donenfeld and publisher Liebowitz directed editor Julius Schwartz (whose roots lay in the science-fiction book market) to produce a one-shot Flash story in the try-out title Showcase.




  • Edwards Air Force Base, California, U.S.
    Thursday Mar 22, 1956
    Neil Armstrong

    His First Flight Incident

    Edwards Air Force Base, California, U.S.
    Thursday Mar 22, 1956

    On March 22, 1956, he was in a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, which was to air-drop a Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket. He sat in the right-hand pilot seat while the left-hand seat commander, Stan Butchart, flew the B-29. As they climbed to 30,000 feet (9 km), the number-four engine stopped and the propeller began windmilling (rotating freely) in the airstream. Hitting the switch that would stop the propeller's spinning, Butchart found it slowed but then started spinning again, this time even faster than the others; if it spun too fast, it would break apart. Their aircraft needed to hold an airspeed of 210 mph (338 km/h) to launch its Skyrocket payload, and the B-29 could not land with the Skyrocket attached to its belly. Armstrong and Butchart brought the aircraft into a nose-down attitude to increase speed, then launched the Skyrocket. At the instant of launch, the number-four engine propeller disintegrated. Pieces of it damaged the number-three engine and hit the number-two engine. Butchart and Armstrong were forced to shut down the damaged number-three engine, along with the number-one engine, due to the torque it created. They made a slow, circling descent from 30,000 ft (9 km) using only the number-two engine, and landed safely.




  • U.S.
    1956
    Anna May Wong

    Wong did guest spots on television series

    U.S.
    1956

    Wong also did guest spots on television series such as Adventures in Paradise, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.




  • Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
    1956
    Warren Buffett

    A Securities Analyst at Buffett Partnership

    Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
    1956

    Buffett worked as a securities analyst; from 1956 to 1969 at Buffett Partnership, Ltd.


  • Virginia, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 9, 1956
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Surgery for a bowel

    Virginia, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 9, 1956

    The president also suffered from Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory condition of the intestine, which necessitated surgery for a bowel obstruction on June 9, 1956. To treat the intestinal block, surgeons bypassed about ten inches of his small intestine. His scheduled meeting with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was postponed so he could recover at his farm. He was still recovering from this operation during the Suez Crisis.


  • Westchester, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Friday Jun 29, 1956
    Marilyn Monroe

    3rd Marriage

    Westchester, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Friday Jun 29, 1956

    Monroe and Miller were married in a civil ceremony at the Westchester County Court in White Plains, New York, on June 29, and two days later had a Jewish ceremony at the Waccabuc, New York home of Kay Brown, who was Miller's literary agent.


  • U.S.
    Friday Jun 29, 1956
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower championed and signed the bill that authorized the Interstate Highway System

    U.S.
    Friday Jun 29, 1956

    Eisenhower championed and signed the bill that authorized the Interstate Highway System in 1956.


  • U.S.
    1956
    Anna May Wong

    Bold Journey

    U.S.
    1956

    In 1956, Wong hosted one of the first U.S. documentaries on China narrated entirely by a Chinese American. Broadcast on the ABC travel series Bold Journey, the program consisted of film footage from her 1936 trip to China.


  • U.S.
    Tuesday Aug 21, 1956
    Audrey Hepburn

    Natasha Rostova in War and Peace

    U.S.
    Tuesday Aug 21, 1956

    Having become one of Hollywood's most popular box-office attractions, she starred in a series of successful films during the remainder of the decade, including her BAFTA- and Golden Globe-nominated role as Natasha Rostova in War and Peace (1956), an adaptation of the Tolstoy novel set during the Napoleonic wars, starring Henry Fonda and her husband Mel Ferrer.


  • Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
    1956
    IBM

    Artificial Intelligence

    Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
    1956

    In 1956 the company demonstrated the first practical example of artificial intelligence when Arthur L. Samuel of IBM's Poughkeepsie, New York, laboratory programmed an IBM 704 not merely to play checkers but "learn" from its own experience.


  • U.S.
    1956
    Bank of America

    Bank of America

    U.S.
    1956

    The passage of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 prohibited banks from owning non-banking subsidiaries such as insurance companies. Bank of America and Transamerica were separated, with the latter company continuing in the insurance sector. However, federal banking regulators prohibited Bank of America's interstate banking activity, and Bank of America's domestic banks outside California were forced into a separate company that eventually became First Interstate Bancorp, later acquired by Wells Fargo and Company in 1996.


  • Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
    1956
    Kroger

    The Kroger Company bought out Big Chain Stores

    Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
    1956

    In January 1956, the company bought out Big Chain Stores, Inc., a chain of seven stores based in Shreveport, Louisiana, later combining it with the Child's group. All of these chains adopted the Kroger banner in 1966.


  • U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 6, 1956
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    United States presidential election of 1956

    U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 6, 1956

    The United States presidential election of 1956 was held on November 6, 1956. Eisenhower, the popular incumbent, successfully ran for re-election. The election was a re-match of 1952, as his opponent in 1956 was Stevenson, a former Illinois governor, whom Eisenhower had defeated four years earlier. Compared to the 1952 election, Eisenhower gained Kentucky, Louisiana, and West Virginia from Stevenson, while losing Missouri. His voters were less likely to bring up his leadership record. Instead what stood out this time, "was the response to personal qualities— to his sincerity, his integrity and sense of duty, his virtue as a family man, his religious devotion, and his sheer likeableness".


  • U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 7, 1956
    United Nations

    UN peacekeeping force was established to end the Suez Crisis

    U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 7, 1956

    On 7 November 1956, the first UN peacekeeping force was established to end the Suez Crisis; however, the UN was unable to intervene against the USSR's simultaneous invasion of Hungary following that country's revolution.


  • U.S.
    Nov, 1956
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower forced an end to the combined British, French and Israeli invasion of Egypt

    U.S.
    Nov, 1956

    In November 1956, Eisenhower forced an end to the combined British, French and Israeli invasion of Egypt in response to the Suez Crisis, receiving praise from Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. Simultaneously he condemned the brutal Soviet invasion of Hungary in response to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 21, 1956
    International Monetary Fund

    Per Jacobsson

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 21, 1956

    Per Jacobsson (5 February 1894 – 5 May 1963) was a Swedish economist, and managing director of the International Monetary Fund from 21 November 1956 until his death in 1963.


  • New Yourk, U.S.
    1956
    Russell Bufalino

    Edgar D. Croswell

    New Yourk, U.S.
    1956

    A local state trooper named Edgar D. Croswell had been aware that Carmine Galante had been stopped by state troopers following a visit to Barbara's estate. A check of Galante by the troopers found that he was driving without a license and that he had an extensive criminal record in New York City.


  • Fresno, California, U.S.
    1956
    Visa Inc.

    Williams convinced senior BofA executives

    Fresno, California, U.S.
    1956

    The original idea was the brainchild of BofA's in-house product development think tank, the Customer Services Research Group, and its leader, Joseph P. Williams. Williams convinced senior BofA executives in 1956 to let him pursue what became the world's first successful mass mailing of unsolicited credit cards (actual working cards, not mere applications) to a large population.


  • Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
    1956
    Warren Buffett

    Buffett Partnership

    Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
    1956

    Buffett created Buffett Partnership, Ltd in 1956.


  • Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.
    Saturday Jan 28, 1956
    Neil Armstrong

    1st Marriage

    Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.
    Saturday Jan 28, 1956

    Armstrong met Janet Elizabeth Shearon, who was majoring in home economics, at a party hosted by Alpha Chi Omega. According to the couple, there was no real courtship, and neither could remember the exact circumstances of their engagement. They were married on January 28, 1956, at the Congregational Church in Wilmette, Illinois.


  • U.S.
    Mar, 1956
    DC Comics

    Showcase

    U.S.
    Mar, 1956

    In the mid-1950s, editorial director Irwin Donenfeld and publisher Liebowitz directed editor Julius Schwartz (whose roots lay in the science-fiction book market) to produce a one-shot Flash story in the try-out title Showcase.


  • Edwards Air Force Base, California, U.S.
    Thursday Mar 22, 1956
    Neil Armstrong

    His First Flight Incident

    Edwards Air Force Base, California, U.S.
    Thursday Mar 22, 1956

    On March 22, 1956, he was in a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, which was to air-drop a Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket. He sat in the right-hand pilot seat while the left-hand seat commander, Stan Butchart, flew the B-29. As they climbed to 30,000 feet (9 km), the number-four engine stopped and the propeller began windmilling (rotating freely) in the airstream. Hitting the switch that would stop the propeller's spinning, Butchart found it slowed but then started spinning again, this time even faster than the others; if it spun too fast, it would break apart. Their aircraft needed to hold an airspeed of 210 mph (338 km/h) to launch its Skyrocket payload, and the B-29 could not land with the Skyrocket attached to its belly. Armstrong and Butchart brought the aircraft into a nose-down attitude to increase speed, then launched the Skyrocket. At the instant of launch, the number-four engine propeller disintegrated. Pieces of it damaged the number-three engine and hit the number-two engine. Butchart and Armstrong were forced to shut down the damaged number-three engine, along with the number-one engine, due to the torque it created. They made a slow, circling descent from 30,000 ft (9 km) using only the number-two engine, and landed safely.


  • U.S.
    1956
    Anna May Wong

    Wong did guest spots on television series

    U.S.
    1956

    Wong also did guest spots on television series such as Adventures in Paradise, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.


  • Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
    1956
    Warren Buffett

    A Securities Analyst at Buffett Partnership

    Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
    1956

    Buffett worked as a securities analyst; from 1956 to 1969 at Buffett Partnership, Ltd.


  • Virginia, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 9, 1956
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Surgery for a bowel

    Virginia, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 9, 1956

    The president also suffered from Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory condition of the intestine, which necessitated surgery for a bowel obstruction on June 9, 1956. To treat the intestinal block, surgeons bypassed about ten inches of his small intestine. His scheduled meeting with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was postponed so he could recover at his farm. He was still recovering from this operation during the Suez Crisis.


  • Westchester, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Friday Jun 29, 1956
    Marilyn Monroe

    3rd Marriage

    Westchester, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Friday Jun 29, 1956

    Monroe and Miller were married in a civil ceremony at the Westchester County Court in White Plains, New York, on June 29, and two days later had a Jewish ceremony at the Waccabuc, New York home of Kay Brown, who was Miller's literary agent.


  • U.S.
    Friday Jun 29, 1956
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower championed and signed the bill that authorized the Interstate Highway System

    U.S.
    Friday Jun 29, 1956

    Eisenhower championed and signed the bill that authorized the Interstate Highway System in 1956.


  • U.S.
    1956
    Anna May Wong

    Bold Journey

    U.S.
    1956

    In 1956, Wong hosted one of the first U.S. documentaries on China narrated entirely by a Chinese American. Broadcast on the ABC travel series Bold Journey, the program consisted of film footage from her 1936 trip to China.


  • U.S.
    Tuesday Aug 21, 1956
    Audrey Hepburn

    Natasha Rostova in War and Peace

    U.S.
    Tuesday Aug 21, 1956

    Having become one of Hollywood's most popular box-office attractions, she starred in a series of successful films during the remainder of the decade, including her BAFTA- and Golden Globe-nominated role as Natasha Rostova in War and Peace (1956), an adaptation of the Tolstoy novel set during the Napoleonic wars, starring Henry Fonda and her husband Mel Ferrer.


  • Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
    1956
    IBM

    Artificial Intelligence

    Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
    1956

    In 1956 the company demonstrated the first practical example of artificial intelligence when Arthur L. Samuel of IBM's Poughkeepsie, New York, laboratory programmed an IBM 704 not merely to play checkers but "learn" from its own experience.


  • U.S.
    1956
    Bank of America

    Bank of America

    U.S.
    1956

    The passage of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 prohibited banks from owning non-banking subsidiaries such as insurance companies. Bank of America and Transamerica were separated, with the latter company continuing in the insurance sector. However, federal banking regulators prohibited Bank of America's interstate banking activity, and Bank of America's domestic banks outside California were forced into a separate company that eventually became First Interstate Bancorp, later acquired by Wells Fargo and Company in 1996.


  • Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
    1956
    Kroger

    The Kroger Company bought out Big Chain Stores

    Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
    1956

    In January 1956, the company bought out Big Chain Stores, Inc., a chain of seven stores based in Shreveport, Louisiana, later combining it with the Child's group. All of these chains adopted the Kroger banner in 1966.


  • U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 6, 1956
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    United States presidential election of 1956

    U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 6, 1956

    The United States presidential election of 1956 was held on November 6, 1956. Eisenhower, the popular incumbent, successfully ran for re-election. The election was a re-match of 1952, as his opponent in 1956 was Stevenson, a former Illinois governor, whom Eisenhower had defeated four years earlier. Compared to the 1952 election, Eisenhower gained Kentucky, Louisiana, and West Virginia from Stevenson, while losing Missouri. His voters were less likely to bring up his leadership record. Instead what stood out this time, "was the response to personal qualities— to his sincerity, his integrity and sense of duty, his virtue as a family man, his religious devotion, and his sheer likeableness".


  • U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 7, 1956
    United Nations

    UN peacekeeping force was established to end the Suez Crisis

    U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 7, 1956

    On 7 November 1956, the first UN peacekeeping force was established to end the Suez Crisis; however, the UN was unable to intervene against the USSR's simultaneous invasion of Hungary following that country's revolution.


  • U.S.
    Nov, 1956
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower forced an end to the combined British, French and Israeli invasion of Egypt

    U.S.
    Nov, 1956

    In November 1956, Eisenhower forced an end to the combined British, French and Israeli invasion of Egypt in response to the Suez Crisis, receiving praise from Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. Simultaneously he condemned the brutal Soviet invasion of Hungary in response to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 21, 1956
    International Monetary Fund

    Per Jacobsson

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 21, 1956

    Per Jacobsson (5 February 1894 – 5 May 1963) was a Swedish economist, and managing director of the International Monetary Fund from 21 November 1956 until his death in 1963.


  • New Yourk, U.S.
    1956
    Russell Bufalino

    Edgar D. Croswell

    New Yourk, U.S.
    1956

    A local state trooper named Edgar D. Croswell had been aware that Carmine Galante had been stopped by state troopers following a visit to Barbara's estate. A check of Galante by the troopers found that he was driving without a license and that he had an extensive criminal record in New York City.


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