1956

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Years : 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years: 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

Contents

[edit] Events

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Hit Songs

  • Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
  • I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

[edit] New Books

  • Boon Island - Kenneth Roberts
  • Boy in Darkness - Mervyn Peake
  • Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz
  • A Certain Smile - Françoise Sagan
  • Diamonds Are Forever - Ian Fleming
  • Don't Go Near the Water - William Brinkley
  • Eloise - Kay Thompson
  • The Fall (La Chute) - Albert Camus
  • Heike Story - Eiji Yoshikawa
  • The Last Battle - C. S. Lewis
  • The Last Hurrah - Edwin O'Connor
  • The Last of the Wine - Mary Renault
  • Lucy Crown - Irwin Shaw
  • The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir
  • Minority Report - Philip K. Dick
  • Misty of Chincoteague - Marguerite Henry
  • The Mysterious North - Pierre Berton
  • The Naked Sun - Isaac Asimov
  • The Nun's Story - Kathryn Hulme
  • Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz
  • Peyton Place - Grace Metalious
  • Les racines du ciel - Romain Gary
  • Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
  • The Sweet Science - A. J. Liebling
  • Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold - C. S. Lewis
  • The Tribe That Lost Its Head - Nicholas Monsarrat
  • The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster - Norman Mailer
  • The Wizard of Linn - A. E. van Vogt

[edit] Films Released

  • The Ten Commandments