A Look Back At
Born in 1956
What Was Life Like in 1956?
Who Was in Charge?
President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What Things Cost
Gas (per gallon)
$0.30
Loaf of Bread
$0.18
Average House
$10,000
Weekly Wage
$73
Events of 1956 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '1956 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- February 24 – Doris Day records her most famous song, "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)"; it is from Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, in which Day co-stars with James Stewart.
- March 15 – The Broadway musical My Fair Lady opens in New York City.
- April 2 – The first episodes of As the World Turns and The Edge of Night are broadcast on CBS television.
- June 29 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Federal Aid Highway Act, creating the Interstate Highway System.
- July 4 – A U.S. Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft makes its first flight over the Soviet Union.
- September 13 – The hard disk drive is invented by an IBM team led by Reynold B. Johnson.
- October 5 – Cecil B. DeMille's epic film The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston as Moses, is released in the U.S. It will be in the top ten of the worldwide list of highest-grossing films of all time, adjusted for inflation.
- November 6 – 1956 United States presidential election: Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democratic challenger Adlai E. Stevenson in a rematch of their contest four years earlier.
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