Born in 1956

£1 in 1956 would be worth approximately £34.80 in today's money.

A selection from Wikipedia's '1956 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

• 17 February – The Midlands becomes the first region outside of London to receive ITV when ATV Midlands begins broadcasting; ABC, the weekend station, launches the following day.
• 3 May – Granada Television begins broadcasting with a base in Manchester, extending ITV's coverage to Northern England and later Yorkshire.
• 8 May – First performance of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger by the newly formed English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre. Alan Bates has his first major role as Cliff.
• 22 July – The first UK Albums Chart is published, in Record Mirror. Frank Sinatra's Songs for Swingin' Lovers! tops it for the first two weeks.
• 26 July – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser announces the nationalisation of the Suez Canal triggering the Suez Crisis.
• 25 September – The TAT-1 transatlantic telephone cable between the UK and North America is inaugurated.
• 12 December – The Irish Republican Army launches its Border Campaign in Northern Ireland with co-ordinated attacks on official premises.
• 31 December – The Flanders and Swann revue At the Drop of a Hat opens in London.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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