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| 1956 |
| | | The Visit, by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt, has its premiere in Zürich | |
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| 1956 |
| | | After a plebiscite British Togo is merged with the neighbouring colony of the Gold Coast | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The husband-and-wife team Charles and Ray Eames design a much copied lounge chair and footstool, made of moulded plywood with padded leather cushions | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Anastasio Somoza is assassinated on a visit to Panama, but the dictatorship of Nicaragua remains in his family | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Karlheinz Stockhausen's Song of the Children combines electronic sounds and the human voice | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The Sadler's Wells Ballet, dancing now at Covent Garden, is renamed the Royal Ballet | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Russian dancer Galina Ulanova proves a sensation on tour in Europe and the USA in her late forties | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The USA and Britain withdraw their offer of financial aid for Nasser's Aswan dam | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Egypt's president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez canal and wins Soviet finance for his Aswan dam | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Sicilian author Giuseppe de Lampedusa completes his novel The Leopard, but does not live to see it published | |
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