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| 1956 |
| | | The Sudan, declining the opportunity of union with Egypt, opts for independence as a separate state | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Brigitte Bardot is directed by her husband Roger Vadim in his first film, And God Created Woman | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Nikita Khrushchev denounces Stalin, dead now for three years, at a party congress in the USSR | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Jerome Robbins creates the ballet The Concert, to music by Chopin | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The musical My Fair Lady, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, opens on Broadway | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Tunisia wins independence from France, with Habib Bourguiba as prime minister | |
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| 1956 |
| | | French Morocco and Spanish Morocco win independence from the two colonial powers | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The English Stage Company, founded by George Devine, opens in London's Royal Court Theatre | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The first true synthesizer is put on the market by RCA Victor | |
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| 1956 |
| | | English poet Ted Hughes marries US poet Sylvia Plath | |
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