Timeline December 1956

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• 1950 – 1956 Musical Studies and Army Service Studied at the Mannes School of Music, McGill University and the Music Academy of the West under Darius Milhaud. Served in the US Army, playing piano and arranging music.
• 1952 – 1956 New York University Studied music education at New York University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1956. Earned the nickname The Newark Flash while playing in the city's jazz scene.
• 1953 – 1956 First Songs and Homemade Guitar Wrote her first song, Little Tiny Tassle Top, and fashioned her first guitar from an old mandolin and two bass guitar strings. By the age of ten, she was performing on The Cas Walker Show on local television in Knoxville.
• 1953 – 1956 Joining Manchester United Signed for Manchester United as a schoolboy and made his first-team debut in October 1956, scoring twice against Charlton Athletic.
• 1954 – 1956 Manchester United Youth Team Joined Manchester United as a 15-year-old schoolboy, developing under the tutelage of Matt Busby and Jimmy Murphy as one of the celebrated Busby Babes.
• 1956 1956: Juan Manuel Fangio Ferrari Fangio won his fourth championship, this time driving for Ferrari after Mercedes's withdrawal from the sport.
• 1956 Marcus Theory Developed the theory of electron transfer reactions that would win him the Nobel Prize. The theory predicted how the rate of electron transfer depends on the driving force and the reorganisation energy of the molecules involved, including the counterintuitive 'inverted region' where increasing the driving force actually slows the reaction.
• 1956 1956 Summer Olympics XVI Olympiad - Melbourne First Games held in the Southern Hemisphere. Winner: Soviet Union.
• 1956 Fats Domino appears in The Girl Can't Help It Film One of the rock and roll stars in the film.
• 1956 Little Richard appears in The Girl Can't Help It Film Sings the title song in the Jayne Mansfield film.
• 1956 Granma lands in Cuba Castro's rebels land in Cuba to launch revolution Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and about 80 other rebels landed in Cuba aboard the yacht Granma to launch an armed uprising against the government of Fulgencio Batista. Most of the landing party was killed or captured shortly after coming ashore. The survivors regrouped in the Sierra Maestra mountains to begin a guerrilla campaign that would topple Batista in 1959.
• 1956 Jerry Lee Lewis plays the Million Dollar Quartet session With Elvis, Cash and Perkins An impromptu session at Sun Studio.
• 1956 – 1961 The Treason Trial begins 156 arrested, Mandela among them It ran for four and a half years and ended in acquittal for every defendant.
• 1956 – present Larry Bird The Hick from French Lick 3-time NBA champion and MVP; known for his elite shooting and fierce competitiveness.
• 1956 Japan joins the United Nations Japan ends postwar diplomatic isolation Japan was admitted to the United Nations, ending its postwar diplomatic isolation. The admission followed the Soviet Union's decision to drop its veto after Japan and the USSR restored diplomatic relations. It marked Japan's full return to the international community after World War II.