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Events on Monday 31 December 1956 7
1950 – 1956Musical Studies and Army ServiceStudied 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 – 1956New York UniversityStudied 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 – 1956First Songs and Homemade GuitarWrote 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 – 1956Joining Manchester UnitedSigned for Manchester United as a schoolboy and made his first-team debut in October 1956, scoring twice against Charlton Athletic.
1954 – 1956Manchester United Youth TeamJoined 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.
19561956: Juan Manuel FangioFerrariFangio won his fourth championship, this time driving for Ferrari after Mercedes's withdrawal from the sport.
1956Marcus TheoryDeveloped 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.