Timeline Sunday 1 January 1956

Events on Sunday 1 January 1956 6

• 1956 1956: Juan Manuel Fangio Ferrari Fangio won his fourth championship, this time driving for Ferrari after Mercedes's withdrawal from the sport.
• 1956 – 1958 Early Australian Television First brought Dame Edna to Australian television audiences in 1956, gradually developing the character from a mousy housewife into something more flamboyant.
• 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 – 1959 Military Training and Education Attended the Norwegian Military Academy and the Cavalry Officers' Candidate School, followed by studies in political science, history and economics at Balliol College, Oxford. He would maintain a lifelong connection to the Norwegian armed forces.
• 1956 Sudan gains independence Sudan becomes independent Sudan became an independent republic, ending Anglo-Egyptian condominium rule that had lasted since 1899. The transition followed a vote by the Sudanese parliament in December 1955. It was one of the first African nations to gain independence in the postwar decolonization wave.
• 1956 – 1958 US Army Service Served in the US Army from 1956 to 1958, playing in army bands.