Historical Events in 1956
30 curated events dated to this year, and 55 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1956
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The Rock and Roll Dance Revolution
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Container Shipping Begins with the Ideal X
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Death of Fiancé
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Modern Shipping Container Invented
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Publication of Howl and Obscenity Trial (1956)
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Secret Protocol of Sèvres and the Suez Crisis
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Suez Crisis
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Allen Ginsberg Writes 'Howl', Celebrating the Marked and Marginalised Body
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Beat Generation Emerges
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Construction of the Interstate Highway System Begins in the USA
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Invention of Water Gel Slurry Explosives by Melvin Cook
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Minamata disease identifies industrial mercury poisoning
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Opening of the First Fully Enclosed Suburban Shopping Mall
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Pablo Neruda's 'Ode to Bread'
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Publication of 'The Collected Poems of Louis Untermeyer'
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Southdale Center Opens
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Border Campaign Begins
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Dorothy Hodgkin Determines Vitamin B12 Structure
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Indian Metric Transition
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Invention of the Videotape Recorder
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Mass Habitat Fragmentation from US Interstate Highway System
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Pop Art Movement Begins
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Publication of 'The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats'
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Publication of 'The Last Poems'
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UK Clean Air Act Response to Smog
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Bezymianny Eruption
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Springhill Mine Disasters
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Toast-R-Oven Debut
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The Great Earthquake of 1956 in Gujarat
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The Phantom Slasher of Taipei (1956)
Poets alive in 1956
55 poets
Poets in 1956
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