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| 1956 |
| | | Eugene O'Neill's searing account of tensions within his own family, Long Day's Journey into Night, has its premiere in Stockholm | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Lawrence Ferlinghetti is prosecuted and acquitted for publishing Allen Ginsberg's Howl | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Hans Werner Henze's opera The Stag King has its premiere in Berlin | |
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| 1956 |
| | | John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger features in the first season of London's new English Stage Company | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Nasser disregards a French and British ultimatum to withdraw from the Suez canal | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Students are fired on in Budapest when protesting against repressive Communist policies | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Confronted by a popular uprising, Communist leaders in Hungary bring back the reformist prime minister Imre Nagy | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Israeli troops invade the Sinai peninsula, a province of Egypt bordering the Suez canal | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The British and French bomb Egyptian airfields, and land troops near Port Said and the Suez canal | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Russian and Warsaw Pact troops invade Hungary to end the uprising and arrest Imre Nagy | |
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