E C O N O M Y
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- Average US yearly income was $4,450
- Gas cost $.22.
- Average US house was $11,700.
- Average UK house was £2,280.
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N E W S
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- Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal.
- Israel attacks Egypt.
- Khrushchev denounces Stalin's excesses.
- US tests first hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll.
- Cuban revolution begins with the landing in Cuba of Fidel Castro
- Hungary invaded by Warsaw Pact troops to put down rebellious rioting.
- Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 signed into law, calling for the construction of the interstate highway system.
- Independence: Morocco from France.
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T R I V I A
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- My Fair Ladyopens on Broadway.
- First televised soap opera, As The World Turns starts on CBS.
- Elvis is rocking all over.
- Pele starts playing professional football (soccer) in Brazil at age 16.
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F I L M
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- We travel Around the World in 80 Days with David Niven.
- We get to visit Deborah Kerr and The King and I.
- The Duke is one of The Searchers.
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