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'''1956''' was a [[year]].

==Events==
===Dated===
On [[1 June]], [[Elvis Presley]] performed on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'' in [[New York City]], causing numerous complaints after he sang "[[Hound Dog]]". The [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]] attempted to visit the studio for the performance, but instead landed in [[London]] on the same date in [[1953]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Idiot's Lantern (TV story)}})

On [[23 June]], [[Eleanor Grainger]] gave her husband [[Edward Grainger]] a party for his 50th [[birthday]]. The party took place the day before his birthday. The [[Eighth Doctor]] and his [[companion]]s [[Samson Griffin|Samson]] and [[Gemma Griffin]] arrived at his house to get rid of a [[ghost]] which had been haunting the family. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dear John (short story)}})

On [[21 December]], the [[racial segregation]] of [[bus]]es ended in [[Montgomery]], [[Alabama]], as a direct result of the [[Montgomery Bus Boycott]], which began on [[5 December]] of the [[1955|previous year]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rosa (TV story)}})

===Undated===
[[France]] granted the North [[Africa]]n colony of [[Kebiria]] its independence, but [[civil war]] quickly erupted in that country. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dancing the Code (novel)}})

The [[Soviet Union]] invaded [[Hungary]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|1963: The Assassination Games (audio story)}})

[[Elvis Presley]] performed on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'', which was recorded in [[New York City]]. The [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]] attempted to travel to this date to view this event, but ended up being detoured to [[London]] on [[1 June]] [[1953]]. ([[TV]]: {{Cs|The Idiot's Lantern (TV story)}})

[[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] met [[Janet McKay]] on the Isle of [[Hoy]], [[Orkney]], [[Scotland]]. Along with the [[First Doctor]], they fought the [[Bog wraith]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Revenants (audio story)}})

[[Allison Williams]] began attending the [[University of Cambridge]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Forgotten Village (audio story)}})

[[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] and [[Leslie Johnston]] graduated from the [[Sandhurst Military School]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Enfolded Time (short story)}})

[[Ben Jackson]], at the age of fourteen, snuck aboard a cargo ship headed for [[Singapore]]. When he was found out, the captain offered him a proper job on his fifteenth birthday, which was four months away. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Invasion of the Cat-People (novel)}})

===Alternate timeline===
In an [[alternate timeline]] accidentally created by the [[Fifth Doctor]], the [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']] did not sink on [[7 May]] [[1915]] and a petty criminal named [[Eric Charles Vincent]] (who died in the sinking of the ''Lusitania'' in the proper timeline) killed [[Alexander Fleming]] in a botched robbery attempt in [[December]] [[1927]] before the biologist discovered [[penicillin]]. Without the protection offered by penicillin, Earth fell prey to new strains of [[meningitis]] and [[pneumonia]] in 1956 and the survivors never developed a space programme. Consequently, the [[Knights of Velyshaa]] were not defeated by the [[Earth Alliance]] in [[3562]] as they otherwise would have been. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Sirens of Time (audio story)}})

==Births and deaths==
===Dated===
On [[1 February]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]] was born to [[Eddie Smith|Nigel Collins Smith]] and [[Barbara Smith|Alice Trent Smith]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Roving Reporter (short story)}}) Other accounts dated her birth to [[1951]], to parents named Eddie and Barbara. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}})

In the [[autumn]], [[Maxwell Edison]] was born. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Stockbridge Showdown (comic story)}})

On [[23 December]], [[Gerry Billing]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Imaginary Friends (novel)}})

===Undated===
[[Carolyn McConnell]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Vampire Science (novel)}})

[[Jim Waters]] was born. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)}})

Edmund Trevithick's wife [[Margaret Trevithick|Margaret]] died. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Nightshade (novel)}})

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