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A Sproul resigns as pres as of June 30; NY Trust Co vp A Hayes opptd successor; Sproul press conf; comment; his 36-yr service with System, 15 yrs as NY Bank pres, revd
Urges wider NATO authority in pol field, s, London
MOSCOW, April 30--Nikita S. Khrushchev returned from Britain today with his gaze fixed on the United States. A few minutes after he alighted at Moscow's Central Airport
34th St-Midtown Assn proposes study of plan for night delivery to stores
BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 30--Hungary's Communist Government apparently has come to the conclusion that it can have quick, which means compulsory, collectivization of agriculture or it can have more food, but not both at the same time.
1956LeRoy Samse, American pole vaulter (born 1883)[†]
LeRoy Perry Samse was an American athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault. Samse represented the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis, United States in the pole vault where he won the silver medal.
1956The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.[†]
Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis (polio). Two types are used: an inactivated poliovirus given by injection (IPV) and a weakened poliovirus given by mouth (OPV). The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends all children be fully vaccinated against polio. The two vaccines have eliminated polio from most of the world, and reduced the number of cases reported each year from an estimated 350,000 in 1988 to 33 in 2018.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]