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Pravda repts Tito and USSR leaders will seek to create world popular front of Socialists and Communists, comment on Tito visit to USSR
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Ala Atty Gen Patterson charges NAACP hired or 'otherwise' paid Lucy and Hudson to seek admission to Ala U; R Wilkins denial
Chou says hope for 'peaceful liberation' becomes brighter; says Peiping cannot agree to continuing present status but would join in pledge to use peaceful means to settle dispute and will not be frightened by Dulles brink of war policy; insists dispute is purely internal; charges US uses Geneva talks to 'legitimize occupation'; US reaction
Pakistan charges Brit sale of 60 jet bombers to India violates Baghdad Pact
1956Jan Lammers, Dutch race car driver[†]
Johannes Antonius "Jan" Lammers is a Dutch racecar driver, most notable for winning the 1988 24 Hours of Le Mans world endurance race, for Silk Cut Jaguar/TWR; after four seasons in Formula One racing, from 1979 through 1982, for the F1 teams of Shadow, ATS, Ensign and Theodore, respectively. After a world-record setting ten-year hiatus, Lammers made a brief Formula One comeback, for two races, with team March in 1992. Aside from racing in these two of the highest leagues of global auto-sports, Lammers has raced in an exceptionally wide number of racing series and competitions, domestic and abroad, over four decades.
1956Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor and director (born 1886)[†]
Jean Pierre Carl Buron, known professionally as Jean Hersholt, was a Danish-American actor. He is most famous for starring on the CBS radio series Dr. Christian from 1937–1954, which later inspired a TV series with the same name from 1956-1957. He also co-starred with Shirley Temple in the film Heidi (1937). When asked how to pronounce his name, he told The Literary Digest, "in English her'sholt; in Danish, hairs'hult." From 1924 to 1955, he had 140 motion picture credits: 75 silent film and 65 "talkies"; he directed four.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]