ABSTRACT
In the eventful year of 1956 the films Richard III (with Laurence Olivier), My Fair Lady, and Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments were released. Elvis Presley hit the US charts for the first time with “Heartbreak Hotel,” months later shocking audiences with his gyrating hips while performing “Hound Dog” on The Milton Berle Show. Don Larsen pitched a perfect game for the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the World Series and a thirteen-year-old Bobby Fischer defeated Donald Byrne, a grandmaster, in the Game of the Century. Arthur Miller was called to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Morocco and Tunisia declared independence from France and Pakistan became the first Islamic Republic. The SS Andrea Doria and SS Stockholm collided, the Suez Crisis erupted, and the Soviet Union squelched the Hungarian Revolution. Eisenhower signed a congressional resolution making “In God We Trust” the national motto.
