America - 1956AD
In 1956AD:
Heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano retired without being defeated.
American television news show
The Huntley-Brinkley Report
began.
Rock 'n roll singer Elvis Presley recorded his first hit
Heartbreak Hotel
.
Film actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
Eugene O'Neill's play
Long Day's Journey Into Night
was produced.
Lerner and Loewe's musical
My Fair Lady
opened in New York.
American beat poet Allen Ginsberg published
Howl and Other Poems
.
American writer Grace Metalious published
Peyton Place
.
black tennis player Althea Gibson won the U.S. Open and Wimbledon championships.
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