1956

American actress, Princess of Monaco from 1956 to 1982

Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956 until her death in 1982. Prior to her marriage, she achieved stardom in several significant Hollywood films in the early to mid-1950s. She received an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards, and was ranked 13th on the American Film Institute's 25 Greatest Female Stars list.

First container ship

SS Ideal X, a converted World War II T-2 oil tanker, was the first commercially successful container ship.

Tornado outbreak in the central United States

From April 2–3, 1956, a large, deadly tornado outbreak affected the Great Plains, parts of the South, and the upper Midwest in the contiguous United States, especially the Great Lakes region. S. state of Michigan on April 3.

Vice President of the United States from 1949 to 1953

Alben William Barkley was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under President Harry S. Truman. S.

1955–1958 sociopolitical change in Cuba

The Cuban Revolution was the military and political movement that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959. The revolution began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état, in which Batista overthrew the emerging Cuban democracy and consolidated power. Among those who opposed the coup was Fidel Castro, then a young lawyer, who initially tried to challenge the takeover through legal means in the Cuban courts.

Period of Spanish history (1936–1975)

Francoist Spain, also known as the Franco dictatorship, was the period of Spanish history during which Francisco Franco ruled first Nationalist-held territories of Spain during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939 and then the whole of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. During this period, the country was officially known as the Spanish State.