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April 19, 1956
On April 19, 1956, actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco. César, Anne Glover, Beatrice Ask would arrive in the same year.
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Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
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.
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1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1956th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 956th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1950s decade.
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1956 Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco. 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.
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- April 26 SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
- April 3 Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
- April 30 Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
- April 5 Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
- April 7 Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco.
- August 27 The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
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