Where can I find headlines about the week of December 1, 1956? As well as interesting facts re. 1956.?

Question

i need this to help out for my granparent's 50th anniversary party

Answer 1

Go to www.newyorktimes.com www.washingtonpost.com www.chicagosun.com losangelestimes.com

Answer 2

"Candide" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 73 performances

Alain Mimoun wins 13th Olympics marathon (2:25:00.0)

Frank Robinson (NL) & Luis Aparicio (AL) voted Rookie of the Year

Indonesian VP Mohammed Hatta, resigns

Answer 3

Try this on for size: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/archive.htm

Searched for 'December 1, 1956' Results 1 - 10 of about 10.

USNews.com: Riding the Growth Track
... has plunged some 40 percent against the dollar since mid-December, slashing the ... 1
export market ... rates economic peak hike and economic peak August 1956 12 months ...
www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/950130/archive_011445_2.htm - 1995-01-30

USNews.com: Sure, Kerry's got what the elder Bush used to call Big ...
... The last time a candidate deemed an intellectual was nominated was 1956, when Adlai ...
And Bill Clinton warned his fellow Democrats in December that voters would ...
www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/040308/8politics.htm - 2004-03-08

USNews.com: A Choosy Guide to the Olympics
... who became an instant celebrity after his December victory in ... THE PURSUIT, Saturday,
February 15, 1-6 PM. ... to bring home its first bobsledding medal since 1956. ...
www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/920217/archive_017272_2.htm - 1992-02-17

USNews.com: A Sporting Chance?
... afford. Samantha Clark, a plaintiff in the LSU case, will graduate in December,
at the end of the next soccer season. ... 1956. Althea ...
www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/940411/archive_012713_3.htm - 1994-04-11

USNews.com: East-West Divide
... NOVEMBER 1956. ... APRIL 1961. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin gains worldwide fame as
first man to travel in space aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft. ... DECEMBER 1979. ...
www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/991018/archive_002589.htm - 1999-10-18

USNews.com: Making History (3/22/04)
... After hearing arguments in December 1953, he went to work on his fellow ... By 1956,
nearly 100 southern congressmen had signed a document called the Southern ...
www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/articles/040322/22history_4.htm - 2004-03-22

USNews.com: Pope John Paul II: The end of communism (4/2/05)
... In December of 1989, he visited the pope in Rome, and after a lengthy ... that the Kremlin
had reinforced with its invasions of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia ...
www.usnews.com/usnews/news/pope/articles/pocommunism_4.htm

USNews.com: Separate but equal was the law of the land, until one ...
... After hearing arguments in December 1953, he went to work on his fellow ... By 1956,
nearly 100 southern congressmen had signed a document called the Southern ...
www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/040322/22history_4.htm - 2004-03-22

USNews.com: The Past As Prologue
... prosecuted and punished for the imposition of martial law in December 1981. ... like
those that followed reformist moves in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in ...
www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/010528/archive_000200.htm - 2001-05-28

USNews.com: Opinion: Michael Barone: Barone Blog: Tolerating ...
... In time—after Khrushchev's speech denouncing Stalin's crimes in February 1956, after
the Soviet suppression of the rebellion in Hungary in November 1956 ...
www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/baroneblog/archives/060313/tolerating_into.htm - 2006-03-13

Just copy and paste this date in the search bar! December 1, 1956

Answer 4

Go to the New York Times' website and search in their online archive for headlines of that time. "In the still of the night" came out in '56, but I don't know what month. Hope that helps.

Answer 5

Just put in the year in the yahoo search bar. It will bring up sites to check out.