January 1st, 1956

Born on January 1st, 1956

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What happened on January 1st, 1956?

January 1st, 1956

Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan

What else happened on January 1st?

January 1st, 2019

The NASA space probe New Horizons flew by the trans-Neptunian object Arrokoth, making it the farthest object visited by a spacecraft.

January 1st, 2009

A nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand, killed 66 patrons celebrating the New Year.

January 1st, 2007

Adam Air Flight 574 crashed into the sea off Polewali, Indonesia, killing all 102 people on board, when the pilots inadvertently disconnected the autopilot.

January 1st, 1998

Argentinian physicist Juan Maldacena published a landmark paper initiating the study of AdS/CFT correspondence, which links string theory and quantum gravity.

January 1st, 1965

The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, which later helped the country become a republic, was founded.

January 1st, 1957

The revised Thai criminal code came into force, strengthening the law on lèse-majesté in Thailand to include insult, and treating it as a crime against national security.

January 1st, 1945

Second World War: The Luftwaffe launched Operation Bodenplatte in an attempt to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries.

January 1st, 1928

Joseph Stalin's personal secretary, Boris Bazhanov, crossed the Iranian border and defected from the Soviet Union.

January 1st, 1915

Russia withdraws from its occupation of northwestern Iran, enabling a subsequent Ottoman invasion and massacres of Assyrians and Armenians.

January 1st, 1914

The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the U.S. state of Florida became the first scheduled airline using a winged aircraft.

January 1st, 1892

The immigration station on Ellis Island (pictured) in New York Harbor opened, and would process almost 12 million immigrants to the United States over the course of its existence.

January 1st, 1818

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a novel by the British author Mary Shelley, was first published anonymously in London.

January 1st, 1808

As a result of the lobbying efforts by the abolitionist movement>!== (emblem pictured)-->, the importation of slaves into the United States was officially banned, although slavery itself was not yet abolished.

January 1st, 1801

Pursuant to the Acts of Union 1800, Great Britain and Ireland merged to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 1st

Born on January 1st, 1956

67

Sheila McCarthy

Canadian actress

*January 1st, 1956, Toronto

67

Christine Lagarde

President of the European Central Bank

*January 1st, 1956, 9th arrondissement of Paris

67

Karen Finley

American artist

*January 1st, 1956, Evanston

67

James Belich

New Zealand historian

*January 1st, 1956, Wellington

67

Jeremy Langford

British artist

*January 1st, 1956, London

67

Rajkumar Santoshi

Indian film director

*January 1st, 1956, Chennai

67

David Greenspan

American actor

*January 1st, 1956, Los Angeles

67

Inger Edelfeldt

Swedish writer

*January 1st, 1956, Stockholm

67

Øystein Wiik

Norwegian actor, singer

*January 1st, 1956, Ås

67

Chen Jianhua

Mayor of Guangzhou, China

*January 1st, 1956, Lufeng

63

Dilber Ay

Turkish actress (1956-2019)

*January 1st, 1956, Kahramanmaraş Province †April 29th, 2019

67

Craig Russell

British writer

*January 1st, 1956, Fife

60

Jim Boyd

American musician

*January 1st, 1956, Edwards Air Force Base †June 21st, 2016

62

Ogobara K. Doumbo

Dogon malaria researcher

*January 1st, 1956, Koro †June 9th, 2018, Marseille

67

Kōji Yakusho

Japanese actor

*January 1st, 1956, Isahaya

67

Louise Gold

British actor, singer and puppeteer

*January 1st, 1956, London

67

Paul Schwartz

American musician

*January 1st, 1956, New York City

67

Karen Casey

Australian painter, printmaker, and new media artist (1956–2021)

*January 1st, 1956, Hobart

67

Tatyana Lesovaya

Soviet discus throw

*January 1st, 1956, Taldykorgan

67

Jayachitra

Indian actress

*January 1st, 1956, Chennai

67

Luis Luque

Argentine actor

*January 1st, 1956, Buenos Aires

67

Sonja Jeannine

Austrian actress

*January 1st, 1956, Austria

67

Arnetia Walker

American actress

*January 1st, 1956, Columbus

67

Randy Powell

American writer

*January 1st, 1956, Seattle

67

Mark S. Cohen

American neuroscientist

*January 1st, 1956, Saint Paul

67

Marc Mayer

Canadian arts manager

*January 1st, 1956, Greater Sudbury

67

Kim Clifford

Australian alpine skier

*January 1st, 1956, Thredbo

67

Suzanne Doppelt

French photographer

*January 1st, 1956, Paris

67

Maciej Drygas

Polish documentary filmmaker

*January 1st, 1956, Łódź

67

Ron Robinson

Player of American and Canadian football

*January 1st, 1956, San Francisco

67

Gary Barnett

Businessperson

*January 1st, 1956, Manhattan

67

David Samson

Israeli Religious Zionist rabbi (born 1956)

*January 1st, 1956, Baltimore

67

Dariusz Wolski

Polish cinematographer

*January 1st, 1956, Warsaw

67

Eleanor David

British actress

*January 1st, 1956, Lincolnshire

67

Liu Xiaofeng

Chinese philosopher

*January 1st, 1956, Chongqing

50

Annette Zurstraßen

German medievalist

*January 1st, 1956, Hanover †September 14th, 2006, Cologne

52

John O'Donohue

Irish writer, priest and philosopher

*January 1st, 1956, Connacht †January 3rd, 2008, Avignon

59

Andrew Lesnie

Australian cinematographer

*January 1st, 1956, Sydney †April 27th, 2015, Sydney

60

Aníbal Chávez

Venezuelan politician

*January 1st, 1956, Sabaneta †July 17th, 2016, Caracas

53

Seán McGinley

Irish actor

*January 1st, 1956, Pettigo †January 1st, 2009

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 1st?

80

Torstein Hagen

Norwegian businessman

*January 1st, 1943, Norway

70

Gary Johnson

American politician, businessman, and 29th Governor of New Mexico

*January 1st, 1953, Minot

27

Dawid Kwiatkowski

Polish singer-songwriter

*January 1st, 1996, Gorzów Wielkopolski

68

Tom Jennings

American artist and computer specialist

*January 1st, 1955, Boston

65

Amy Morton

American actress

*January 1st, 1958, Oak Park

48

Kieron Gillen

British journalist and comics writer

*January 1st, 1975, Stafford

59

María Dueñas

Spanish writer

*January 1st, 1964, Puertollano

74

Christopher Kriesa

American actor

*January 1st, 1949, Green Bay

84

Mieczysław Kalenik

Polish actor

*January 1st, 1933, Międzyrzec Podlaski †June 16th, 2017, Międzyrzec Podlaski

45

Annett Renneberg

German actress

*January 1st, 1978, Rudolstadt

71

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologist

*January 1st, 1952, Chidambaram

44

Shakara Ledard

Bahamian actress

*January 1st, 1979, Nassau

59

Salim Akil

Film director, producer and screenwriter

*January 1st, 1964, Oakland

54

Bettina Stucky

Swiss actress

*January 1st, 1969, Bern

70

Emily Neves

American voice actress

*January 1st, 1953, Conroe

35

Nina Meurisse

French actress

*January 1st, 1988, Caen

73

Deepa Mehta

Indo Canadian film director and screenwriter

*January 1st, 1950, Amritsar

61

Matthew Bannister

Scottish-born New Zealand musician, journalist and academic

*January 1st, 1962, Scotland

84

Bengt von zur Mühlen

German film director and film producer (1932–2016)

*January 1st, 1932, Tartu †June 30th, 2016, Berlin

57

Chris Stokes

American film director

*January 1st, 1966, Los Angeles

Same year
Born in 1956

67

Peter Hook

English musician

*February 13th, 1956, Salford

67

Stephan Barratt-Due

Norwegian musician

*June 1st, 1956, Oslo

67

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

President of Germany

*January 5th, 1956, Detmold

67

Imelda Staunton

English actress (born 1956)

*January 9th, 1956, London

67

Rita Wilson

American actress, singer and producer

*October 26th, 1956, Hollywood

67

David Alan Grier

American actor and comedian

*June 30th, 1956, Detroit

67

Theresa May

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019

*October 1st, 1956, Eastbourne

67

Tom Hanks

American actor and film producer (born 1956)

*July 9th, 1956, Concord

67

Jim Piddock

British actor

*April 8th, 1956, Rochester

60

Carrie Fisher

American actress and writer

*October 21st, 1956, Burbank †December 27th, 2016, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

67

Mehdi El Glaoui

French-Moroccan actor and director

*May 26th, 1956, Choisy-le-Roi

67

Ulrike Meyfarth

German former high jumper

*May 4th, 1956, Frankfurt

67

Andreas Bornschein

German association football player

*November 29th, 1956, Leipzig

67

Tim Daly

American actor (born 1956)

*March 1st, 1956, Manhattan

67

Bernhard Daldrup

Federal German politician (1956–)

*June 1st, 1956, Sendenhorst

67

Michel Houellebecq

French writer

*February 26th, 1956, Saint-Pierre

67

Bryan Cranston

American actor, director, and producer

*March 7th, 1956, Hollywood

65

Bob Saget

American actor, comedian, and TV host (1956–2022)

*May 17th, 1956, Philadelphia †January 9th, 2022, Orlando

67

Jeff King

American dog musher

*February 6th, 1956, North Fork

67

Barbara Howard

American film and television actress

*November 4th, 1956, Chicago

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 1st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Dissolution of Czechoslovakia-related observances, New Year's Day) which are celebrated on January 1st.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on January 1st, 1956
Future birthdays

Leap year

Yes: 1956 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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