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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Ipanema beach]]
4: [[Image:Redentor.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Cristo Redentor]]]]
5: [[Image:Rio_deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]...
21: ...physical space nor urban structure to accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arrived suddenly, many inha...
25: ...ek]] was elected in [[1955]] and took office in [[1956]] with a promise to build a new capital. Though m... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
18: * [[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary]] surrenders to [[Italy]].
28: ...ngary]] to crush the [[Hungarian Revolution, 1956|Hungarian revolution]] that started on [[October 23]...
39: * [[2001]] - [[Hurricane Michelle]] hits [[Cuba]], destroying crops...
50: ...9]] - [[Will Rogers]], [[United States|American]] humorist and entertainer (d. [[1935]])
88: *[[1956]] - [[Art Tatum]], American jazz musician - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
26: ...Valdas Adamkus|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
29: *[[Arthur Adamov|Adamov, Arthur]], (1908-1997), dramatist, author
65: ...(1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
72: ...Walter Sydney Adams|Adams, Walter Sydney]], (1876-1956), American astronomer
111: *[[Gustavus Adolphus|Adolphus, Gustavus]], (1594-1632), King of Sweden - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...rican citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] whose family moved...
6: ...ere was tough; she and her two sisters were often hungry and cold. Her sisters' names were Shayna and ...
12: ...erson, a sign painter, who would later become her husband.
20: ...], the General Federation of Labor. By 1924, her husband tired of the kibbutz life and they left.
22: ...never divorced. The children stayed with her. Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling a... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
32: ... Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]] High School. In [[1956]] Reno enrolled at [[Cornell University]] in [[It... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...Image:Eleanor_Roosevelt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...7]] [[1962]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[human rights]] activist, [[diplomat]] and as the wif...
5: ...', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ... his late brother in giving Eleanor's hand to her husband to be. Their marriage was blessed with six c...
13: ...Eleanor not only snagged her cousin Franklin as a husband, but that Franklin, and now Eleanor, were me... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
1: [[Image:MID_0330001169_5mb.jpg|thumb|Sylvia Pankhurst]]
3: '''(Estelle) Sylvia Pankhurst''' ([[May 5]], [[1882]] - [[September 27]], [[...
5: ...with women's rights. Her sister, [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]], would also become an activist.
7: ...olitical Union]] with her sister [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]] and her mother Emmeline. But in c...
17: ...is Ababa in [[1956]], with her son, [[Richard Pankhurst]], she founded a monthly journal, ''Ethiopia O... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: [[Image:Rosaparksarrested.jpeg|thumb|right|330px|Rosa Parks was arrested for refusin...
9: [[Image:Rosa_parks_bus.jpg|thumb|right|The bus, now a museum exhibit at the [[He...
12: In [[1956]] Parks's case ultimately resulted in [[Supreme C...
49: "My auntie would never, ever go to this length to hurt some young artists trying to make it in the wor... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
1: [[Image:Steinem.jpg|right|thumb|195px| Gloria Steinem.]]
8: ...[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years. - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...ebruary 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Quee...
5: ...ere at the time. In Montparnasse she also met her husband, the [[Norway|Norwegian]] artist [[Roald Kri... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
20: ...returned to Moscow hoping to be reunited with her husband. She was trapped in Moscow for five years. D...
22: ...to the volunteers in the White Army, in which her husband was fighting as an officer.
34: Meanwhile, Tsvetaeva's husband was rapidly developing Soviet sympathies and...
36: Tsvetaeva does not seem to have known that her husband was a spy, nor the extent to which he was co...
77: ...et Union until after the death of [[Stalin]] in [[1956]]. Its hero is the [[Pied Piper of Hamelin]] who ... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...Jemison''' blasted into orbit aboard the [[Space Shuttle Endeavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she ...
9: ... of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicag... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vech...
20: ... but the marriage was later annulled. Her second husband was the famous [[double bass|bass]] player [...
36: *1956 ''[[Sings the Cole Porter Songbook]]''
37: *1956 ''[[Ella and Louis]]''
38: *1956 ''[[Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook]]'' - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
1: [[Image:aretha_franklin.jpg|thumb|200px|Aretha Franklin]]
6: ... her father's [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]]-area church and made her first recordings at the age 14. ...
10: ...e gospel music recorded in a Los Angeles Baptist church. Surprisingly she never made it to number one ...
14: ...osing nothing of its power, and she continued the hugely successful relationship with Wexler and Mardi...
33: *[[1956]] ''[[The Gospel Soul of Aretha Franklin]]'' - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: [[Image:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Va...
7: ...ed by herself in her autobiography published in [[1956]]. She was born in [[Philadelphia]] but grew up i... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ... She left her three daughters in the care of her husband.
7: ...re she made contact with her supervisor, [[Peter Churchill]]. Using the code name '''Lise''', she bro...
9: ...chill was the nephew of Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]], and that she was Peter's wife. The hope ...
13: ...ed Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956.
15: Her third husband was Geoffrey Hallowes. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tallulah.jpg|thumb|Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vec...
2: ...ress]], talk-show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Huntsville, Alabama]].
55: *[[Thunder Below]] (1932)
75: *1922 [[Her Temporary Husband]]
108: *1956 [[A Streetcar Named Desire]] - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
5: ... films in the [[United States]], Bergman joined [[Humphrey Bogart]] in the [[1942]] classic film ''[[C...
7: ...)|Stromboli]]'' ([[1950]]). Bergman left both her husband and daughter for Rossellini and they married...
9: ... her starring role in ([[1956]])'s ''[[Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia]]'', Bergman made her post-scand...
15: Bergman was honored posthumously with an [[Emmy Award]] for Best Actress in ...
55: * [[Paris Does Strange Things]] (1956) - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
1: [[Image:Catherine deneuve.jpg|thumb|Catherine Deneuve at Cannes in 2000]]
4: ...Renée Deneuve]], she made her movie debut in the 1956 film "Les Collegiennes," when she was still a tee...
27: * ''[[The Hunger]]'' (1983) - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ava Gardner05.jpg|thumb|Ava Gardner]]
6: ...uin]] and [[Mario Cabr靝, industrialist [[Howard Hughes]], and actor [[George C. Scott]], in the mid-...
16: ...04), a film by [[Martin Scorsese]] about [[Howard Hughes]].
45: * [[The Hucksters]] (1947)
60: * [[Bhowani Junction]] (1956)
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