Being born under the Chinese Zodiac Sign Monkey people are the geniuses of the cycle with erratic behaviours. Skillful, clever with a flexible mind that leads to being very inventive and original in thought. Solving difficult problems is what they do. There are certain type of fields that do not suit Monkeys well because of their habit of beint too agreeable. Getting things done and doing them fast is a goal of every Monkey. But when things don't get started immediately or move along fast they get impatient and discouraged to the point of abandoning projects. Bad habbit wise Monkeys tend to look down on other people. Having strong common sense Monkeys make good decisions. They have a thirst for knowledge. Add to this am excellent memorie. Having a strong will in many life situatuins Monkeys anger disappears fast once they cooled down.
Astrology character and traits of Monkey sign: Intelligent, desire for knowledge, skillful, inventive, curious, daring, easily discouraged, strong willed and vain.
1956 Zodiac Sign Monkey Compatibility
Chinese Zodiac Signs are based upon a twelve year lunar cycle. Your zodiac animal sign is determined by your birthday year. If you were born in 1956 then your astrological sign is Monkey. There are twelve animal signs. Each animal has it's own attributes and personality traits the Chinese believe comprise the nature of each particular animal.
Best matches for Zodiac Sign Monkey are: Snake, Rat, Dragon
Bad matches for Zodiac Sign Monkey are: Tiger
Historical Events for the Year 1956
1st January Star Sign » Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.
1st January » A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people.
8th January Star Sign » Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionary known as missionaries are killed by the Huaorani people or Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
16th January Star Sign » President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
20th February Star Sign » The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.
25th February Star Sign » In his speech 'On the Personality Cult and its Consequences', Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
1st March Star Sign » The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
23rd March Star Sign » Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day March 23rd in Pakistan or Republic Day in Pakistan)
2nd April Star Sign » 'As the World Turns' and 'The Edge of Night' premiere on CBS-TV. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.
3rd April Star Sign » Hudsonville-Standale Tornado of April 1956 named Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly Fujita scale e.g F5 tornado.
5th April Star Sign » Fidel Castro declares himself at war with President of Cuba called Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
5th April » In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and Solomon Bandaranaike e.g S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
7th April Star Sign » Spain relinquishes its Spanish Morocco called protectorate in Morocco.
14th April Star Sign » In Chicago, Quadruplex videotape named videotape is first demonstrated.
19th April Star Sign » Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III, Prince of Monaco known as Prince Rainier of Monaco.
30th April Star Sign » Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming "I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty."
1st May Star Sign » The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1st May » A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
18th May Star Sign » First ascent of Lhotse 8,516 meters, by a Switzerland known as Swiss team.
20th May Star Sign » In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
24th May Star Sign » The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
5th June Star Sign » Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog (song) e.g Hound Dog", on 'The Milton Berle Show', scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
11th June Star Sign » Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamil people known as Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
20th June Star Sign » A Venezuelan Lockheed Constellation named Super-Constellation Linea Aeropostal Venezolana Flight 253 (June 1956) known as crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
23rd June Star Sign » The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa.
28th June Star Sign » in Poznań, workers from H. Cegielski – Poznań or HCP factory went to the streets, sparking one of the Poznań 1956 protests or first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
29th June Star Sign » The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
30th June Star Sign » A Trans World Airlines TWA Lockheed Constellation Super Constellation and a United Airlines Douglas DC-7 DC-7 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.
7th July Star Sign » Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
16th July Star Sign » Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh named Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
25th July Star Sign » Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Athena MS 'Stockholm' in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
30th July Star Sign » A joint resolution of the United States Congress known as U.S. Congress is signed by President of the United States called President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing 'In God we trust' as the U.S. national motto.
31st July Star Sign » Jim Laker becomes the first man to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings as he returns figures of 10/53 in the Australian 2nd innings. This combined with his 9/37 in the first innings gave him match figures of 19/90 in the 4th Test at Old Trafford.
6th August Star Sign » After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Rink e.g St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the 'Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena' series.
9th September Star Sign » Elvis Presley appears on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' for the first time.
13th September Star Sign » The Dike (construction) called dike around the Dutch polder Zuiderzee Works The Flevolands known as East Flevoland is closed.
13th September » The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
25th September Star Sign » TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
27th September Star Sign » USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach number named Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
14th October Star Sign » Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Dalit (outcaste) named Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
15th October Star Sign » Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.
17th October Star Sign » The first commercial Nuclear reactor technology called nuclear power station is officially opened by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom named Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
17th October » Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer play a famous chess game called The Game of the Century (chess) known as The Game of the Century. Fischer beat Byrne and wins a Brilliancy prize.
19th October Star Sign » The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 or Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
21st October Star Sign » Mau Mau Uprising: Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is captured by the British Army, signalling the ultimate defeat of the rebellion, and essentially ending the British military campaign.
23rd October Star Sign » Thousands of Hungary Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet Union Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
29th October Star Sign » Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
29th October » The Tangier Protocol is signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
31st October Star Sign » Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Republic of Egypt (1953–58) known as Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
1st November Star Sign » The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore state are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
1st November » In India, Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu state from Kerala.
1st November » The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia known as Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
3rd November Star Sign » The Khan Yunis killings are perpetrated by the Israel Defense Forces in Egyptian-controlled Gaza, resulting in the deaths of 275 male Arabs.
7th November Star Sign » Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
12th November » In the midst of the Suez Crisis, Palestinian refugees are Rafah massacre named shot dead in the village of Rafah by Israeli soldiers following the invasion of the Gaza Strip.
13th November Star Sign » The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
4th December Star Sign » The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studios for the first and last time.
6th December Star Sign » A violent Blood In The Water match called water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
9th December Star Sign » Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
19th December Star Sign » Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
22nd December Star Sign » Colo (gorilla) called Colo, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity (animal) named captivity, is born at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio.
28th December Star Sign » Chin Peng, David Marshall (Singaporean politician) David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Federation of Malaya Malaya to Baling Talks try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.