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Bardot, Budapest
Alabama, Kruschev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place
Trouble in the Suez

Billy Joel cruelly overlooked such crucial events as the first Eurovision Song Contest and IBM creating the first hard drive (a whopping 5MB!). These aside, 1956 was the year of births as far as Hollywood is concerned: Mel Gibson, Geena Davis, Tom Hanks and...er...Bob Saget all popped out of the womb over these twelve months.