1956

Sports
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The Clemson basketball team beats its first ranked team, a 96-94 overtime win against eighth-ranked North Carolina State, played at home. This was Coach Press Maravich's first year at Clemson.
In the News
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In October 1956, the Suez Crisis erupted after Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. Britain, France, and Israel launched a military intervention, which led to a diplomatic crisis.
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Popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 established an interstate highway system in the United States.
On Campus
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Dr. Rupert Howard Fike, Class of 1908, IPTAY member number 1, dies.