Taekwondo, a form of Korean martial arts, is officially recognized in South Korea. The Taiwanese Kuomintang put a bomb on the airplane Kashmir Princess, killing 16 but failing to assassinate the People's Republic of China leader, Zhou Enlai. April 10 – In the American National Basketball Association championship, the Syracuse Nationals defeat the Fort Wayne Pistons 92–91 in Game 7, to win the title. April 6 – Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Daley defeats Robert Merrian to become Mayor of Chicago, by a vote of 708,222 to 581,555. Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, due to ill-health, at the age of 80. April 1 – EOKA starts a resistance campaign against British rule in the Crown colony of Cyprus. Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to the song. March 20 – The movie adaptation of Evan Hunter's novel Blackboard Jungle premieres in the United States, featuring the famous single " Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets. March 19 – KXTV signs on the air in Sacramento, California, as the 100th commercial television station in the United States. March 17 – Richard Riot in Montreal: 6,000 people protest the suspension of French Canadian ice hockey star Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens by the National Hockey League, following a violent incident during a match. This program gains the largest viewership of a TV special up to this time, and it becomes one of the first great TV family musical classics. It is also the first time that a stage musical is presented in its entirety on TV, almost exactly as it was performed on stage. March 7 – The Broadway musical version of Peter Pan, which had opened in 1954 starring Mary Martin, is presented on television for the first time by NBC-TV, with its original cast, as an installment of Producers' Showcase. Elvis Presley makes his television debut on "Louisiana Hayride", carried by KSLA-TV Shreveport in the United States. WBBJ-TV signs on the air in Jackson, Tennessee, with WDXI as its initial call-letters, to expand American commercial television in mostly rural areas. 
Gayle (1956), which rules bus segregation to be unconstitutional. She is carried off the bus backwards, while being kicked, handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station. March 2 – Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old African-American girl, refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white woman after the driver demands it.
Establishments and disestablishments categoriesġ955 in various calendars Gregorian calendar
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