28th Academy Awards — award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1955

Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics — 1956 Olympic Summer Games competition

Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics

1956 Summer Olympics medal table

1956 South American Championship — football tournament

1956 AFC Asian Cup — football tournament

Hungarian Revolution of 1956 — 1956 revolution in Hungary

1956 Formula One season — sports season

1956 Winter Olympics — 7th edition of Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

Hundred Flowers Campaign — period in Chinese history

Football at the 1956 Summer Olympics — 1956 edition of the association football tournament during the Olympic Summer Games