1956 (WOD)

Events

• The better part of the Russian Children of Gaia are hunted down and slain by the Red Talons due to their failure to prevent Soviet development of atomic weapons. (Note: The massacre of the Children of Gaia may have begun some years prior - see the entry for year 1949 for comparison.)^[1]
• Since its 1952 acquisition of Panflex Incorporated, Magadon has bought out a dozen more small pharmaceutical and medical firms, including Thrioson, Campesi Gerontological Research, Panacea Pharmaceuticals and Kipling-Jones. This year the company first goes overseas with its acquisition of Dunlop & Farrier.^[2]
• Lova Carcassone, Homid Theurge Silver Fang, is born.^[3]
• Doctor Electrik publishes his English translation of the Kitab al Alacir.^[4]
• The summer edition of Paradigma contains Professor Red Shift's look at the history of the Council of Nine Mystick Traditions.^[5]
• The winter edition of Paradigma contains a look at the progenitors of the Sons of Ether, the Electrodyne Engineers from Professor Inherent.^[6]
• The human chromosome count is determined to be 46.^[7]
• Mark Hallward Gillan is born in Melbourne.^[8]
• B. Fichsi's Travails of Purgatory is published by Paradigma Press.^[9]
• Dr. Jarmyn Talbot is appointed Dean of the College of Linguistics for the first time. He authors three articles for the Winter issue of the Annual Proceedings of the Arcanum: "The Primal Tongue and its Significance," "Beyond Proto-Indo-European," and "Sanskrit Inscriptions in a Celtic Barrow: the Implications."^[10]
• Zvolen Lucenik, a ghoul, is recruited to Horizon from the Carpathian Mountains by Hermetic Adept Janos Sturvik.^[11]
• Upon meditating on all the different words for "spider" in African languages, Rabbi Elihu Witz Awakens.^[12]
• Euthanatos Master Agatha Marsh is born.^[13]
• The Analytical Reckoners break from the Technocratic Union and go into hiding.^[14]
• Thomas Houston is born in a small town in Texas.^[15]

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