is invented by an IBM team, led by Reynold B. Johnson. The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed. September 16 – Television broadcasting in Australia commences. September 21 – Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza García is assassinated. September 25 – The submarine transatlantic telephone cable opens. September 27 – The Bell X-2 becomes the first crewed aircraft to reach Mach 3. October October 5 – Cecil B. DeMille's epic film The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston as Moses, is released in the United States. It will be in the top ten of the worldwide list of highest-grossing films of all time, adjusted for inflation. October 8 – Baseball pitcher Don Larsen of the New York Yankees throws the only perfect game in World Series history, in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Yogi Berra catches the game. Dale Mitchell is the final out. The New York Yankees win the series in seven games. Larsen is named series MVP. October 10 Finland joins UNESCO. The prototype Lockheed L-1649 Starliner, the final Lockheed Constellation model, makes its first flight. October 14 – In India: Indira Kala Sangeet University, Khairagarh, is inaugurated by Indira Gandhi. Dalit Buddhist movement: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Dalit leader, converts to Buddhism, along with 385,000 followers. October 15 – The British Royal Air Force retires its last Avro Lancaster bomber. October 17 The world's first industrial-scale commercial nuclear power plant is opened at Calder Hall in England. The Game of the Century (chess): 13-year-old Bobby Fischer beats grandmaster Donald Byrne, in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City. October 22 – Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom, France, and Israel secretly meet in Sèvres and make plans to invade Egypt. October 23 – The Hungarian Revolution breaks out against the pro-Soviet government, originating as a student demonstration in Budapest. Hungary attempts to leave the Warsaw Pact. October 26 – Soviet Red Army troops invade Hungary. October 29 Suez Crisis: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and pushes Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal. Tangier Protocol: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco. The Huntley-Brinkley Report debuts on NBC-TV in the United States. October 31 Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal. A United States Navy team becomes the third group to reach the South Pole (arriving by air), and