Historical Events In 1956

Feb 08   Connie Mack, baseball manager (Phila A's, 1901-50), dies at 93 in the year 1956.   

Feb 08   Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die in the year 1956.   

Feb 09   -5°F (15°C) in Sicily in the year 1956.   

Feb 09   -5ºF (15ºC) in Sicily on this day in history.   

Feb 09   In Montreal Gaspe prospector Wilbert Coffin, age 41, hanged at Bordeaux prison for the murder of an American hunter on this day in history.   

Feb 09   R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria in the year 1956.   

Feb 10   "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV on this day in history.   

Feb 10   Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA in the year 1956.   

Feb 11   Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, former members of the British Foreign Office who had disappeared from England in 1951, resurface in Moscow on this day in history.   

Feb 13   KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland in the year 1956.   

Feb 14   On this day in history 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow   

Feb 14   In the year 1956 indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union   

Feb 14   Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference on this day in history.   

Feb 15   Urho Kekkonen appointed President of Finland in the year 1956.   

Feb 16   On this day in history britain abolishes death penalty   

Feb 16   In the year 1956 britain abolishes the death penalty   

Feb 17   On this day in history ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB   

Feb 18   Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise), dies at 95 in the year 1956.   

Feb 19   Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open in the year 1956.   

Feb 21   On this day in history edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78   

Feb 22   In the year 1956 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United   

Feb 22   In the year 1956 elvis Presley's first hit in Billboard's top 10 "Heartbreak Hotel"   

Feb 23   20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow in the year 1956.   

Feb 23   Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin in the year 1956.   

Feb 25   On this day in history khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference   

Feb 26   Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open in the year 1956.   

Feb 26   In the year 1956 herman Courtens, Belgian baron/painter, dies at 72   

Feb 26   On this day in history writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge   

Feb 27   In the year 1956 elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"   

Feb 27   On this day in history female suffrage in Egypt   

Feb 27   Frank Dailey, orch leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54 in the year 1956.   

Feb 28   13 die in a train crash in Swampscott MA on this day in history.   

Feb 28   A Chatham Ontario restaurant is fined $50 for refusing to serve two black students in the year 1956.   

Feb 28   Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory in the year 1956.   

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Jan 02   In the year 1956 birth of lynda Barry, American cartoonist   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of mel Gibson, Peekskill NY, actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon)   

Jan 03   Willy T. Ribbs, American race car driver was born in the year 1956.   

Jan 04   In the year 1956 birth of ann Magnuson, Charleston WV, actress (Anything But Love, Hunger)   

Jan 04   In the year 1956 birth of barney Sumner, rock guitarist/vocalist (New Order-Blue Monday)   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of bernard Albrecht, English pop guitarist (Joy Division)   

Jan 04   In the year 1956 birth of nels Cline, American guitarist and composer   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of chen Kenichi, Japanese-born chef   

Jan 03   Alexander Tikhonovich Gretshaninov, Russian/US composer, dies at 91 on this day in history.   

Jan 04   Alexandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, composer, dies at 91 in the year 1956.   

Jan 05   Jeanne F Bourgeois, French head mistress (Moulin Rouge), dies at 84 on this day in history.   

Jan 08   On this day in history death of jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)   

Jan 10   On this day in history henricus P Bremmer, Dutch art historian (Beeldende Kunst), dies at 84   

Jan 12   In the year 1956 john Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (WW II Monument Amsterdam), dies at 70   

Jan 14   Siegfried F Nadel, Aust/Brit anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52 on this day in history.   

Jan 21   On this day in history death of sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883)