Page 3: Historical Events In 1956

Feb 08   On this day in history connie Mack, baseball manager (Phila A's, 1901-50), dies at 93   

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

Feb 09   On this day in history -5°F (15°C) in Sicily   

Feb 09   -5ºF (15ºC) in Sicily in the year 1956.   

Feb 09   In Montreal Gaspe prospector Wilbert Coffin, age 41, hanged at Bordeaux prison for the murder of an American hunter in the year 1956.   

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 in the year 1956.   

Feb 10   In the year 1956 elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA   

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   In the year 1956 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow   

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

Feb 14   On this day in history khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference   

Feb 15   Urho Kekkonen appointed President of Finland on this day in history.   

Feb 16   On this day in history britain abolishes death penalty   

Feb 16   In the year 1956 britain abolishes the death penalty   

Feb 17   Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB in the year 1956.   

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

Feb 19   In the year 1956 kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open   

Feb 21   In the year 1956 edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78   

Feb 22   1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United on this day in history.   

Feb 22   Elvis Presley's first hit in Billboard's top 10 "Heartbreak Hotel" on this day in history.   

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   Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference in the year 1956.   

Feb 26   In the year 1956 betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open   

Feb 26   Herman Courtens, Belgian baron/painter, dies at 72 in the year 1956.   

Feb 26   Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge on this day in history.   

Feb 27   Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel" in the year 1956.   

Feb 27   Female suffrage in Egypt in the year 1956.   

Feb 27   On this day in history frank Dailey, orch leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54   

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 on this day in history.   

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   Mel Gibson, Peekskill NY, actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 04   Ann Magnuson, Charleston WV, actress (Anything But Love, Hunger) was born in the year 1956.   

Jan 04   Barney Sumner, rock guitarist/vocalist (New Order-Blue Monday) was born in the year 1956.   

Jan 04   Bernard Albrecht, English pop guitarist (Joy Division) was born in the year 1956.   

Jan 04   On this day in history 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 in the year 1956.   

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

Jan 05   In the year 1956 jeanne F Bourgeois, French head mistress (Moulin Rouge), dies at 84   

Jan 08   Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928) died on this day in history.   

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

Jan 12   On this day in history john Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (WW II Monument Amsterdam), dies at 70   

Jan 14   Siegfried F Nadel, Aust/Brit anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52 in the year 1956.   

Jan 21   Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883) died on this day in history.