Historical Events In 1956
Mar 20 Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp
Mar 30 USSR performs nuclear test
Mar 16 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright
Mar 20 Tunisia gains independence from France
Mar 07 Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
Mar 12 Dow Jones closes above 500 for first time (500.24)
Mar 17 8th Emmy Awards Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show and Lucy Ball
Mar 09 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested & exiled to Seychelles
Mar 03 Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
Mar 20 Tunisia gains independence from France
Mar 19 Biggest NBA margin of victory: Minnesota Lakers-133, St Louis Hawks-75
Mar 27 US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
Mar 23 Sudan becomes independent
Mar 20 USSR performs nuclear test
Mar 13 New Zealand bowl out West Indies for 77 at Eden Park to score their first Test Cricket win
Mar 15 Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champion
Mar 07 Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Mar 03 Indonesian government of Harahap resigns
Mar 10 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios
Mar 23 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)
Mar 02 Morocco tears up the Treaty of Féz, declares independence from France
Mar 17 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show and Lucy Ball
Mar 27 French commandos land in Algeria
Mar 26 Medic Alert Foundation forms
Mar 16 In Lebanon, two 6.0 eathquakes approximately 9 minutes apart. 136 killed, 6,000 houses destroyed and 17,000 damaged in 400 villages in the Chouf region.
Mar 09 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
Mar 10 Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph)
Mar 26 Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One
Mar 20 Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) explodes
Mar 05 "King Kong", first televised
Mar 19 Biggest NBA margin of victory Minnesota Lakers-133, St Louis Hawks-75
Mar 15 "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances
Mar 03 Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in New York
Mar 16 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
Aug 12 William Shatner marries Gloria Rand
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