Historical Events In 1956
Sunday, 28 February 2021
Feb 08 On this day in history connie Mack, baseball manager (Phila A's, 1901-50), dies at 93
Feb 08 In the year 1956 mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die
Feb 09 -5°F (15°C) in Sicily in the year 1956.
Feb 09 On this day in history -5ºF (15ºC) in Sicily
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 on this day in history.
Feb 10 "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV on this day in history.
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 in the year 1956.
Feb 13 KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland in the year 1956.
Feb 14 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow in the year 1956.
Feb 14 On this day in history indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union
Feb 14 On this day in history khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference
Feb 15 In the year 1956 urho Kekkonen appointed President of Finland
Feb 16 On this day in history britain abolishes death penalty
Feb 16 On this day in history britain abolishes the death penalty
Feb 17 Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB on this day in history.
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 Edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.
Feb 22 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United on this day in history.
Feb 22 On this day in history 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 In the year 1956 russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
Feb 25 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference in the year 1956.
Feb 26 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open on this day in history.
Feb 26 Herman Courtens, Belgian baron/painter, dies at 72 on this day in history.
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 on this day in history.
Feb 27 Frank Dailey, orch leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54 on this day in history.
Feb 28 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott MA on this day in history.
Feb 28 In the year 1956 a Chatham Ontario restaurant is fined $50 for refusing to serve two black students
Feb 28 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory on this day in history.
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