Historical Events In 1956

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

Feb 08   On this day in history mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die   

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

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   In the year 1956 r Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria   

Feb 10   "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV in the year 1956.   

Feb 10   On this day in history elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA   

Feb 11   In the year 1956 donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, former members of the British Foreign Office who had disappeared from England in 1951, resurface in Moscow   

Feb 13   KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland on this day in history.   

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   Britain abolishes the death penalty on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 21   Edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78 in the year 1956.   

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" in the year 1956.   

Feb 23   20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow on this day in history.   

Feb 23   Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin on this day in history.   

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   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   On this day in history elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"   

Feb 27   In the year 1956 female suffrage in Egypt   

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

Feb 28   In the year 1956 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott MA   

Feb 28   A Chatham Ontario restaurant is fined $50 for refusing to serve two black students on this day in history.   

Feb 28   In the year 1956 forrester issued a patent for computer core memory   

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Jan 02   Lynda Barry, American cartoonist was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1956 birth of mel Gibson, Peekskill NY, actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon)   

Jan 03   Willy T. Ribbs, American race car driver was born on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 04   In the year 1956 birth of bernard Albrecht, English pop guitarist (Joy Division)   

Jan 04   Nels Cline, American guitarist and composer was born in the year 1956.   

Jan 05   In the year 1956 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   On this day in history alexandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, composer, dies at 91   

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

Jan 08   Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928) died in the year 1956.   

Jan 10   Henricus P Bremmer, Dutch art historian (Beeldende Kunst), dies at 84 in the year 1956.   

Jan 12   John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (WW II Monument Amsterdam), dies at 70 in the year 1956.   

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.