Page 3: Historical Events In 1956

Feb 08   Connie Mack, baseball manager (Phila A's, 1901-50), dies at 93   

Feb 08   Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die   

Feb 09   -5°F (15°C) in Sicily   

Feb 09   -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   

Feb 09   R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria.   

Feb 10   "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV   

Feb 10   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   

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

Feb 14   20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow.   

Feb 14   Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union.   

Feb 14   Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference.   

Feb 15   Urho Kekkonen appointed President of Finland.   

Feb 16   Britain abolishes death penalty   

Feb 16   Britain abolishes the death penalty   

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

Feb 18   Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise), dies at 95   

Feb 19   In this year, Kathy Cornelius claims LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open.   

Feb 21   Edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78   

Feb 22   1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United   

Feb 22   Elvis Presley's inaugural hit in Billboard's top 10 "Heartbreak Hotel"   

Feb 23   20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow.   

Feb 23   Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin.   

Feb 25   Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference.   

Feb 26   Herman Courtens, Belgian baron/painter, dies at 72.   

Feb 26   In this year, Betsy Rawls claims LPGA Sarasota Golf Open   

Feb 26   Writers Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge   

Feb 27   Female suffrage in Egypt.   

Feb 27   Frank Dailey, orch leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54   

Feb 27   In this year, Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"   

Feb 28   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   

Feb 28   Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory   

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Jan 02   Lynda barry: American cartoonist   

Jan 03   Mel gibson: Peekskill ny, actor (mad max, mrs soffel, lethal weapon)   

Jan 03   Willy t. ribbs: American race car driver   

Jan 04   Ann magnuson: Charleston wv, actress (anything but love, hunger)   

Jan 04   Barney sumner: Rock guitarist/vocalist (new order-blue monday)   

Jan 04   Bernard albrecht: English pop guitarist (joy division)   

Jan 04   Nels cline: American guitarist and composer   

Jan 05   Chen kenichi: Japanese-born chef   

Jan 03   Alexander tikhonovich gretshaninov: Russian/us composer,    

Jan 04   Alexandr tikhonovich grechaninov: Composer,    

Jan 05   Jeanne f bourgeois: French head mistress (moulin rouge),   

Jan 08   Jim elliot: American christian missionary (b. 1928)   

Jan 10   Henricus p bremmer: Dutch art historian (beeldende kunst),   

Jan 12   John raedecker: Dutch sculptor (ww ii monument amsterdam),   

Jan 14   Siegfried f nadel: Aust/brit anthropologist (nuba),    

Jan 21   Sam langford: Canadian boxer (b. 1883)