Page 3: 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   Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die on this day in history.   

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

Feb 09   -5ºF (15ºC) in Sicily on this day in history.   

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

Feb 09   R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria in the year 1956.   

Feb 10   On this day in history "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV   

Feb 10   Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1956 kYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland   

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   In the year 1956 khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference   

Feb 15   On this day in history urho Kekkonen appointed President of Finland   

Feb 16   In the year 1956 britain abolishes death penalty   

Feb 16   Britain abolishes the death penalty on this day in history.   

Feb 17   In the year 1956 ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB   

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   Edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

Feb 22   1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United in the year 1956.   

Feb 22   In the year 1956 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   On this day in history russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin   

Feb 25   In the year 1956 khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference   

Feb 26   On this day in history betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open   

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 in the year 1956.   

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

Feb 27   Female suffrage in Egypt in the year 1956.   

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

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

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 in the year 1956.   

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Jan 02   Lynda Barry, American cartoonist was born in the year 1956.   

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

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of willy T. Ribbs, American race car driver   

Jan 04   In the year 1956 birth of ann Magnuson, Charleston WV, actress (Anything But Love, Hunger)   

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   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   On this day in history alexander Tikhonovich Gretshaninov, Russian/US composer, dies at 91   

Jan 04   In the year 1956 alexandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, composer, dies at 91   

Jan 05   On this day in history jeanne F Bourgeois, French head mistress (Moulin Rouge), dies at 84   

Jan 08   On this day in history death of jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)   

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

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

Jan 14   On this day in history siegfried F Nadel, Aust/Brit anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52   

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