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   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   -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 in the year 1956.   

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   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Feb 14   In the year 1956 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow   

Feb 14   Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union on this day in history.   

Feb 14   Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference in the year 1956.   

Feb 15   Urho Kekkonen appointed President of Finland on this day in history.   

Feb 16   Britain abolishes death penalty in the year 1956.   

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   In the year 1956 edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78   

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

Feb 22   Elvis Presley's first hit in Billboard's top 10 "Heartbreak Hotel" in the year 1956.   

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

Feb 23   In the year 1956 russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin   

Feb 25   In the year 1956 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 in the year 1956.   

Feb 26   In the year 1956 writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge   

Feb 27   Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel" on this day in history.   

Feb 27   On this day in history female suffrage in Egypt   

Feb 27   In the year 1956 frank Dailey, orch leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54   

Feb 28   On this day in history 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 in the year 1956.   

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 in the year 1956.   

Jan 03   On this day in history 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   On this day in history birth of ann Magnuson, Charleston WV, actress (Anything But Love, Hunger)   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of barney Sumner, rock guitarist/vocalist (New Order-Blue Monday)   

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   Chen Kenichi, Japanese-born chef was born in the year 1956.   

Jan 03   In the year 1956 alexander Tikhonovich Gretshaninov, Russian/US composer, dies at 91   

Jan 04   Alexandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, composer, dies at 91 on this day in history.   

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

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   On this day in history john Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (WW II Monument Amsterdam), dies at 70   

Jan 14   In the year 1956 siegfried F Nadel, Aust/Brit anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52   

Jan 21   In the year 1956 death of sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883)