Page 5: Historical Events In 1956

Mar 19   Biggest NBA margin of victory.   

Mar 20   156-day strike against Westinghouse ends   

Mar 20   Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) explodes   

Mar 20   Tunisia gains independence from France   

Mar 20   Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp.   

Mar 20   USSR performs nuclear test   

Mar 21   28th Academy Awards.   

Mar 22   "Mr Wonderful" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances   

Mar 22   George A L Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at 71   

Mar 23   Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day).   

Mar 23   Sudan is recorded as becoming independent   

Mar 25   George Luther Foote, composer, dies at 70   

Mar 26   Medic Alert Foundation forms.   

Mar 26   Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One   

Mar 26   Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer, dies at 70.   

Mar 27   Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84   

Mar 27   French commandos land in Algeria.   

Mar 27   US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"   

Mar 28   Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, vocalist, dies of a heart attack.   

Apr 02   Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgium ambassador to Tokyo, dies at 82.   

Apr 02   Peter Ustinovs' "Romanoff and Juliet," premieres in Manchester.   

Apr 02   Soap operas "As the World Turns" and "Edge of Night" premieres on TV   

Apr 03   "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 461 performances   

Apr 03   Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated.   

Apr 03   German war criminals Hinrichsen/Rhl/Siebens/Viebahn are freed   

Apr 03   T Kostov, Bulgarian vice-premier, executed.   

Apr 04   Enid Bagnold's "Chalk Garden", premieres in London   

Apr 05   In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister   

Apr 07   10th NBA Championship: Ph Warriors beat Ft Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1   

Apr 07   Arthur Hailey had a script accepted and presented just 20 days after it was submitted to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The drama, " Flight into Danger" had an unprecedented audience response. A number of years later, Arthur Hailey also wrote the best-selling novel, " Airport " which was then adapted for the popular movie by the same title.   

Apr 07   Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco.   

Apr 08   20th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Burke Jr claims, shooting a 289   

Apr 10   Bozidar Sirola, composer, dies at 66   

Apr 11   French govt decides to sends 200000 reservists to Algeria.   

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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)