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   On this day in history 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 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   R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria in the year 1956.   

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

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

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 in the year 1956.   

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   On this day in history khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference   

Feb 15   Urho Kekkonen appointed President of Finland in the year 1956.   

Feb 16   In the year 1956 britain abolishes death penalty   

Feb 16   On this day in history britain abolishes the death penalty   

Feb 17   Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB in the year 1956.   

Feb 18   Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise), dies at 95 in the year 1956.   

Feb 19   Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open in the year 1956.   

Feb 21   Edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

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" on this day in history.   

Feb 23   In the year 1956 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow   

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

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   On this day in history herman Courtens, Belgian baron/painter, dies at 72   

Feb 26   On this day in history 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   Female suffrage in Egypt on this day in history.   

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

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   In the year 1956 birth of lynda Barry, American cartoonist   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of mel Gibson, Peekskill NY, actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon)   

Jan 03   Willy T. Ribbs, American race car driver was born in the year 1956.   

Jan 04   Ann Magnuson, Charleston WV, actress (Anything But Love, Hunger) was born in the year 1956.   

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   In the year 1956 birth of nels Cline, American guitarist and composer   

Jan 05   In the year 1956 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   Jeanne F Bourgeois, French head mistress (Moulin Rouge), dies at 84 in the year 1956.   

Jan 08   In the year 1956 death of jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)   

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

Jan 12   On this day in history john Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (WW II Monument Amsterdam), dies at 70   

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.