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 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 09   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 10   In the year 1956 elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA   

Feb 11   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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

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 in the year 1956.   

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 in the year 1956.   

Feb 19   On this day in history kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open   

Feb 21   Edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78 in the year 1956.   

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

Feb 22   Elvis Presley's first hit in Billboard's top 10 "Heartbreak Hotel" on this day in history.   

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

Feb 23   Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin in the year 1956.   

Feb 25   Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference on this day in history.   

Feb 26   In the year 1956 betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open   

Feb 26   On this day in history herman Courtens, Belgian baron/painter, dies at 72   

Feb 26   Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge on this day in history.   

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

Feb 27   In the year 1956 female suffrage in Egypt   

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

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 in the year 1956.   

Feb 28   Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory on this day in history.   

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Jan 02   Lynda Barry, American cartoonist was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Mel Gibson, Peekskill NY, actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon) was born in the year 1956.   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 04   In the year 1956 birth of barney Sumner, rock guitarist/vocalist (New Order-Blue Monday)   

Jan 04   Bernard Albrecht, English pop guitarist (Joy Division) was born in the year 1956.   

Jan 04   Nels Cline, American guitarist and composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   Chen Kenichi, Japanese-born chef was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Alexander Tikhonovich Gretshaninov, Russian/US composer, dies at 91 in the year 1956.   

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

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

Jan 08   Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928) died in the year 1956.   

Jan 10   In the year 1956 henricus P Bremmer, Dutch art historian (Beeldende Kunst), dies at 84   

Jan 12   In the year 1956 john Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (WW II Monument Amsterdam), dies at 70   

Jan 14   Siegfried F Nadel, Aust/Brit anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52 on this day in history.   

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