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 on this day in history.   

Feb 09   In the year 1956 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   On this day in history elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA   

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

Feb 14   In the year 1956 khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference   

Feb 15   In the year 1956 urho Kekkonen appointed President of Finland   

Feb 16   In the year 1956 britain abolishes death penalty   

Feb 16   Britain abolishes the death penalty in the year 1956.   

Feb 17   On this day in history ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB   

Feb 18   On this day in history gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise), dies at 95   

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 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

Feb 26   Herman Courtens, Belgian baron/painter, dies at 72 in the year 1956.   

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

Feb 27   In the year 1956 elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"   

Feb 27   Female suffrage in Egypt on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1956 forrester issued a patent for computer core memory   

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of lynda Barry, American cartoonist   

Jan 03   Mel Gibson, Peekskill NY, actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon) was born on this day in history.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

Jan 12   John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (WW II Monument Amsterdam), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

Jan 14   Siegfried F Nadel, Aust/Brit anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52 in the year 1956.   

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