Notable Historical Events - 1956
1956 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
KHAS TV channel 5 in Hastings, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jan 1 |
KOSA TV channel 7 in Odessa, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 1 |
Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) declares independence from Egypt & UK |
Jan 1 |
WREC (now WREG) TV channel 3 in Memphis, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 1 |
A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people. |
Jan 2 |
Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections |
Jan 3 |
A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower. |
Jan 6 |
KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Jan 6 |
Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group |
Jan 7 |
Vinoo Mankad scores 231 v NZ, 413 opening stand with Roy |
Jan 8 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken |
Jan 8 |
Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 & stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single) |
Jan 8 |
Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them. |
Jan 9 |
Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers |
Jan 9 |
Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan |
Jan 10 |
Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel" |
Jan 14 |
Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad |
Jan 14 |
Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti" |
Jan 15 |
Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open |
Jan 15 |
D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia |
Jan 15 |
KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jan 15 |
NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 31-30 |
Jan 16 |
Egyptian pres Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine |
Jan 18 |
German DR forms own army (National People's Army) |
Jan 19 |
Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field |
Jan 20 |
Buddy Holly records "Blue Days Black Night" in Nashville |
Jan 21 |
"Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden NYC after 849 perfs |
Jan 21 |
William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker |
Jan 22 |
30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles |
Jan 22 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
Jan 22 |
Canadian Football Council forms |
Jan 24 |
96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record) |
Jan 25 |
96.5 cm (38.0") of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, HI (state record) |
Jan 26 |
7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy |
Jan 26 |
Hank Greenberg & Joe Cronin are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 26 |
Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR |
Jan 27 |
NFL's NY Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium |
Jan 27 |
Elvis Presley's releases the single "Heartbreak Hotel" |
Jan 28 |
Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on National TV (Dorsey Bros Stage Show) |
Jan 29 |
F Durrenmatt's "Der Besuch der Alten Dame," premieres in Zurich |
Jan 30 |
Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes" |
Jan 30 |
KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 30 |
KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Jan 30 |
Martin Luther King Jr.s home bombed |
Jan 31 |
French government of Mollet forms |
Jan 31 |
Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of Brazil |
Jan 31 |
Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France. |
Feb 1 |
Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking |
Feb 1 |
WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Feb 2 |
Coasters sign with Atlantic Records |
Feb 3 |
Autherine Lucy admitted to University of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot |
Feb 3 |
Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events |
Feb 4 |
AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training |
Feb 5 |
7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy |
Feb 5 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Havana Golf Open |
Feb 5 |
NY Mayor Robert Wagner & Bkln Boro Pres Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build |
Feb 6 |
Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing |
Feb 6 |
French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers |
Feb 6 |
University of Alabama suspends African-American Autherine Lucy on the grounds that it can no longer provide a safe environment for her |
Feb 8 |
Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die |
Feb 9 |
-5°F (15°C) in Sicily |
Feb 9 |
KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast |
Feb 9 |
R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria |
Feb 10 |
"My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV |
Feb 12 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open |
Feb 13 |
KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland |
Feb 14 |
20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow |
Feb 14 |
Indonesia withdraws from Neth Indonesian Union |
Feb 14 |
Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate |
Feb 15 |
Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland |
Feb 15 |
Pirates & KC A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white |
Feb 17 |
Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB |
Feb 17 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Garmisch won by Schwarz & Oppelt of AUT |
Feb 17 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by Carol Heiss USA |
Feb 17 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by H A Jenkins USA |
Feb 19 |
Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open |
Feb 20 |
WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 22 |
1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United |
Feb 23 |
20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow |
Feb 25 |
Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference |
Feb 26 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
Feb 26 |
Writers and poets Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge |
Feb 27 |
Female suffrage in Egypt |
Feb 28 |
13 die in a train crash in Swampscott Mass |
Feb 28 |
Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory |
Feb 29 |
Islamic Republic forms in Pakistan |
Feb 29 |
Pres Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term |
Mar 1 |
The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization. |
Mar 2 |
Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France |
Mar 3 |
Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel" |
Mar 3 |
Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2) |
Mar 3 |
Indonesian government of Harahap resigns |
Mar 3 |
Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne) |
Mar 3 |
Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY |
Mar 5 |
"King Kong," 1st televised |
Mar 5 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
Mar 9 |
Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested & exiled to Seychelles |
Mar 9 |
Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England |
Mar 10 |
General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios |
Mar 10 |
Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph) |
Mar 11 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
Mar 12 |
Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24) |
Mar 13 |
NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win |
Mar 14 |
Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League) |
Mar 15 |
"My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 perfs |
Mar 15 |
Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ |
Mar 16 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
Mar 16 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins |
Mar 17 |
8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show & Lucy Ball win |
Mar 19 |
Biggest NBA margin of victory - Minn Lakers-133, St Louis Hawks-75 |
Mar 20 |
156-day strike against Westinghouse ends |
Mar 20 |
E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st secretary of Polish CP |
Mar 20 |
Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) explodes |
Mar 20 |
Tunisia gains independence from France |
Mar 20 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Mar 20 |
Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp |
Mar 21 |
28th Academy Awards - "Marty", Anna Magnani & Ernest Borgnine win |
Mar 22 |
"Mr Wonderful" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances |
Mar 22 |
Death penalty against KPM-director Leon Jungschlaeger |
Mar 22 |
Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr premieres in NYC |
Mar 23 |
18th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: SF beats Iowa 83-71 |
Mar 23 |
Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (Natl Day) |
Mar 23 |
Sudan becomes independent |
Mar 26 |
Medic Alert Foundation forms |
Mar 26 |
Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One |
Mar 27 |
French commandos land in Algeria |
Mar 27 |
US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker" |
Mar 30 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Apr 1 |
10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank & Damn Yankees win |
Apr 1 |
KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 1 |
Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380 |
Apr 2 |
Peter Ustinovs' "Romanoff & Juliet" premieres in Manchester |
Apr 2 |
Soap operas "As the World Turns" & "Edge of Night" premiere on TV |
Apr 3 |
"Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 461 performances |
Apr 3 |
Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated |
Apr 3 |
German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed |
Apr 3 |
Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado. |
Apr 4 |
Enid Bagnold's "Chalk Garden" premieres in London |
Apr 5 |
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 6 |
Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison |
Apr 7 |
10th NBA Championship: Ph Warriors beat Ft Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1 |
Apr 7 |
Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco |
Apr 8 |
20th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Burke Jr wins, shooting a 289 |
Apr 8 |
6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Is SC |
Apr 8 |
M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon |
Apr 10 |
Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs |
Apr 10 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1 |
Apr 11 |
French government decides to send 200,000 reservists to Algeria |
Apr 11 |
Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater in racial incident |
Apr 12 |
Bandaranaike government forms in Ceylon |
Apr 13 |
KETA TV channel 13 in Oklahoma City, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 14 |
"Plain & Fancy" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 476 perfs |
Apr 14 |
Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder |
Apr 15 |
Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
Apr 16 |
1st solar powered radios go on sale |
Apr 17 |
Bulgaria premier Tchervenkov resigns |
Apr 17 |
Premium Savings Bonds introduced in Great Britain |
Apr 17 |
USSR's Cominform (Parliament) dissolves |
Apr 17 |
Willie Mosconi sinks 150 consecutive balls in a billiard tournament |
Apr 18 |
Egypt & Israel agree to a cease fire |
Apr 19 |
1st ML baseball game in NJ, Dodgers beat Phils in Roosevelt Stadium |
Apr 19 |
60th Boston Marathon won by Antti Viskari of Finland in 2:14:14 |
Apr 21 |
Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel", becomes #1 |
Apr 22 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open |
Apr 24 |
AL ump Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game |
Apr 25 |
Noel Coward's musical "South Sea Bubble" premieres in London |
Apr 26 |
First modern container ship, the Ideal X, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas |
Apr 27 |
Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election |
Apr 27 |
Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing |
Apr 28 |
Last French troop leave Vietnam |
Apr 28 |
Reds Frank Robinson hits his 1st of 586 HRs |
Apr 29 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
Apr 29 |
WLUC TV channel 6 in Marquette, MI (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Apr 29 |
WSPA TV channel 7 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 29 |
WWBT TV channel 12 in Richmond, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
May 1 |
A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease. |
May 2 |
US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus |
May 2 |
US Methodist church disallows racial separation |
May 3 |
Frank Loesser's musical "Most Happy Fella" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances |
May 3 |
A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000') |
May 4 |
Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam |
May 4 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
May 5 |
82nd Kentucky Derby: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:03.4 |
May 5 |
Broekster Boys soccer team forms in Damwoude |
May 5 |
Jim Bailey (US) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in LA Calif |
May 5 |
World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo |
May 6 |
Gus Bell (Reds) homers off Bob Miller in both ends of a double header |
May 6 |
WRCB TV channel 3 in Chattanooga, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
May 7 |
Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300 |
May 7 |
NY Giant Bill White, homers in his 1st at bat |
May 7 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett |
May 8 |
John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" premieres in London |
May 9 |
First ascent of Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain. |
May 9 |
War Reparations and Peace Settlement between Philippines and Japan was finally signed at Malacañang Palace under Magsaysay administration. |
May 10 |
French government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria |
May 10 |
KFSN TV channel 30 in Fresno, CA (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
May 11 |
Pinky Lee Show last airs on NBC-TV |
May 11 |
Elvis Presley's 1st entry on UK charts with "Heartbreak Hotel" |
May 12 |
Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Giants, 3-0 |
May 12 |
East Pakistan struck by cyclone & tidal waves |
May 13 |
Pachyderm Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens |
May 16 |
Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China |
May 16 |
Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia |
May 16 |
Kraft Theater presents an act from "Profiles in Courage" |
May 16 |
Laker takes 10-88 for Surrey v Australians at the Oval |
May 18 |
Hungarian party leader Matyas Rákosi enforces his own policy |
May 18 |
Mickey Mantle hits HR from both sides of plate for record 3rd time |
May 18 |
Queen Juliana opens Rembrandt fairs in Amsterdam |
May 19 |
82nd Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Fabius wins in 1:58.4 |
May 19 |
Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning HR, 1st HR in 8 straight games |
May 20 |
Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll |
May 20 |
Jordan government of Samir resigns |
May 21 |
Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms |
May 21 |
US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll |
May 21 |
WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
May 22 |
"Bob Hope Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
May 22 |
KRIS TV channel 6 in Corpus Christi, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
May 23 |
World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, SF |
May 24 |
Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna. |
May 25 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas |
May 26 |
A fire on board the aircraft carrier USS Bennington in Narragansett Bay, off Rhode Island, kills 103 crew |
May 26 |
Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman & Joe Blacks no-hitter, broken up with 2 outs in 10th & lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1 |
May 27 |
French raid in Algiers |
May 27 |
US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
May 28 |
Dale Long becomes 1st to hit HRs in 8 straight games |
May 28 |
Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus |
May 29 |
Arnold Schoenberg's "Modern Psalm" premieres |
May 29 |
WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, FL (NBC) 1st broadcast |
May 30 |
Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida |
May 30 |
Mickey Mantle misses by 18" hitting 1st HR out of Yankee Stadium |
May 30 |
US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Pat Flaherty wins in 3:53:28.872 (206.785 km/h) |
May 31 |
Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof |
Jun 2 |
Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow |
Jun 3 |
3rd class travel on British Railways ends |
Jun 3 |
KGUN TV channel 9 in Tucson, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Jun 3 |
Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Pittsburgh Golf Open |
Jun 4 |
Speech by Khrushchev criticising Stalin made public |
Jun 5 |
"Milton Berle Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
Jun 5 |
Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Const |
Jun 6 |
David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns. |
Jun 7 |
Singapore government of Marshall resigns |
Jun 8 |
Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore government |
Jun 8 |
WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jun 9 |
Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed |
Jun 10 |
16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm |
Jun 10 |
Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
Jun 13 |
"Shangri-La" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 21 performances |
Jun 13 |
After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control |
Jun 13 |
Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49 |
Jun 13 |
Real Madrid wins 1st Europe Cup |
Jun 14 |
"New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 perfs |
Jun 16 |
56th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill CC NY |
Jun 16 |
88th Belmont: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:29.8 |
Jun 17 |
Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister |
Jun 18 |
Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as British leave Suez Canal |
Jun 19 |
Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films |
Jun 20 |
Venezuelan Super Constellation crashes in NJ, 74 killed |
Jun 20 |
At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers (no else hits 1 there) |
Jun 21 |
Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere |
Jun 21 |
German DR frees almost 19,000 prisoners |
Jun 21 |
Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters |
Jun 23 |
"Jimmy Durante Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
Jun 23 |
"Transfusion" by Nervous Norvous peaks at #8 |
Jun 23 |
Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt |
Jun 24 |
"Steve Allen Show" returns on NBC-TV |
Jun 24 |
2nd LPGA Championship won by Marlene Hagge |
Jun 24 |
WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 25 |
51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" & "Stockholm" (Cape Cod) |
Jun 25 |
WKNO TV channel 10 in Memphis, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 27 |
Indians trailing Orioles 9-1 come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings |
Jun 28 |
1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill |
Jun 28 |
Riots break out in Poznan Poland, 38 die |
Jun 29 |
Charles Dumas makes 1st high jump over 7' (2.13 m)-LA, Calif |
Jun 29 |
US Federal interstate highway system act signed |
Jun 29 |
Dutch PM Drees refuses resignation of queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans) |
Jun 30 |
"Pipe Dream" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 245 performances |
Jun 30 |
"Shangri-La" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 21 performances |
Jun 30 |
Lenin's politics testament (1923) published in Moscow |
Jun 30 |
United DC-7 & TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128 |
Jul 1 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
Jul 1 |
Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on Steve Allen Show |
Jul 1 |
Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan |
Jul 2 |
Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" & "Don't Be Cruel" |
Jul 2 |
US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
Jul 4 |
Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia |
Jul 4 |
US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland |
Jul 5 |
France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria |
Jul 6 |
70th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (6-2 4-6 7-5 6-4) |
Jul 6 |
85th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England |
Jul 6 |
Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honor to outstanding pitcher |
Jul 6 |
Indians' Jim Busby hits a grand slam in two consecutive at bats |
Jul 7 |
63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61) |
Jul 7 |
Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres |
Jul 7 |
Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m). |
Jul 8 |
Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Syracuse Golf Open |
Jul 8 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
Jul 9 |
Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand |
Jul 10 |
23rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash DC |
Jul 10 |
650,000 US steel workers go on strike |
Jul 10 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
Jul 10 |
Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, Mamelodi, east of Pretoria, South Africa, a soldier of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC |
Jul 13 |
WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jul 14 |
Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0 |
Jul 15 |
Beverly Hanson/Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Hot Springs Golf Invitational |
Jul 15 |
Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8) |
Jul 16 |
Detroit Tigers & Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million |
Jul 16 |
Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR |
Jul 16 |
King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England |
Jul 16 |
Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent |
Jul 18 |
Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rákosi as party leader of Hungary |
Jul 19 |
US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam |
Jul 20 |
France recognizes Tunisian independence |
Jul 20 |
Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam |
Jul 20 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island |
Jul 20 |
Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs |
Jul 21 |
Cin Red pitcher Brooks Lawrence loses after 13 straight wins |
Jul 21 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak |
Jul 23 |
Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph |
Jul 23 |
Joe Cronin & Hank Greenberg inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jul 23 |
The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs. |
Jul 24 |
Brendan Behan's "Quare Fellow" premieres in London |
Jul 24 |
Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City |
Jul 25 |
38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston |
Jul 25 |
Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm |
Jul 25 |
Jordan attacks UN Palestine force |
Jul 26 |
Egypt seizes Suez Canal |
Jul 27 |
Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's 1st innings at Manchester |
Jul 29 |
11th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius |
Jul 29 |
Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record) |
Jul 29 |
WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jul 30 |
US motto "In God We Trust" authorized |
Jul 31 |
Laker takes 10-53 in Australia's 2nd innings, 19-90 for match |
Aug 1 |
KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 3 |
Willie Williams of US sets 100 meter record at 10.1 |
Aug 4 |
1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph) |
Aug 4 |
Elvis Presley releases "Hound Dog" |
Aug 4 |
Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands |
Aug 5 |
KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, GU (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 5 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Golf Open |
Aug 5 |
WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 6 |
After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena. |
Aug 7 |
Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans |
Aug 7 |
British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt |
Aug 7 |
Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die |
Aug 8 |
Fire & explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium |
Aug 8 |
WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins |
Aug 9 |
1st state-wide state-supported educational TV network, Alabama |
Aug 9 |
South African women demonstrate against pass laws |
Aug 10 |
23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000) |
Aug 11 |
1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620 |
Aug 11 |
Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel" |
Aug 12 |
KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
Aug 12 |
Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
Aug 13 |
WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Aug 16 |
Adlai E Stevenson nominated as US Democratic presidential candidate |
Aug 16 |
Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4 |
Aug 17 |
Federal Constitutional Court bans the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in West Germany |
Aug 17 |
One of the largest demonstrations in South Africa's history, 20,000 women marched to Pretoria's Union Buildings to present petition against carrying of passes by women to the Prime Minister |
Aug 18 |
Cin Reds (8) & Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game |
Aug 18 |
Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1 |
Aug 19 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open |
Aug 20 |
Republicans convene at Cow Palace |
Aug 21 |
WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 22 |
Elvis Presley begins filming "The Reno Brothers" (Love Me Tender) |
Aug 22 |
Pres Eisenhower & VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF |
Aug 24 |
1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC |
Aug 25 |
To make room for Enos Slaughter, NY Yanks release Phil Rizzuto |
Aug 26 |
KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 26 |
Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Denver Golf Open |
Aug 26 |
Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC |
Aug 27 |
Curt Robert of Columbus (Intl League) hits 4 HRs in 7 inning game |
Aug 28 |
England retain cricket Ashes, Jim Laker 46 wickets in the series |
Aug 29 |
French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis |
Aug 30 |
USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests) |
Aug 30 |
White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield High School, Texas |
Aug 30 |
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens. |
Sep 1 |
Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory |
Sep 1 |
KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 2 |
Collapse of a rail bridge under a train kills 120 (India) |
Sep 2 |
Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings |
Sep 2 |
Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service |
Sep 3 |
Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee |
Sep 4 |
The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage. |
Sep 5 |
20 die in a train crash in Springer NM |
Sep 7 |
Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+ |
Sep 8 |
Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks |
Sep 9 |
70th US Womens Tennis: Shirley J Fry beats Althea Gibson (63 64) |
Sep 9 |
76th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Lewis Hoad (46 62 63 63) |
Sep 9 |
African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde forms |
Sep 9 |
Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show for the 1st time |
Sep 10 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia |
Sep 10 |
Louisville Ky public schools integrates |
Sep 10 |
WSYE (now WETM) TV chan 18 in Elmira-Corning, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast |
Sep 11 |
Cin Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR |
Sep 11 |
Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8) |
Sep 11 |
Yanks Yogi Berra ties career record for HRs (236) by a catcher |
Sep 12 |
Black students enter & are barred from Clay Ky elementary school |
Sep 13 |
Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes |
Sep 13 |
Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice |
Sep 13 |
IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305. |
Sep 14 |
1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC |
Sep 16 |
Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Clock Golf Open |
Sep 17 |
Black students enter Clay Ky elementary school |
Sep 17 |
Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of year |
Sep 17 |
Television is first broadcast in Australia. |
Sep 18 |
Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a seaon |
Sep 19 |
1st international conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne) |
Sep 21 |
Yanks set dubious record, stranding 20 men on base Mantle hits a 500' plus homer but Red Sox win 13-9 in Fenway |
Sep 25 |
First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Newfoundland-Oban) |
Sep 25 |
Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0 |
Sep 28 |
"Johnny Carson Show" TV Variety last airs on CBS-TV |
Sep 28 |
RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records |
Sep 29 |
"I Love Mickey" by Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer peaks at #87 |
Sep 29 |
"Oh! Susanna" debuts on CBS-TV |
Sep 29 |
Yanks Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd HR of season |
Sep 30 |
Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR |
Sep 30 |
White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses) |
Oct 1 |
Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track |
Oct 1 |
Zestienhoven airport at Rotterdam official opens |
Oct 2 |
1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC |
Oct 3 |
Sal Maglie & Dodgers defeat Yanks 6-3 in opening game of World Series |
Oct 4 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
Oct 5 |
Yogi Berra becomes 4th Yank to hit a World Series grand slam |
Oct 6 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad |
Oct 6 |
Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine |
Oct 7 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open |
Oct 8 |
Don Larsen, NY, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn |
Oct 9 |
10th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 1-1 at Montreal |
Oct 10 |
Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match v Aus, Karachi |
Oct 10 |
On Skowron's grand slammer NY Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7 |
Oct 11 |
1st Pakistan v Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day |
Oct 11 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
Oct 11 |
AL Pres Will Harridge bars Wash Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners |
Oct 12 |
Marga Klompe becomes first Dutch women elected minister |
Oct 13 |
WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle, ME (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins |
Oct 14 |
Charles Ives' overture "Robert Browning" premieres in NYC |
Oct 14 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Arkansas Golf Open |
Oct 15 |
Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (28:42.8) |
Oct 15 |
William J Brennan Jr appointed to US Supreme Court |
Oct 15 |
Yankees Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series |
Oct 16 |
"Love Me Tender" with Elvis Presley premieres |
Oct 16 |
William J Brennan Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice |
Oct 17 |
England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens |
Oct 17 |
Pakistan defeat Australia by nine wickets at 1st attempt |
Oct 20 |
58°F (15°C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high) |
Oct 20 |
Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17' craft |
Oct 21 |
Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open |
Oct 22 |
France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella |
Oct 22 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
Oct 22 |
A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan. |
Oct 23 |
First video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast |
Oct 23 |
Revolt against Stalinist policies begins in Hungary |
Oct 23 |
Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4). |
Oct 24 |
Margaret Towner becomes first woman to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) |
Oct 24 |
AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year |
Oct 24 |
Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes PM of Hungary |
Oct 25 |
White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him |
Oct 26 |
UN's International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved |
Oct 26 |
Vietnam promulgates its constitution |
Oct 28 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus |
Oct 29 |
Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up |
Oct 29 |
International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco |
Oct 29 |
Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran |
Oct 30 |
Israel captures Egyptian military post at El-Thamad |
Oct 30 |
Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group. They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961 |
Oct 31 |
Rear Adm GJ Dufek becomes 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole |
Oct 31 |
Britain & France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal |
Oct 31 |
Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service |
Nov 1 |
Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union |
Nov 1 |
Indian state of Madhya Pradesh forms |
Nov 1 |
Indian states of Punjab, Patiala & PEPSU merge as Punjab protection |
Nov 1 |
Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact |
Nov 1 |
Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain & Bardeen |
Nov 1 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum |
Nov 1 |
Formation of Kerala state in India. |
Nov 2 |
Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion |
Nov 2 |
Israel captures Gaza & Sheham |
Nov 3 |
"Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV) |
Nov 4 |
200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Soviet movement in Budapest, Hungary |
Nov 4 |
Israel captures Straits of Tiran & reach Suez Canal Egypt |
Nov 5 |
Britain & France land forces in Egypt in reaction to seizure of Suez Canal |
Nov 5 |
Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized |
Nov 5 |
Israel liberates Sharm-el-Sheikh, reopening Gulf of Aqaba |
Nov 5 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Datis nuperrime |
Nov 5 |
The Nat King Cole Show debuts on NBC, the first variety program to be hosted by an African-American |
Nov 6 |
Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics in protest against Soviets in Hungary |
Nov 6 |
US Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D) |
Nov 8 |
UN demands USSR leave Hungary |
Nov 9 |
Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St Louis, to become NWA champ |
Nov 10 |
Gene de Paul/John Meyer's musical "Li'l Abner" premieres in NYC |
Nov 12 |
Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted |
Nov 13 |
US Supreme court rules race separation on buses in Alabama unconstitutional |
Nov 14 |
Hungarian revolt put down by Soviet invasion |
Nov 15 |
"Li'l Abner" opens at St James Theater NYC for 693 performances |
Nov 15 |
Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender" premieres in NYC |
Nov 17 |
Syracuse fullback Jim Brown, scores NCAA record of 43 pts (vs Colgate) |
Nov 17 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
Nov 18 |
Morocco gains independence |
Nov 21 |
Don Newcombe, wins NL MVP & 1st-ever Cy Young Award |
Nov 22 |
16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne |
Nov 22 |
Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games |
Nov 24 |
"Pajama Game" closes at St James Theater NYC after 1063 performances |
Nov 24 |
44th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 50-27 |
Nov 26 |
"The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC |
Nov 26 |
USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, & loses his medal, it sinks |
Nov 27 |
F Goodrich and A Hackett's "Diary of Anne Frank" premieres in Netherlands |
Nov 28 |
Photography begins on "... & God Created Women" |
Nov 29 |
"Bells Are Ringing" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 925 performances |
Nov 30 |
1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards & the News) |
Nov 30 |
Floyd Patterson KOs Archie Moore in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
Dec 1 |
"Candide" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 73 performances |
Dec 1 |
Alain Mimoun wins 13th Olympics marathon (2:25:00.0) |
Dec 1 |
Frank Robinson (NL) & Luis Aparicio (AL) voted Rookie of the Year |
Dec 1 |
Indonesian VP Mohammed Hatta resigns |
Dec 2 |
Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba |
Dec 3 |
Bitain and France pull troops out of Egypt |
Dec 3 |
KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast |
Dec 3 |
Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52) |
Dec 4 |
22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (QB) |
Dec 5 |
Thornton Wilder's "Matchmaker" premieres in NYC |
Dec 6 |
"Happy Hunting" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 413 performances |
Dec 6 |
Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in S Africa |
Dec 7 |
Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel |
Dec 8 |
16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia |
Dec 8 |
1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0 |
Dec 8 |
Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks |
Dec 10 |
Establishment of MPLA in Angola |
Dec 11 |
Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland |
Dec 12 |
Commencement of the Irish Republican Army's Border Campaign. |
Dec 13 |
Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield & $35,000 Robinson retires |
Dec 14 |
Paul-Henri Spaak appointed secretary-general of NATO |
Dec 15 |
Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes |
Dec 15 |
KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 15 |
WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Dec 16 |
"Fanny" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 888 performances |
Dec 18 |
"To Tell the Truth" debuts on CBS-TV |
Dec 18 |
Israeli flag hoisted on Mount Sinai |
Dec 18 |
Japan admitted to UN |
Dec 18 |
Phil Rizzuto signs as NY Yankee radio-TV announcer |
Dec 20 |
Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra |
Dec 20 |
Montgomery, Ala, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses |
Dec 22 |
"New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 perfs |
Dec 22 |
Last British/French troops leave Egypt |
Dec 22 |
Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Columbus Ohio |
Dec 24 |
"I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication |
Dec 24 |
Ferdinand de Lesseps statue blown up in Port Said Egypt |
Dec 27 |
45th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Adelaide (5-0) |
Dec 27 |
Bill Sharman (Boston) ends NBA free throw streak of 55 games |
Dec 28 |
Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV |
Dec 30 |
NY Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game |
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