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JANUARY
Democratic politician
j-iiank Hague. 79 , died.
5 In State fi Union Menage,
President i-isenhower called
upon Congress to strengthen
US. and its allies.
S Prince Maimer - Grace Kelly
G engagement announced.
12 U.S. Justice Dept. announc
cd BrilK's robbery solved.
12i Pitiat Sarn Langford died
at 75:
13 L.S. Navy and Air Force
3 announced they would
l;iunit first man-niide satel
lue into outer .'pace from
g Air Force base in Florida.
i" Ford Motors stock sold to
O public for first time.
22 Santa I'e commuter train en
route to SmiDiegu derailed
g a'r, I Angeles; 2 killed,
g 100 injure!. ,
2a Movie producer Alexander
0 Korda. fc2. r!.ed.
23- ir sjdent Eisenhower reject
ed iiovict bid for 20-jear
frij'lsuJp pact.
23-u'Ur-:ritic II. L. Mencken,
7j, dieci.
30. President- Eisenhower, Sir
0 Anihoj.y EoVn opened tliree
' day roun of discussions on
worki. problems in Washing
ton." JXSHUAKY
2 Comer'iiin Rob Burns died at
6."i.
Qf .Vutheruie J. Lucy, "first Ne
iTrt tturieut at University of
Ala..Jsusndcd to curb anti
rgro demonstrations,
?3 8. Connie Mack, grand old man
Of baseball, died at 93.
it Donald MacLcan and Guy
Burijess, British ex-diplo-H
;its" wlio vanished in 1951
G tinned opionaye charges in
o.
Moscow mtcrview.
1 1 Pre.-id'iit Eisenhower's
t'liysicians reported him fit
to run.
lS-C'rho
Kekkonen elected
prr.-sident of Finland.
17 White House announced sus
pension of arms shipments
Cfrom U.S. to Middle East.
17 President Eisenhower ve
toed natural gas bill.
17 Forty Marines killed in
, plane crash in Alameda
count;-. Calif.
18 Fifty killer! when plane
carrying British troops from
Egypt to England crashed at
Malta.
13 Defense Minister Georgi K.
q Zoukov warned U.S. on al
O omc war.
18 President Eisenhower lifted
U.S. embargo on arms ship
ments to MiriUle East.
19 Composer Gustave Charperi-
tier died at .95.
20 French airl'.ter. enroute
from Saigon to Paris, crash
ed pear Cairo; 52 dead, 12
c s trvivurj.
C21 P.ela Kun, Hungarian revolu
tionary, posthumously re
q stored to place of honor in
CoiMuinist history.
21 More than 100 persons in
dieted by grand jury for jn-
'--vol'.ement in boycott of
Mrmtgomcry s (Ala.) buses
by Negroes.
21 Lirtin Frankri Goldman.
bandmaster-composer, died
0 W73. ,
22 Uranium valued at one bil
G (jlioa dollars released by Pres
0 irlent Eisenhower for peace
ful f u i puses nere anu
22 TJesignrr Hattie Carnegie,
6''. died.
27 E!s Janis. "Sweetheart of
Oe AEF." died at 66.
ST Italian President Giovanni
"q ;ronchi began Washington
V!)t.
29 President Eisenhower said
he woulj seek second term.
29 F.lpidm Q u i r i n o. former
Q Jjresid'Tt of Ftuiippincs.
died . Co.
MARCH
1 Autl;crii J. Lucy "perma
nently excelled from Uni
p vrrsity of Ala.
- l.t Gen. John Bagot Glubb.
Q r.r:U-h commander of Arab
T.rcMi,, ousted by Jordan.
3 USAif C-124 Globemaster,
en route from Iceland to
(J3)C?ew York, crashed in North
Atlantic: all 17 U.S. service
men killed.
5 Supreme Court' extended
segregation ban to colleges.
6 ".-dent Eineiower asked
Eua to join U.S. in halt
ing prod.irii of fissionable
materials for w ar.
9 Brit ii deported Archbishop
Makarios ..from Cyprus.
q10 yrpr crimiled in protest
strfke over, exile of Mak
arios; anti-British rolling in
Greece.
12-EnEagrment of .Margaret
O Truman to newspaperman
Clifton Dsjiicl announced.
IS- Georgi Malcnkov, former
G Russian premier, arrived for
Ldon visit.
15 Prince Ernst Rurdigr von
O Si.irhembcrg, 56, died in
Au.-itna. to
IS Earthquakes shook Lebanon;
IZi perished.
17 Comedian Fred Allen diet
17 I.ne Joliot-Curie. 53,
tic.!.
IS Author Louis Bromfield, 59.
nica
20 We.-tinghouse Electrics 156-
cay strike ended.
26 Supreme Court upheld con-0s-itutionality
of Immunity
" Act of 1954.
23-"?Lir.d's parliament called
for withdrawal of U.S.
troops.
23 Laszlo Rajk, excuted as trai-
tor, cleared by Hungary.
' APRIL
1 TransWorld airliner, leav
ing Pittsburgh for Newark.
N. J., crashed seconds after
takeoff; 22 dead. 14 surviv
ors. 2 Supreme court ruled out
trials by states in sedition
cases.
2 Alfred P. Sloan Jr. retired
as chairman of General Mo
tors. 3 Traicho Kostov, executed
for high treason in 1949, re
stored to grace by Bulgaria.
5 Victor Riesel, labor colum
nist, blinded in acid attack
by unknown assailant in
New York city.
7 Soviet press (for first time)
blamed Stalin for war de
feats. 7 Spain, Morocco signed de
claration recognizing Moroc
co s right to full freedom.
7 250 killed in anti-rebel drive
in Algiers.
8 Six Marine recruits drown
ed in tidal swamp off Parris
Island Marine Base (S. C.)
during night march: ordered
and led by S Sgt. Matthew
C. McKeon, 31.
12 Egyptian plane flyuis over
Israel's Negev desert area,
shot down by Israeli jet
fighters; Israel charged "un
interrupted Egyptian aggres
sion." 13 Gen. Lauris N'orstad named
to succeed Gen. Alfred M.
Grucnther as head of NATO
command; Gruenther to re
tire at end of 1956.
14 Aircraft carrier Saratoga
commissioned.
15 In Independence Day broad
cast. Premier David Ben
Gurion said Egypt was plan
ning to "slaughter" Israel.
15 Tornado ripped Alabama
region; 17 killed, 200 injur
ed.
16 President Eisenhower veto
ed farm bill.
16 Bulgarian Premier Vulko
Chervenkov resigned; Anton
Yugov succeeded.
13 Grace Kelly married to
Prince Rainier III in civil
ceremony in Monaco.
13 Israel, Egypt agreed, to en
force UN truce.
21 Margaret Truman wed to
Clifton Daniel.
21 Playwright Charles Mac
Arthur died at 60.
23 Supreme Court sustained
lower court ruling that seg
regation on bus lines in
South Carolina is unconstit
utional. 23 In Birmingham. Eng., Nikita
S. Khrushchev warned that
Russia would make a guid
ed missile with a hydrogen
bomb warhead capable of
hitting any target in the
world.
26 .Vice-President Nixon an
nounced he wold accept re
' nomination.
26 Actor Edward Arnold,' 66,
died.
27 Rocky Marciano, heavy
weight champion, announc
ed his retirement.
28 New York City's new Col
iseum officially opened.
29 Cuban government post at
Matanzas attacked by rebels:
uprising quelled with loss of
10 lives.
30 U.S. Sen. Alben W. Barkley,
78, died.
MAY
5 Needles won $167,550 Ken
tucky Derby.
11 Russia received British apol
ogy for unauthorized snoop
ing by Royal Navy frogman
near Soviet warships at
Portsmouth.
12 Actor Louis Calhern, 61,
died.
14 Soviet Union announced
plan to reduce armed forces
. by 1.200.000 within year.
16 President Sukarno of Indo
nesia arrived in Washington
on state visit.
13 Communist newspaper in
Moscow published in part
Lnin's warning against
Stalin.
19 Sir Max Beerbohm, essayist
and critic, died at 83.
21 First U.S. hydrogen bomb
dropped from a plane ex
ploded over Namu Island in
the Bikini atoll.
26 Ball player Al Simmons died
at 53.
28 President Eisenhower signed
farm bill.
26 Swiss mountaineers an
nounced scaling Mt. Everest
twice; also reported first
ascent of twin peak, Lhotse.
23 Fred A. Scaton nominated
by President Eisenhower to
succeed Douglas McKay as
secretary of interior.
29 Dr. Jesus de Galindez. Spanish-Basque
lecturer at Co
lumbia University, reported
to have been murdered on
freighter. Dr. de Galindez
missing since March 12.
JUNE
1 Jesse H Jones, financier,
died at R2.
1 V M. Molotov resigned as
Soviet foreign minister. i
2 President Tito of Yugoslavia j
arrived in Moscow.
2 Actor Jean Hersholt. 63. ;
died.
5 Federal court in Alabama
ruled that racial segregation
in city buses in Montgomery
violated federal constitution.
9 President Eisenhower oper
ated on for relief intestinal
obstruction ileitis.
10 Attempted Peronist coun-
t
ter revolution smashed by
Navy and Air Force planes
in Argentina; 40 rebels ex
ecuted. 12 Committee of leading U. S.
scientists reported that
atomic radiation, however
small, was harmful both to
receiver and all descend
ants. 14 T. Lamar Caudle and Mat
thew J. Connelly found
guilty by ffderal jury in tax
case.
14 Wildcat subway strike in
New York City from 1 p.m.
to 10:30 p.m.
17 Mrs. Golda Myerson voted
to succeed Moshe Sharett as
Israeli foreign minister.
19 Martial law ended in Egypt
after four years.
19 Thomas J. Watson Sr., I B M.
board chairman, died at 82.
20 Venezuelan airliner. Caracas-bound,
crashed into At
lantic: 74 perish.
22 Poet Walter de la Mare, 83,
died.
23 Novelist Michael Arlen, 60,
died.
24 BOAC Argonaut, en route to
London, crashed in Nigeria:
32 killed.
25 Fleet Admiral Ernest J.
King, 77. died.
25 Minnie Mangum imprisoned
for embezzling Sl.082.968
from Norfolk (Va.) Building
& Loan Association.
28 Riots broke out in Poznan,
Poland: 38 killed, 270 in
jured in two days.
30 Two airliners (believed to
have collided) crashed into
Grand Canyon in northern
Arizona; 123 persons killed;
planes were a TWA Super
Constellation and a United
Air Lines DC-7.
30 Nation-wide steel strike be
gan. 30 After 33 years of suppres
sion, text of Lenin's "testa
ment" published in Moscow:
removal of Stalin as general
secretary o f Communist
Party had been proposed by
Lenin.
30 President Eisenhower dis
charged from hospital.
JULY
4 Peter Weinberger, 33 days
old, kidnaped from home in
Westbury, L. I.
9 Earthquake rocked Greek
island of Thera in Aegean;
42 killed; 46 injured.
10 President Eisenhower an
nounced he would seek sec
ond term.
10 Soviet Union charged air in
cursions by U. S. aircraft.
12 Fifteen members of Supreme
Soviet arrived in London.
13 Military Air Transport C-118
rrashed during rainstorm in
Fort Dix wooded area; 45
killed. 21 injured.
14 President Eisenhower sign
. ed bill authorizing death
penalty for sabotage.
14 Former John Wanamaker
store building in New York
City destroyed in five-alarm
fire.
18 Matyas Rakosi. first secre
tary of Hungarian Workers
Party, resigned; succeeded
by Erno Gcro.
19 Sir Harold Caccia named
new British ambassador to
U. S.; replaced Sir Roger
Makin.
21 Anjar, India, shattered by
earthquake: 117 killed.
25 Ocean liners Andrea Dorea,
Stockholm collided in heavy
fog 45 miles south of Nan
tucket Island; 53 dead; An
drea Dorea sank.
26 Egypt seized Suez Canal.
27 Steel strike settled.
28 Britain blocked all Egyptian
accounts in United King
dom. 29 Petroleum tank explosion
near Dumas, Tex., killed 19,
injured 32.
AUGUST
1 President Eisenhower sign
ed new Social Security Bill.
2 Albert Woolson, last Union
ATmy veteran, died at 109.
4 Marine S Sgt. Matthew C.
McKeon sentenced in Parris
Island swamp case.
6 Seven-year ban on visits by
U. S. Correspondents to
Communist China lifted.
7 Peiping radio reported ty
phoon struck provinces of
Chekiang. Honan and Hopeh
previous week: 2.161 killed.
7 Dynamite blast in Cali, Co
lombia, killed an estimated
1.200; damage to business,
industry estimated at S40,
000.000. S Fire in Casier du Bois real
mine in Maxcinelle. Bel
gium, killed 282 miners.
13 Arthur Bliss Lane, former
diplomat, died at 62.
16 Adlai E. Stevenson nomi
nated for president on first
ballot by Democrats in Chi
cago. 17 Estes Kefauver nominated
for vice-president by Demo
crats. 17 Victor Riesel acid-throwing
episode reported solved bv
FBI.
22 President Eisenhower. Vice
President Nixon renomi
nated by Republicans in San
Francisco.
23 Angelo John LaMarca con
fessed kidnaping Peter
Weinberger.
24 Body of kidnaped Peter
Weinberger found on Long
Island.
25 Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, 62,
died.
26 Nuclear weapon exploded
by Soviet Union Aug. 24 in
Soviet Central Asia, White
House announced.
23 Sec. Dulles said Communist
China admitted downing
plane at about time and
place where a U.S. plane
was lost last week.
29 U. S., India signed record
S360, 100,000 food-loan pact.
SEPTEMBER
3 U. S. Atomic Energy Com
mission revealed explosion
of atomic blast by Soviet
Union in Soviet Central
Asia; occurred Sept. 2.
3 New violence in Tennessee
over integration.
5 Santa Fe Chief, enroute
from Chicago to Los An
geles, crashed into parked
mail train near Springer,
N. M.; 20 killed.
6 Body of 6-week-old Cynthia
Ruotolo, kidnaped Sept. 1.
found in Lake Whitney
(Conn.).
7 Johnny Dio and six others
indicted on charge of con
spiracy in acid-blinding of
Victor Riesel.
7 Sherman Minton announced
retirement from Supreme
Court.
8 Soviet government an
nounced its first guarantee
of minimum wage, effective
Jan. 1, 1957.
9 Suez talks in Cairo ended in
failure.
15 Freighter Pelagia broke in
two and sank in Arctic
storm off Norway; 31 of 36
crewmen perished.
18 New York Yankees clinched
American League pennant.
21 Nicaraguan President Anas
tasio Somoza wounded by
assassin in Managua.
25 First telephone cable opened
between North America and
Europe.
27 Mrs. Mildred (Babe) Didrik
son Zaharias, 42, died.
27 Marshal Tito flew to Rus
sia with Nikita S. Khrush
. chev on undisclosed mission.
29 Wiliam Joseph Brennan Jr.
named to succeed retiring
Supreme Court Justice
Sherman Minton.
29 President Somoza of Nicara
gua died of wounds.
30 Brooklyn Dodgers won Na
tional League championship.
OCTOBER
1 Suez Canal Users" Associa
tion formed in London.
7 American Labor Party dis
solved after 20 years.
8 Yankee pitcher Don Larsen
hurled first no-hit, perfect
game in World Series his
tory in filth game. Score,
2-0.
10 N. Y. Yankees captured 1956
World Series, defeating
Dodgers in seven games.
14 Playwright Owen Davis, 82,
died.
19 Soviet Union. Japan signed
pact ending 11 years of state
of war.
21 Dr. Julio Lozano Diaz oust
ed in Honduras by military
junta in bloodless revolu
tion. 23 Hungarian police fired on
rioting Budapest demonstra
tors protesting presence of
Soviet troops in Hungary.
26 rRebcl forces seized control
of most of Hungary.
29 Israeli troops invaded
Egypt.
31 British and French joined
' Israelis in attack on Egypt.
NOVEMBER
2 Russian troops, planes and
armored equipment invaded
Hungary.
6 President Eisenhower re
elected. 7 Battle of Budapest ended in
Soviet victory at 4 p.m.
8 Marshall Field 3rd died at
63.
13 Britain ended military op
erations against Mau Mau
terrorists in Kenya.
13 Supreme Court ruled bus
segregation unconstitution
al. 14 Spain's Dr. Juan Negrin, 64,
died.
16 U. S. East and Gulf Coast
pier strike began.
19 Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce re
signed as ambassador to
Italy.
20 Gen. Lauris Norsted took
command of NATO.
21 David Zellerbach named
U. S. ambassador to Italy.
23 Imre Nagy reported kidnap
ed by Soviet police in front
of Y'ugoslav embassy in Bu
dapest. 24 President Eisenhower's use
of Taft-Hartley Act brought
temporary halt to long
shoremen's strike.
24 Italian airline DC-6B. bound
for N. Y., crashed in take
off from Orly Airfield in
Paris; 34 killed.
27 Airliner, bound from N. Y.
to Caracas. Venezuela,
crashed and exploded near
Caracas: 25 aboard killed.
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30 Floyd Patterson becitnt
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champion by knocking out
Archie Moore in fifth round
in Chicago.
DECEMBER
1 Iraq placed under martial
law by king's decree.
3 Fire and explosion at Brook
lyn pier of Luckenbach
Steamship Lines killed 1G
persons, injured 246: dam
age estimated at $15,000,
000. 4 D o u g I a s MacArthur 2nd
named U. S. ambassador to
Japan.
5 Hungary rejected proposed
Dec. 16 visit by "UN's Dag
i Hammarskjold.
8 Herbert Hoover Jr., re
signed as under secretary of
state; Christian A. Herter
to replace.
9 Trans - Canadian Airlines
plane, carrying 62 persons,
unreported en route from
Vancouver to Montreal.
10 World Fund granted Britain
SI. 3 billion credit.
11 Hungarian Foreign Minister
Imre Horvath walked out of
the UN General Assembly,
charging his government
was "rudely and disgrace
fully offended" by debate
on Hungarian issue.
12 Gen. Paul E. Magloire re
signed as Haiti's provisional
chief of state.
15 United States offers to share
modern atomic weapons
with NATO members. Egyp
tian commandoes attack Bri
tish troops.
16 President Eisenhower an
nounces S4 million grant to
help Austria care for Hun
garian refugees. Hungarian
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