February 1956 calendar

February 1956
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in February 1956.
The US president was Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Sir Anthony Eden (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on February 1956: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of February 1956?

Events

01 Feb 1956 Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
02 Feb 1956 Coasters sign with Atlantic Records
03 Feb 1956 Toni Sailor becomes first Olympics skier to sweep the three alpine events.
05 Feb 1956 Louise Suggs win LPGA Havana Golf Open.
06 Feb 1956 French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers.
07 Feb 1956 Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled
08 Feb 1956 Connie Mack, baseball manager (Philadelphia Athletics, 1901-50), dies at age 93.
09 Feb 1956 KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
10 Feb 1956 My Friend Flicka premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
11 Feb 1956 British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union after being missing for 5 years.
12 Feb 1956 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open.
13 Feb 1956 KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland
14 Feb 1956 Verhoeven / Nauta / De King / Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
15 Feb 1956 Urho Kekkonen is appointed President of Finland.
16 Feb 1956 Only a little more than four months after the release of the 70mm version of ''Oklahoma!'', the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''Carousel'', starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, is released in Cinemascope 55. MacRae and Jones had previously starred in ''Oklahoma!'' ''Carousel'', intended for showing in 55mm, ends up being shown only in 35mm.
17 Feb 1956 Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas of Great Britain.
19 Feb 1956 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Golf Open.
20 Feb 1956 WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
23 Feb 1956 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow
24 Feb 1956 Doris Day records her most famous song: Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be). It is from Alfred Hitchcock's ''The Man Who Knew Too Much'', in which Day co-stars with James Stewart.
25 Feb 1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
26 Feb 1956 Writers Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
27 Feb 1956 Female suffrage in Egypt.
28 Feb 1956 Thirteen die in a train crash in Swampscott, Massachusetts, USA.
29 Feb 1956 In Centerville, South Dakota, USA a building is hit by a falling meteorite.
20 Feb 1956 The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.