October 1956 calendar

October 1956
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in October 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 October 1956: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of October 1956?

Events

01 Oct 1956 Zestienhoven airport at Rotterdam official opens
02 Oct 1956 First atomic power clock exhibited-New York City.
03 Oct 1956 Sal Maglie and Dodgers defeat Yanks 6-3 in opening game of World Series
05 Oct 1956 Yogi Berra becomes the fourth New York Yankees' player to hit a World Series Grand Slam (World Series #53).
06 Oct 1956 Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
07 Oct 1956 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open
08 Oct 1956 New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series; one of only 20 perfect games in MLB history.
09 Oct 1956 10th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 1-1 at Montreal
10 Oct 1956 Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match vs. Aus, Karachi
11 Oct 1956 1st Pakistan vs. Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day
13 Oct 1956 WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle, ME (CBS / NBC / ABC) begins
14 Oct 1956 Patty Berg wins LPGA Arkansas Golf Open
15 Oct 1956 Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
16 Oct 1956 William J Brennan Jr becomes a US Supreme Court Justice.
17 Oct 1956 Pakistan defeat Australia by nine wickets at 1st attempt
19 Oct 1956 The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
21 Oct 1956 Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
22 Oct 1956 France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella
23 Oct 1956 First video recording on magnetic tape televised in USA, coast-to-coast.
24 Oct 1956 AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year
25 Oct 1956 White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him
26 Oct 1956 Vietnam promulgates its constitution.
28 Oct 1956 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus
29 Oct 1956 Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
30 Oct 1956 Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961
31 Oct 1956 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole - Rear Admiral GJ Dufek
08 Oct 1956 The New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.