April 1956 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1956 10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank and Damn Yankees win.
• 02 Apr 1956 Soap operas As the World Turns andEdge of Night premieres on TV
• 03 Apr 1956 Silk Stockings closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 461 performances
• 05 Apr 1956 Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
• 06 Apr 1956 Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison.
• 07 Apr 1956 10th NBA Championship: Philadelphia Warriors beat Fort Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1.
• 08 Apr 1956 Six marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Island, South Carolina, USA.
• 09 Apr 1956 Habib Bourguiba is elected prime minister of Tunisia.
• 10 Apr 1956 Philips broadcasts first Dutch color TV programs.
• 11 Apr 1956 French government decides to send 200,000 reservists to Algeria.
• 12 Apr 1956 Bandaranaike government forms in Ceylon.
• 13 Apr 1956 KETA TV channel 13 in Oklahoma City, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 14 Apr 1956 Plain & Fancy closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 476 performances
• 15 Apr 1956 Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open.
• 17 Apr 1956 Kominform disbands
• 18 Apr 1956 Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony)
• 19 Apr 1956 1st ML baseball game in NJ, Dodgers beat Phils in Roosevelt Stadium
• 21 Apr 1956 Former U.S. First Daughter Margaret Truman marries Clifton Daniel.
• 22 Apr 1956 Patty Berg wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open.
• 23 Apr 1956 US Supreme court ends race segregation on buses.
• 26 Apr 1956 First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
• 27 Apr 1956 Heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing.
• 28 Apr 1956 Reds Frank Robinson hits his 1st of 586 HRs
• 29 Apr 1956 WLUC TV channel 6 in Marquette, MI (CBS / NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
• 30 Apr 1956 Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming ''I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty.''

Famous Birthday

• Andy García

  Cuban-American actor singer director and producer.

• Lars von Trier

  Danish film director.

• Michèle Bernier
• Miguel Bosé

  Spanish/Italian musician and actor, born in Panama as the son of Italian actress Lucia Bosè (real name Lucia Borloni) and bullfighter Luis...

• Eric Roberts

  Movie Actor.

• Melody Thomas Scott
• Michele Bachmann

  American politican, a Congresswoman from Minnesota and Presidential hopeful in the 2012 race.

• Patrick Chêne
• Jorge Chaminé

  Portuguese opera singer.

• David E Kelley
• Catherine Colonna

  French diplomat and political figure, the current Ambassador of France to Italy since 14 August 2014.

• Francky Vincent
• Dominique Blanc

  French film and stage comedian, Chéreau's preferred actress.

• Michel Neyret
• Herbert Grönemeyer

  German musician and actor, popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

• Christine Boisson

  French actress.

• Jimmy Barnes

  Scottish-Australian rock singer-songwriter whose career both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel has...

• François Schuiten
• Tama Janowitz

  American novelist and writer of magazine articles, a contemporary hip and trendy New York underground figure whose works show the alchemy of...

• John James (actor)
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Famous Deaths

• T Kostov

  Bulgarian Vice Premier, executed.

• Emile Nolde [Hansen]

  German Painter (Grablegung Christi), dies at 88.

• Albert MLA de Bassompierre

  Belgium ambassador to Tokyo, dies at 82.

• Chester Clute

  Actor (Niagara Falls), dies at 65.

• Philippo de Pisis

  Italian painter, dies at 59.

• Bozidar Sirola

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Jozef Szulc

  Composer, dies at 81.

• Jaap Vranken

  Organist / Composer (Stabat mater).

• Lieven Duvosel

  Flemish music Composer (Levensschets), dies at 78.

• Albrecht G Alt

  German Theologist (Small Schriften), dies at 72.

• Nemesio Otano y Eugenio

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Henry Stephenson

  Actor (Conquest, Mr Lucky), dies at 85.

• Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb

  German field marshal (Born 1876).

• Alben W Barkley

  Vice President of the United States (Born 1877).

• Clarence Beaumont

  first batter in first World Series, dies at age 75.

• Lionel K P "Buster" Crabb

  British diver (WWII), dies at age 47.

• Ernst R Curtius

  German literature historian, dies at age 70.

• Alben W Barkley (US Vice President-Democrat-1949-53)

  dies at age 78.

• Charles MacArthur

  American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1956).

• Edward Arnold

  Actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 66.

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Top #2 songs in the USA

1. The Platters - The Great Pretender
2. Perry Como - Juke Box Baby

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Winifred Atwell - The Poor People Of Paris
2. Ronnie Hilton - No Other Love
3. Kay Starr - Rock And Roll Waltz
4. The Dreamweavers - It's Almost Tomorrow
5. The Hilltoppers - Only You