March 1956 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1956 The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
• 02 Mar 1956 The British deport Archbishop Makarios from Cyprus to the Seychelles.
• 03 Mar 1956 Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
• 05 Mar 1956 King Kong, 1st televised
• 09 Mar 1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
• 10 Mar 1956 Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph).
• 11 Mar 1956 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.
• 13 Mar 1956 Elvis Presley releases his first Gold Album titled ''Elvis Presley''.
• 14 Mar 1956 Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)
• 15 Mar 1956 My Fair Lady opens at Mark Hellinger Theater in New York City for 2,715 performances.
• 16 Mar 1956 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright.
• 17 Mar 1956 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show and Lucy Ball
• 19 Mar 1956 Biggest NBA margin of victory: Minnesota Lakers-133, Saint Louis Hawks-75.
• 20 Mar 1956 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends
• 21 Mar 1956 28th Academy Awards - Marty, Anna Magnani and Ernest Borgnine win
• 22 Mar 1956 Mr Wonderful opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances
• 23 Mar 1956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic Republic in Commonwealth
• 26 Mar 1956 Medic Alert Foundation forms
• 27 Mar 1956 US seizes American communist newspaper Daily Worker.

Famous Birthday

• Bryan Cranston

  American actor, screenwriter, film director and producer, son of actor Joe Cranston, he received 4 Emmy awards in August 2014.

• Dana Delany

  TV Actress.

• Rotterdam (Netherlands)
• Catherine Leprince
• José Manuel Barroso
• Shashi Tharoor

  Indian author & United Nations Under-Secretary General.

• Maria Teresa Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
• Patti Hansen

  Actress.

• Steve Ballmer

  American businessman.

• Teena Marie

  American singer and composer (Born 1956).

• Steve Harris (musician)
• Timothy Daly
• John Kapelos

  Canadian actor director producer and screenwriter.

• Eduardo Rodríguez
• Catherine Ashton

  English politician Vice-President of the European Commission.

• Vivian Martin

  American astrologer and journalist who is the author of a general book on astrology that was published in the fall of 1987.

• François Brottes
• Marleen de Cokere
• Ingemar Stenmark

  Swedish skier.

• Alexey Pajitnov
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Famous Deaths

• Fred Allen

  New Zealand rugby player and coach (d. 2012).

• Joseph John Richards

  Composer, dies at 77.

• George Luther Foote

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup

  Vocalist, dies of a heart attack.

• Ralph DePalma

  Italian-born race car driver (Born 1884).

• Willem H Keesom

  Dutch physicist (Helium I/II), dies at age 79.

• Erich Itor Kahn

  Composer, dies at 50.

• Friedrich Panzer

  German germanist (Hilde-Gudrun), dies at age 85.

• George A L Sarton

  Belgian/US historian, dies at age 71.

• Frans Beelaerts van Blokland

  minister of Foreign affairs, dies at age 84.

• Infante Alfonso

  of Spain (Born 1941).

• Louis Bromfield

  American author and theorist (d. 1956).

• Robert Newton

  England, United Kingdom -- Actor (Henry V, Around the World in 80 Days).

• Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko

  Russian opera composer, dies at age 83.

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Top #1 songs in the USA

1. The Platters - The Great Pretender

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Dreamweavers - It's Almost Tomorrow
2. Winifred Atwell - The Poor People Of Paris
3. Dean Martin - Memories Are Made Of This
4. Kay Starr - Rock And Roll Waltz
5. Lou Busch - Zambesi