September 1956 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1956 KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 02 Sep 1956 Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
• 03 Sep 1956 Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee
• 04 Sep 1956 The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage.
• 05 Sep 1956 20 die in a train crash in Springer, New Mexico, USA.
• 07 Sep 1956 Bell X-2 sets unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000+ feet.
• 09 Sep 1956 70th US Womens Tennis: Shirley J Fry beats Althea Gibson (63 64)
• 10 Sep 1956 Louisville Ky public schools integrates
• 11 Sep 1956 Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
• 12 Sep 1956 Black students enter and are barred from Clay Ky elementary school
• 13 Sep 1956 In the USA, IBM introduces the IBM 350 Disk File, the first hard drive, as part of the IBM RAMAC 305 computer. The drive features fifty double-sided 24-inch diameter platters, served by one arm and one read/write head. Capacity is about 5MB, and transfer rate is 8800 characters per second.
• 14 Sep 1956 First prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC.
• 16 Sep 1956 Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Clock Golf Open
• 17 Sep 1956 Black students enter Clay Ky elementary school
• 18 Sep 1956 Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a seaon
• 21 Sep 1956 Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza García is assassinated.
• 24 Sep 1956 1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland)
• 25 Sep 1956 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Scot-Canada)
• 27 Sep 1956 USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
• 28 Sep 1956 Johnny Carson Show, TV Variety
• 29 Sep 1956 I Love Mickey by Mickey Mantle and Teresa Brewer peaks at #87
• 30 Sep 1956 Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR

Famous Birthday

• David Copperfield

  American magician, a natural-born showman world famous with his outstanding productions of some 500 live performances a year plus TV...

• Linda Hamilton

  Movie Actress.

• Alain Ducasse

  French chef and restaurateur who opened the most expensive restaurant in New York City in June 2000.

• Paolo Rossi

  Italian soccer player; helped Italy win the World Cup 1982.

• Leslie Cheung

  Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2003).

• Cyril Neveu
• Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium
• Ann Zacharias
• Costas Karamanlis

  Greek politician, the leader of the Opposition, visible in the news in April 2000.

• Debby Boone

  American singer and noted family, the first of four daughters of singer Pat Boone.

• Sebastian Coe

  English sprinter and politician.

• Diane Warren

  American songwriter whose prolific talent has produced over a thousand songs that, according to one source, earns her over $20 million in...

• Jean Dionis du Séjour
• Mary C Kennedy
• Big Brother Karen
• Leslie Hamilton
• Gary Cole

  American actor.

• Pierre Morange
• Louis Gautier
• Stefan Johansson

  Swedish race car driver.

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Famous Deaths

• Felix Borowski

  Composer, dies at 84.

• Gerrit Bolkestein

  Dutch Minister of Education (1939-4.

• Henry Clough-Leiter

  Composer, dies at 82.

• Mildred E "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias

  (1932 Olympics - Gold Medalist), dies at 42.

• Robert Mills Delaney

  Composer, dies at 53.

• Earl Godwin

  Newscaster (Meet the Veep), dies at 75.

• [Mildred] Babe Didrikson-Zaharias

  Javelin (1932 Olympics - Gold Medalist), dies at 45.

• Gerald Raphael Finzi

  Composer, dies at 55.

• Billy Bishop

  Canadian fighter pilot (Born 1894).

• Milburn Apt in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph

  but dies in crash.

• Sandor Graf Festetics

  Hungarian politician (Born 1882).

• Adelard Godbout

  premier of Quebec (Born 1892).

• William Edward Boeing

  American aviation manufacturer (Born 1881).

• Hans Carossa

  German poet and novelist, one of the most popular and best selling writers in Germany.

• Lucien Febvre

  French historian, a leading figure from the time of his thesis in 1911.

• Gerald Finzi

  English composer and academic (d. 1956).

• Frederick Soddy

  English chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956).

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Top #1 songs in the USA

1. Doris Day - Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Doris Day - Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera)
2. Anne Shelton - Lay Down Your Arms
3. Frankie Laine - A Woman In Love
4. Bill Haley & His Comets - Rockin' Through The Rye
5. Elvis Presley - Hound Dog