Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.
Tag: 1956
1 November 1956
The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
25 September 1956
TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
21 October 1956
The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya is defeated. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_Uprising’]
3 January 1956
Fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower. An electrical fire briefly engulfed a top corner of the Eiffel Tower today, startling tourists and…
2 March 1956
Morocco gets its independence from France. March the 2nd, 1956 is a date almost forgotten in Morocco, yet it officially commemorates the day Morocco gained…
6 November 1956
Dwight Eisenhower is reelected as a President of the United States. The United States presidential election of 1956 was the 43rd quadrennial presidential election, held…
15 October 1956
The first modern computer language, Fortran, is first shared with the coding community. Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community…
24 May 1956
The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland. Inspired by the Italian Sanremo Festival, the idea to organise a pan-European musicial competition was…