The temperature on June 19, 1956 was between 7.1 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 28 » Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.
April 5 » In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Ceylon.
August 6 » After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
September 16 » TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
October 19 » 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.
November 7 » Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
Day of death June 21, 1956
The temperature on June 21, 1956 was between 8.3 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
August 27 » The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
October 17 » Bobby Fischer defeats Donald Byrne in the chess Game of the Century.
October 21 » The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya is defeated.
November 5 » Suez Crisis: British and French paratroopers land in Egypt after a week-long bombing campaign.
November 12 » Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
November 13 » The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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