The temperature on May 22, 1956 was between 5.9 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (87%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 26 » SSIdeal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
April 30 » Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
July 13 » The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
September 13 » The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
September 25 » TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
November 22 » The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in Melbourne, Australia.
Day of death July 6, 1956
The temperature on July 6, 1956 was between 13.9 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 20 » The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.
September 16 » TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
October 26 » Hungarian Revolution: In the towns of Mosonmagyaróvár and Esztergom, Hungarian secret police forces massacre civilians. As rebel strongholds in Budapest hold, fighting spreads throughout the country.
October 30 » Hungarian Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters.
November 1 » The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act; Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu from Kerala.
November 2 » Hungarian Revolution: Imre Nagy requests UN aid for Hungary. Nikita Khrushchev meets with leaders of other Communist countries to seek their advice on the situation in Hungary, selecting János Kádár as the country's next leader on the advice of Josip Broz Tito.
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