The temperature on October 17, 1956 was between 10.7 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.
January 4 » The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.
June 30 » A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.
July 26 » Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, sparking international condemnation.
October 15 » FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
December 31 » The Romanian Television network begins its first broadcast in Bucharest.
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