29 events found for 1956
Marcinelle mining disaster in Belgium. 262 coal miners, including a substantial number of Italian migrant workers,…
The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the…
Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
A tropical storm originating in the eastern Pacific Ocean passes into the Gulf of Mexico and is upgraded and named…
TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes out of…