February 1956

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The following events occurred in February 1956:

February 1, 1956 (Wednesday)

February 2, 1956 (Thursday)

February 3, 1956 (Friday)

February 4, 1956 (Saturday)

February 5, 1956 (Sunday)

February 6, 1956 (Monday)

February 7, 1956 (Tuesday)

February 8, 1956 (Wednesday)

February 9, 1956 (Thursday)

February 10, 1956 (Friday)

  • The Brazilian cargo ship Loide-Honduras runs aground on Long Sand Bank, in the Thames Estuary, UK. A British ship, ST Rumania, is sent to assist but runs aground on the same sandbank and sinks.
  • The British ship MV Conlea founders 15 nautical miles (28 km) off La Corbière, Jersey.[10]
  • In the first stage of an Australian government reshuffle, Howard Beale is replaced as Minister for Supply and Minister for Defence Production by Athol Townley. Shortly afterwards, Beale is appointed Australian Ambassador to the United States of America.[11]
  • Died: Wilbert Coffin, 40, Canadian prospector and convicted murderer, executed after seven reprieves.[12]

February 11, 1956 (Saturday)

February 12, 1956 (Sunday)

February 13, 1956 (Monday)

February 14, 1956 (Tuesday)

February 15, 1956 (Wednesday)

  • Irish Senator Owen Sheehy-Skeffington introduces a parliamentary motion calling for the prohibition of all corporal punishment for girls in Irish national schools.[19]

February 16, 1956 (Thursday)

February 17, 1956 (Friday)

February 18, 1956 (Saturday)

February 19, 1956 (Sunday)

  • British collier ship Corchester collides with SS City of Sydney near the Haisborough Light Vessel, off the coast of Norfolk, UK, and sinks; eight of her 21 crew lose their lives.[24]

February 20, 1956 (Monday)

  • An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), strikes the Eskişehir region of Turkey, causing four deaths.[25]
  • Tunku Abdul Rahman, Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya announces in Malacca Town that Malaya will become independent on 31 August 1957.

February 21, 1956 (Tuesday)

February 22, 1956 (Wednesday)

February 23, 1956 (Thursday)

February 24, 1956 (Friday)

February 25, 1956 (Saturday)

February 26, 1956 (Sunday)

February 27, 1956 (Monday)

February 28, 1956 (Tuesday)

February 29, 1956 (Wednesday)

References

  1. ^ "Shubert Theater". CAPA New Haven. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-05-11. Retrieved 2008-10-31.
  2. ^ "Ship's Crew Rescued". The Times (53446). London. 4 February 1956. col D, p. 5.
  3. ^ "41 Seamen Saved By Helicopters". The Times (53446). London. 4 February 1956. col C-D, p. 6.
  4. ^ "Statistics / Statsguru / S Ramadhin / Test matches". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  5. ^ Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (1956), pp. 691–692
  6. ^ Free Cinema manifesto, February, as quoted in Free Cinema, 2006, BFI DVD booklet, [unpaginated, p9]
  7. ^ "Ejections and Bale Outs 1956". ejection-history.org.uk. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 23 August 2009.
  8. ^ "Hunter Aircraft (Crashes)". Hansard. 9 February 1956. Retrieved 23 August 2009.
  9. ^ Jacobs, Seth Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Diem Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950-1963 New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing, 2006, p. 97
  10. ^ "MV Conlea (+1956)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  11. ^ Beale, Howard (1977). This inch of time : memoirs of politics and diplomacy. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press. p. 233. ISBN 0-522-84127-9.
  12. ^ 1958 :[Final Edition 57]. (1999, December 27). Kingston Whig-Standard, p. 61. Retrieved February 15, 2008 from Canadian Newsstand Core database. (Document ID: 294746281)
  13. ^ "Cambridge spies' surface in Moscow". On This Day. BBC. 11 February 1956. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
  14. ^ 100 Years of Football 1906-2006, Elisha Shohat (Israel), 2006
  15. ^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1302 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  16. ^ Exhibition of works of Soviet artists of 1917-1956. Catalogue. - Moscow: State Tretyakov Gallery, 1956.
  17. ^ Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005. - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007.
  18. ^ Accidente de Queronque Archived 2010-01-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
  19. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2017-04-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  20. ^ "Ship Sinks After Collision". The Times (53457). London. 15 February 1956. col G, p. 2.
  21. ^ "50 Killed In Malta Crash." Times [London, England] 20 Feb. 1956: 6. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 20 Jan. 2016.
  22. ^ "M7.3 – Izu Islands, Japan region". United States Geological Survey. February 18, 1956. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  23. ^ "Snooker". The Glasgow Herald. 20 February 1956. p. 4.
  24. ^ "Eight Lost As Ship Sinks". The Times (53459). London. 20 February 1956. col G, p. 8.
  25. ^ National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS), Significant Earthquake Database, National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K
  26. ^ "Mills & Work Places". Vale and Dale Keighley. 2007. Archived from the original on 2006-05-10. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
  27. ^ "Hydrocarbon nationalization: New gains for workers despite oil crisis". Algeria Press Service. 23 February 2016. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  28. ^ Maclay, Kathleen (March 19, 2009). "Judith Butler wins Mellon Award". UC Berkeley News. Media Relations. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
  29. ^ Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary, Communist Party of the Soviet Union (February 24–25, 1956). "On the Personality Cult and its Consequences". Special report at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Retrieved 2006-08-27.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  30. ^ Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year. London; New York: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2.
  31. ^ Elections in Somalia African Elections Database
  32. ^ "Ship Sunk In Scheldt Collision". The Times (53468). London. 1 March 1956. col D, p. 7.
  33. ^ "Aileen Carol Wuornos". The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney. Archived from the original on September 27, 2008. Retrieved September 26, 2008.

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