April 1956 tornado outbreak: At the end of an outbreak that produced 47 tornadoes, including an
F5 tornado that devastated the
Hudsonville and
Standale, Michigan, areas of the United States, 18 people are left dead and 340 injured, and the historic lighthouse at Saugatuck destroyed.[4]
Following the country's independence from France, Spain discontinues the
Spanish protectorate in Morocco, ceding its territory to the newly established kingdom.
A
Nat King Cole concert in
Birmingham, Alabama, United States, is interrupted by three
Ku Klux Klan members, who push Cole from his piano stool; all are later tried and convicted, but Cole would never again perform in his home state.[12]
The
1956 World Table Tennis Championships comes to an end in Tokyo, Japan. The host country finishes with four of the seven available gold medals, Romania with two, and the United States with one.[13]
Ampex demonstrates
videotape the
VR-1000, the first of its line of
2 inch Quadruplex videotape recorders at the 1956 NARTB (now
NAB) convention in Chicago, United States.[15] Later the same year, the first
television network programme to use the new Ampex Quadruplex recording system will be shown on
CBS.
Born:Barbara Bonney, US soprano, in Montclair, New Jersey
British
MI6diverLionel "Buster" Crabb is sent into
Portsmouth harbour to investigate the visiting
Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze. After diving in, he is never seen again. The UK government declines to give any further information.[25]
The report of the Board of Inquiry into the
1956 Hawker Hunter multiple aircraft accident reports that the primary cause of the accident was a sudden deterioration in the weather, but that it had been an error of judgement to divert the aircraft on the assumption that they could perform a visual landing.[29]
^Morris, Benny (1993) Israel's Border Wars, 1949 - 1956. Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War. Oxford University Press,
ISBN0-19-827850-0. Page 371.
^Jacobs, Seth (2006). Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
ISBN0-7425-4447-8. P 84
^Mullan (1996). Boxing: The Definitive Illustrated Guide to World Boxing. London, England: Carlton Books. p. 81.
ISBN0-7858-0641-5.
^"Sinking Of Portuguese Ship". The Times. No. 53519. London. 1 May 1956. col F, p. 10.
^Silverstein, Josef (1956). "Politics, Parties and National Elections in Burma". Far Eastern Survey. 25 (12). Institute of Pacific Relations: 177–184.
doi:
10.2307/3024383.
JSTOR3024383.
^Logevall, Frederik Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam New York: Random House, 2012, p 650
^Smith, Douglas N.W. (July 2000). Canadian Rail Passenger Review Number 3. Trackside Canada.
ISBN0-9697415-8-8.
^"DFB-Pokal 1955-56" (in German). fussballdaten.de. 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
^"1956 NBA Draft". basketball-reference.com. Retrieved October 28, 2009.
April 1956 tornado outbreak: At the end of an outbreak that produced 47 tornadoes, including an
F5 tornado that devastated the
Hudsonville and
Standale, Michigan, areas of the United States, 18 people are left dead and 340 injured, and the historic lighthouse at Saugatuck destroyed.[4]
Following the country's independence from France, Spain discontinues the
Spanish protectorate in Morocco, ceding its territory to the newly established kingdom.
A
Nat King Cole concert in
Birmingham, Alabama, United States, is interrupted by three
Ku Klux Klan members, who push Cole from his piano stool; all are later tried and convicted, but Cole would never again perform in his home state.[12]
The
1956 World Table Tennis Championships comes to an end in Tokyo, Japan. The host country finishes with four of the seven available gold medals, Romania with two, and the United States with one.[13]
Ampex demonstrates
videotape the
VR-1000, the first of its line of
2 inch Quadruplex videotape recorders at the 1956 NARTB (now
NAB) convention in Chicago, United States.[15] Later the same year, the first
television network programme to use the new Ampex Quadruplex recording system will be shown on
CBS.
Born:Barbara Bonney, US soprano, in Montclair, New Jersey
British
MI6diverLionel "Buster" Crabb is sent into
Portsmouth harbour to investigate the visiting
Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze. After diving in, he is never seen again. The UK government declines to give any further information.[25]
The report of the Board of Inquiry into the
1956 Hawker Hunter multiple aircraft accident reports that the primary cause of the accident was a sudden deterioration in the weather, but that it had been an error of judgement to divert the aircraft on the assumption that they could perform a visual landing.[29]
^Morris, Benny (1993) Israel's Border Wars, 1949 - 1956. Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War. Oxford University Press,
ISBN0-19-827850-0. Page 371.
^Jacobs, Seth (2006). Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
ISBN0-7425-4447-8. P 84
^Mullan (1996). Boxing: The Definitive Illustrated Guide to World Boxing. London, England: Carlton Books. p. 81.
ISBN0-7858-0641-5.
^"Sinking Of Portuguese Ship". The Times. No. 53519. London. 1 May 1956. col F, p. 10.
^Silverstein, Josef (1956). "Politics, Parties and National Elections in Burma". Far Eastern Survey. 25 (12). Institute of Pacific Relations: 177–184.
doi:
10.2307/3024383.
JSTOR3024383.
^Logevall, Frederik Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam New York: Random House, 2012, p 650
^Smith, Douglas N.W. (July 2000). Canadian Rail Passenger Review Number 3. Trackside Canada.
ISBN0-9697415-8-8.
^"DFB-Pokal 1955-56" (in German). fussballdaten.de. 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
^"1956 NBA Draft". basketball-reference.com. Retrieved October 28, 2009.