September 1956

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September 27, 1956: Wreckage of Bell X-2 aircraft after test pilot Milburn G. Apt's fatal crash

September 1956 was the ninth month of that leap year. The month which began on a Saturday and ended after 30 days on a Sunday

The following events occurred in September 1956:

September 1, 1956 (Saturday)

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September 2, 1956 (Sunday)

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September 3, 1956 (Monday)

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  • U.S. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson marches with 75,000 citizens in Detroit's annual Labor Day parade and addresses the crowd, outlining his "New America" plan for education and health.[2]
  • Suez Crisis: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower writes to UK Prime Minister Anthony Eden, mentioning the possibility of a threat of armed response. Two days later the contents of the letter are leaked, possibly by Walter Monckton, resulting in Eisenhower calling a press conference.[3]

September 4, 1956 (Tuesday)

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September 5, 1956 (Wednesday)

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September 6, 1956 (Thursday)

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September 7, 1956 (Friday)

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  • Iven C. Kincheloe flies the Bell X-2 to a peak altitude of 126,200 ft (38,466 m), the first time a pilot has exceeded 100,000 ft (30,500 m).
  • Liberian cargo ship Seagate runs aground on the Sonora Reef, off the coast of Washington, United States, and the vessel breaks in two.[8]
  • Born: Michael Feinstein, American singer and pianist, in Columbus, Ohio

September 8, 1956 (Saturday)

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September 9, 1956 (Sunday)

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September 10, 1956 (Monday)

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September 11, 1956 (Tuesday)

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September 12, 1956 (Wednesday)

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September 13, 1956 (Thursday)

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September 14, 1956 (Friday)

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September 15, 1956 (Saturday)

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September 16, 1956 (Sunday)

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September 17, 1956 (Monday)

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  • A Lockheed U-2A, delivered to the CIA on 13 January 1956, crashes while taking off from Wiesbaden Air Base, Germany, when the aircraft stalls at 35,000 feet (11,000 m); Agency pilot Howard Carey is killed.[25]
  • An F1 tornado touches down near East Donegal Township, Pennsylvania, damaging small buildings, corn and tobacco and tearing down trees. A 4-year-old on Manheim R1 in East Petersburg is running to his trailer when aluminum sheeting is torn off and strikes the child, rupturing his spleen. His older brother is injured by another piece of metal. The Snavely and Sons roof in Landisville is ripped to pieces. A piece of the roof is wrapped around a telephone pole 50 yards (46 m) away. A Hess farm 2 miles (3.2 km) north-east of Landisville is damaged. A person in the barn of the Hess Farm reports that the tornado sounded like an express train. The farm has a chicken house blown off, and the porch crushed by a tree. A tree falls on an unoccupied cottage at the Landisville Campmeeting Grounds. Near Mount Joy, The Hostetter Farm has a filled tobacco shed lifted from its foundation and dumped 15 feet (4.6 m) away. A shed is blown over at the Lindenuth farm on Donegal Springs Road. Radio and TV aerials are twisted like bales of wire. Basketball hoops on metal poles at the Mount Joy Playground are bent around so they face in the opposite direction. A tree falls onto a truck on Route 230. It is occupied, but the man inside is not injured. Tombstones are blown over in the Mount Joy cemetery.[26]
  • A Boeing B-52B Stratofortress of the United States Air Force 93d Bomb Wing crashes after an in-flight fire while returning to Castle AFB, California, having lost a wing. It lands near Highway 99, 9 miles (14 km) SE of Madera, California, resulting in the deaths of five crew members, the other two having bailed out safely.[27]
  • Born: Almazbek Atambayev, Kyrgyzstani politician, 3-Time Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan and 4th President of Kyrgyzstan, in Arashan, Kirghiz SSR

September 18, 1956 (Tuesday)

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September 19, 1956 (Wednesday)

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September 20, 1956 (Thursday)

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September 21, 1956 (Friday)

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September 22, 1956 (Saturday)

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September 23, 1956 (Sunday)

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September 24, 1956 (Monday)

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September 25, 1956 (Tuesday)

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September 26, 1956 (Wednesday)

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September 27, 1956 (Thursday)

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September 28, 1956 (Friday)

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September 29, 1956 (Saturday)

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September 30, 1956 (Sunday)

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References

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  2. ^ "Adlai Hits Job, Farm, Inflation Issues". Detroit Free Press. September 4, 1956. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Jonathan Pearson (5 November 2002). Sir Anthony Eden and the Suez Crisis: Reluctant Gamble. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 200–. ISBN 978-0-230-51259-7.
  4. ^ Television i Sverige - Ägande och struktur, Ministry of Culture, 1996, p. 8
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  10. ^ La Liga 1956/1957
  11. ^ France and UK considered 1950s 'merger', The Guardian
  12. ^ Keith Kyle, Suez: Britain's End of Empire in the Middle East. (I.B. Tauris, 2003), pp. 225–226.
  13. ^ Guide to US Elections, Fifth Edition, Volume II. CQ Press. 2005. pp. 1497–1499. ISBN 978-1-56802-981-8.
  14. ^ Typhoon Emma Report at the United States Army Center of Military History
  15. ^ Cunningham, Ross (September 12, 1956). "Demos Make Heavy Gains in State Vote". The Seattle Times. p. 1.
  16. ^ Details about the Pinters' marriage and their family life are provided by Michael Billington The Life and Work of Harold Pinter (London: Faber and Faber, 1996); rev. ed. Harold Pinter (London: Faber and Faber, 2007). (Pinter's official authorized biography.)
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  21. ^ "First test broadcast by TCN". The Daily Telegraph, 1956-14-07. Page 1.
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  24. ^ "Crew Of Greek Ship Rescued". The Times. No. 53639. London. 17 September 1956. col B, p. 7.
  25. ^ Pocock, Chris (2005). 50 Years of the U-2: The Complete Illustrated History of the 'Dragon Lady'. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. p. 406. ISBN 978-0-7643-2346-1. LCCN 2005927577.
  26. ^ "'Baby' Tornado Rips County, Put Loss at $100,000". Lancaster New Era. Retrieved 30 September 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  27. ^ Willis, David (September–October 2005). "Boeing's Timeless Deterrent – B-52 Stratofortress – From Conception to Hanoi, Part One". Air Enthusiast. No. 119. Stamford, Lincs, UK. p. 59.
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  30. ^ Zimnuich, Fran (2007). Shortened Seasons: The Untimely Deaths of Major League Baseball's Stars and Journeymen. USA: Taylor Trade Publishing. p. 240. ISBN 9781589793637.
  31. ^ Sanchez, Edwin. "Alemán cometió enorme agravio". El Nuevo Diario (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2007-02-06. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
  32. ^ Canadian Hurricane Center. Storms of 1956. Archived 2006-05-13 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
  33. ^ Israel Rejects Jordan's Claim Madman Killed 3, Meriden Journal, 24 September 1956, accessed 16 August 2016 [1]
  34. ^ "All-Ireland win 1956". Ask About Ireland website. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
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  37. ^ "Polling Method In Kenya: Appeal For Reform" The Times, 29 September 1956, p5, Issue 53649
  38. ^ Chase's calendar of events 2009. McGraw Hill Professional. 2009. ISBN 9780071599566.
  39. ^ Machat, Mike (January 2005). "Color Schemes of the Bell X-2". Airpower. Vol. 35, no. 1. p. 37.
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  42. ^ Taylor, P. "We will see Games footy", The Argus, (Saturday, 29 September 1956), p.20
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