March 1956 was the third month of that leap year. The month which began on a Thursday and ended after 31 days on a Saturday
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The following events occurred in March 1956:
- Morocco reaches agreement with France, ending the protectorate, to become the independent "Kingdom of Morocco".[5]
- While rehearsing for a coming air show, four Canadair Sabre fighter planes of the Sky Lancers aerobatics team of No. 4 Wing, Royal Canadian Air Force, based in West Germany, crash in the Upper Rhine Valley southwest of Strasbourg, France, while performing a loop in formation; all four pilots are killed, and RCAF aerobatic flying stops.[6][7]
- Born: Eduardo Rodríguez, Bolivian politician, President 2005–06, in Cochabamba[8]
- Died: Fred Merkle, 67, American baseball player whose failure to touch second base on what should have been a game-winning hit in a September 1908 game against the Chicago Cubs cost the New York Giants the National League pennant that year.
- West Germany's Bundestag approves 14 constitutional amendments which allow for rearmament and civilian control over the armed forces, re-introducing conscription.[14]
- A Fairey Delta 2 research aircraft, developed by the Fairey Aviation Company, breaks the World Air Speed Record, achieving a speed of 1,132 mph (1,822 km/h) as 300 mph (480 km/h) over the previous record. It becomes the first aircraft to exceed 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h) in level flight, with permission, but no active support, from the British government.[19]
- A United States Air Force Boeing B-47 Stratojet and its 3-man crew disappear over the Mediterranean Sea. The wreckage has to date not been located.[20]
- The Belgian ship MV Prince de Liege catches fire off the coast of Spain and is abandoned by its crew. The ship is towed by a Spanish naval tug then by the Swedish salvage ship Herakles to Gibraltar.[21]
- In the early hours of the morning, US singer Carl Perkins is injured in a car accident near Wilmington, Delaware, on his way to New York City to make an appearance on the Perry Como Show. Perkins suffers three fractured vertebrae in his neck, severe concussion, a broken collar bone, and multiple lacerations; he remains unconscious for an entire day.[40]
- The United States Internal Revenue Service raids the offices of the Communist newspaper The Daily Worker in New York and other locations, for non-payment of taxes. The editor claims that the paper lost $200,000 in the previous year, therefore it owes no taxes.[46]
- The UK cargo ship Changsha runs aground at Tokyo, Japan; it was later successfully refloated.[47]
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"French Trawler Wrecked On Cornish Coast". The Times. No. 53480. London. 15 March 1956. col A-E, p. 20.
"News in Brief", The Times, 24 February 1956
Suskin, Steven. "'My Fair Lady', 1956, 1976, and 1981"Show tunes: the songs, shows, and careers of Broadway's major composers (2010, 4ed.), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-531407-7, p. 224 "Q&A: Polonium-210". Chemistry World. Royal Society of Chemistry. 27 November 2006. Retrieved 2008-09-04. "Blizzard Havoc On U.S. Coast". The Times. No. 53483. London. 19 March 1956. col D, p. 10.
Kenneth J. Perkins, A History of Modern Tunisia (Cambridge University 2004) at 125-129, 131-133.
"Telegrams in Brief". The Times. No. 53501. London. 10 March 1956. col C, p. 9.