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H Bigart biog article; illus
in NYC; is 1st Irish Prime Min to view St Patrick's Day parade; comments; illus; some signs in parade demand partition end; Costello meets Cardinal Spellman, Gov Harriman
area from Va to Canada and W to Ohio hit; thousands stranded in stalled cars; deaths at 71; NYC fall 4.6 in, heaviest of season; rr and plane schedules disrupted; Sanitation Dept to increase snow removal crews; other conditions; Illus
French contribution cut to 2 understrength divs by Cabinet decision to send 2 divs to Algeria
1956Rick Martel, Canadian wrestler[†]
Richard Vigneault is a Canadian retired professional wrestler, trainer, and television presenter, better known by his ring name, "The Model" Rick Martel. He is best known for his appearances with the American Wrestling Association, the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling. Championships held by Martel over the course of his career include the AWA World Heavyweight Championship, WCW World Television Championship, and WWF World Tag Team Championship.
1956Deborah Jeane Palfrey, American madam (died 2008)[†]
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, dubbed the D. C. Madam by the news media, operated Pamela Martin and Associates, an escort agency in Washington, D.C. Although she maintained that the company's services were legal, she was convicted on April 15, 2008, of racketeering, using the mail for illegal purposes, and money laundering. Slightly over two weeks later, facing a prison sentence of five or six years, she was found hanged. Autopsy results and the final police investigative report concluded that her death was a suicide.
1956Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish skier[†]
Jan Ingemar Stenmark is a Swedish former World Cup alpine ski racer. He is regarded as a legendary skier and one of the most prominent Swedish athletes ever, having won several Olympic medals and world cups during his career. When he retired in 1989, he held the record for the greatest number of international race wins, a record that was only broken in 2023 by Mikaela Shiffrin and remains unbroken amongst men. He competed for Tärna IK Fjällvinden.
1956Louis Bromfield, American environmentalist and author (born 1896)[†]
Louis Bromfield was an American writer and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1927 for Early Autumn, founded the experimental Malabar Farm near Mansfield, Ohio, and played an important role in the early environmental movement.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]