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Pres tells White House Easter egg-rollers he will see them next yr
US Sup Ct, 6-3, upholds Penna Sup Ct decision that Penna had no power to convict Nelson of sedition under State law; Nelson free under bond
ALBANY, April 2--The state took in $32,900,000 more than it spent in the 1955-56 fiscal year, Controller Arthur Levitt said today. The fiscal year ended Saturday.
SEATTLE, Wash., April 2--A Northwest Airlines Stratocruiser carrying thirty-eight persons crashed into Puget Sound today shortly after taking off for New York. Rescue planes and boats saved thirty-three persons.
his fiscal '57 budget foresees no tax changes; links auto-use tax continuation to NYS; compares NYC taxes with other cities
1956Kalle Kulbok, Estonian politician[†]
Kalle Kulbok is an Estonian politician.
1956Boris Miljković, Serbian director and producer[†]
Boris Miljković is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, creative director in advertising and writer.
1956Miguel Bosé, Spanish musician and actor[†]
Miguel Bosé is a Spanish-Italian pop singer and actor.
1956Ray Combs, American game show host (died 1996)[†]
Raymond Neil Combs Jr. was an American stand-up comedian, actor and game show host. He began his professional career in the late 1970s. His popularity on the stand-up circuit led to him being signed as the second host of the game show Family Feud in its second run and first revival. The show aired on CBS from 1988 to 1993 and was in syndication from 1988 to 1994. From 1995 to 1996, Combs hosted another game show, Family Challenge.
1956Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.[†]
From April 2–3, 1956, a large, deadly tornado outbreak affected the Great Plains, parts of the South, and the upper Midwest in the contiguous United States, especially the Great Lakes region. The outbreak produced at least 55 tornadoes, including an F5 that devastated the Grand Rapids metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Michigan on April 3. It was one of three tornadoes to move across southwest Lower Michigan on that day. A fourth tornado struck north of the Manistee area, in the northern part of the peninsula. The Hudsonville–Standale tornado killed 18 and injured 333. It remains the fourth deadliest tornado on record in Michigan and is the most recent F5 on record there. Several other deadly, intense, long-tracked tornadoes also occurred during the outbreak. In addition to the fatalities in Kansas, Oklahoma, Michigan and Berlin, Wisconsin, three people were killed in Tennessee, one person in Kentucky and two more people in Wisconsin. In total, 39 were killed during the entire event.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]