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The big explosion in the Thirty-fifth Street Pier fire in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon seemed just around the corner to thousands of persons as much as two miles away. They looked and saw a column of ...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 3--Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold ordered the United Nations Emergency Force today to be ready to take over from British and French troops in the Port Said area of Egypt "by the middle of December."
E C James, Laundry Workers Internatl Union sec-treas, suspended indefinitely by union for alleged complicity in embezzlement of $900,000 in welfare funds; July '55 probe by Sen (Douglas) subcom recalled; union atty says union has stopped paying fees or commissions on ins protection for its members; says labor-mgt com has recovered $125,000 of fund money allegedly drained off by ins broker L B Saperstein; says James and Saperstein face suit if they do not return rest of funds; San Francisco Local 26 sues to recover $1.6 million allegedly diverted by James
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Hungary again refuses to admit UN observers, note to Hammarskjold; will welcome his visit to Budapest 'at a later date'; Western spokesmen see delaying tactic; Amb Lodge calls Hungarian response 'unsatisfactory'; he and others urge new resolution setting deadline for Hungarian consent to admit observers and recommending observers be sent to other countries; UN resolution now sponsored by 14 states; list; USSR and Indian sources see Hungarian reply as acceptance 'in principle'; Kuznetsov (USSR) again denies Hungarians have been deported; E Christiansen (Denmark) urges hearing for Kethly
1956Nia Griffith, Welsh educator and politician, former Shadow Secretary of State for Wales[†]
Dame Nia Rhiannon Griffith is a Welsh politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Llanelli since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities since 2024.
1956Bernard King, American basketball player and sportscaster[†]
Bernard King is an American former professional basketball player at the small forward position in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 14 seasons with the New Jersey Nets, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, and Washington Bullets. King is a four-time NBA All-Star, four-time All-NBA selection and led the NBA in scoring in the 1984–85 season. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 8, 2013. His younger brother, Albert, also played in the NBA during his career.
1956The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time.[†]
"Million Dollar Quartet" is a recording of an impromptu jam session involving Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash made on December 4, 1956 at the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. An article about the session was published in the Memphis Press-Scimitar under the title "Million Dollar Quartet". The recording was first released in Europe in 1981 as The Million Dollar Quartet with 17 tracks. A few years later more tracks were discovered and released as The Complete Million Dollar Session. In 1990, the recordings were released in the United States as Elvis Presley: The Million Dollar Quartet. This session is considered a seminal moment in rock and roll.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]