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]
On a visit to the UK at the height of the Suez crisis, France's Prime Minister Guy Mollet proposes a merger of France and the United Kingdom. Britain's Prime MinisterAnthony Eden rejects the idea.[11]
Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, Permanent Under-Secretary at the UK's Foreign Office, writes to the British Ambassador in Egypt, warning that allowing President Gamal Abdel Nasser to consolidate his position will cause the flow of Middle Eastern oil to the UK to dry up, ruining the British economy.[12]
Typhoon Emma dissipates, after causing extensive damage and loss of life in Japanese and South Korean territory. The number of deaths was estimated at 77, and estimated damage over $8 million.[14]
The UK's commercial TV station, ITV, begins broadcasting The Adventures of Sir Lancelot, starring William Russell. It would later be the first British TV series to be produced in colour; this was done to meet the needs of US audiences, and the series was subsequently aired on NBC.[19]
Television broadcasting in Australia begins, with the launch of the country's first TV station TCN-9, transmitting in the Sydney area after two months of tests.[21]
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]
The Jupiter-C research and development vehicle, carrying a modified Redstone ballistic missile, is launched from Cape Canaveral by the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA). It carries an 86.5-lb (39.2 kg) payload (including a 30-lb (14 kg) dummy satellite) to an altitude of 680 mi (1,100 km), a speed of 16,000 mph (7 km/s), and a range of 3,300 mi (5,300 km)[29]
Died:Tom Gastall, 24, US baseball player, killed when the plane he is piloting crashes into Chesapeake Bay as a result of engine problems.[30]
A tropical storm in the Atlantic develops into Hurricane Flossy, which eventually makes landfall in Florida, United States.[32] Total damage caused by the hurricane in the United States is estimated at $24.8 million (1956 USD).
Ramat Rachel shooting attack: Soldiers of the Jordanian Legion fire on a group of Israeli archaeologists working inside Israeli territory near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. Four people are killed and 16 others injured. Jordan officially apologises and blames the incident on a single individual.[33]
The Bell X-2, piloted by Milburn G. Apt, 32, becomes the first manned aircraft to reach Mach 3. However, Apt experiences "inertia coupling", goes into a spin, fails to eject and is killed.[39]
Died:Gerald Finzi, 55, British composer ("severe brain inflammation")[40]
In the United States, Chicago White Sox pitcher Jim Derrington becomes the youngest pitcher in modern baseball history to start a game, at the age of 16 years and 10 months.[46]
^Ginsberg, Allen (1995). Miles, Barry (ed.). Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Editions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading, Legal Skirmishes, Precursor Texts & Bibliography. HarperPerennial. p. 155.
^Robinson, Andrew (2002). The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris. New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd. p. 151. ISBN0-500-51077-6.
^Cunningham, Ross (September 12, 1956). "Demos Make Heavy Gains in State Vote". The Seattle Times. p. 1.
^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.)
^Terrace, Vincent (2009). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2007 (Volume 1). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN978-0-7864-3305-6.
^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.
^Zimnuich, Fran (2007). Shortened Seasons: The Untimely Deaths of Major League Baseball's Stars and Journeymen. USA: Taylor Trade Publishing. p. 240. ISBN9781589793637.
^Guarnieri, M. (March 2014). "The Conquest of the Atlantic". IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine. 8 (1): 53–55/67. doi:10.1109/MIE.2014.2299492. S2CID41662509.(subscription required)
^"Polling Method In Kenya: Appeal For Reform" The Times, 29 September 1956, p5, Issue 53649
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