June 30, 1956: Two commercial airplanes, a TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7, colliding over the Grand Canyon. All 128 people on board both flights perished.
President Tito of Yugoslavia begins a three-week state visit to the Soviet Union, reinforcing a thaw in relations between the two countries after the death of Stalin.[3]
British Railways, the UK's national rail service provider, abolishes second class accommodation (by now surviving only on Southern Region boat trains) on its trains and "Third" class is redesignated "Second" class.[4]
In Browder v. Gayle, a United States civil lawsuit resulting from the Montgomery bus boycott, the District Court rules that "the enforced segregation of black and white passengers on motor buses operating in the City of Montgomery [Alabama] violates the Constitution and laws of the United States".[7]
Elvis Presley appears on The Milton Berle Show on US television, singing "Hound Dog". It is the first time Presley has appeared on screen without a guitar, and the resulting performance attracts widespread criticism because of his "suggestive" movements.[8]
Born:Kenny G, US saxophonist, in Seattle, Washington
Singapore's Chief Minister David Marshall resigns after failing to negotiate full self-government for the colony at talks in London, UK. He is replaced two days later by Lim Yew Hock.[9]
A tropical storm makes landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana, United States. By the time it dissipates, four people have been killed and damage is estimated at $50,000.[24]
Interpol becomes the common name of the International Criminal Police Commission.[25]
Linea Aeropostal Venezolana Flight 253, a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation travelling from New York to Caracas, catches fire while dumping fuel in order to return to Idlewild Airport after experiencing engine trouble. It crashes into the sea, killing all 74 people aboard; it was, to that date, the world's worst disaster involving a scheduled commercial flight.[34]
US dramatist Arthur Miller is called before the House Un-American Activities Committee of the United States House of Representatives, but declines to name suspected Communists, resulting in his conviction for contempt of court.[38]
Born:Catherine Samba-Panza, president of the Central African Republic from 2014 to 2016, in Fort Lamy, French Equatorial Africa (now N'Djamena, Chad)
Died:Clifford Brown, 25, US jazz trumpeter and Richie Powell, 24, US jazz pianist, in a car accident that also killed Powell's 19-year-old wife Nancy[48]
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^Browder v. Gayle, District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division, June 19, 1956, retrieved October 29, 2005.
^The Blue Moon Boys: The Story of Elvis Presley's Band. Ken Burke and Dan Griffin. 2006. Chicago Review Press. page 52. ISBN1-55652-614-8
^Ng, Tze Lin Tania, "Rendel Commission", Singapore Infopedia. National Library Board Singapore, 2009.
^Pears, Tim (5 June 2005). "When he was king". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 22 June 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
^Libby Horner and Gillian Naylor eds. (2007) Frank Brangwyn 1867–1956, Leeds Museums and Galleries, Groeningemuseum/Arents House. p. 27. ISBN0901981737
^Martin Smith (1991). Burma – Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity. London and New Jersey: Zed Books. pp. 54, 57, 163, 176, 178, 186.
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"Air Crash in Nigeria Argonaut With 45 on Board, Many Casualties, Craft Bound For London". News. The Times. No. 53566. London. 25 June 1956. col A, p. 8.
^(in Polish) Waldemar Lewandowski, Poznańska bitwa pancerna Gazeta Wyborcza, 29 June 2006. Last accessed on 10 August 2007
^Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN978-0-8108-4244-1. p249
