TV show host Marty Whelan

Events in 1956 and 7-6

Events in the world in the birth year of Marty Whelan

• Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of USSR Communist Party, denounces Stalin's excesses (Feb. 24).
• Morocco gains independence from France (March 1) and Spain (April 7).
• Workers' uprising against Communist rule in Poland is crushed (June 28-30).
• Egypt takes control of Suez Canal (July 26). Israel launches attack on Egypt's Sinai peninsula and drives toward Suez Canal (Oct. 29). British and French invade Egypt at Port Said (Nov. 5). Cease-fire forced by US pressure stops British, French, and Israeli advance (Nov. 6). Background: Arab-Israeli Wars
• Soviet troops and tanks crush anti-Communist uprisings in Hungary (November).

Birthday Marty Whelan (7-6) in history

• Day 7-6 year 1494: Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, a treaty dividing the "New World" between the two countries.
• Day 7-6 year 1654: "Sun King" Louis XIV ascended the throne of France.
• Day 7-6 year 1776: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing the Declaration of Independence.
• Day 7-6 year 1892: Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision.
• Day 7-6 year 1929: Vatican City became a sovereign state.
• Day 7-6 year 1948: President Eduard Beneš of Czechoslovakia resigned and the Communist takeover of the country was completed.
• Day 7-6 year 1967: Dorothy Parker, American short story writer, poet, and critic, died.
• Day 7-6 year 2003: Rev. V. Gene Robinson was elected the first openly gay bishop by New Hampshire Episcopalians.