What Happened on February 29, 1956

Historical Events

Islamic Republic forms in Pakistan

Cleveland Indians Sold for $4M

MLB's Cleveland Indians franchise is sold for nearly $4m; former player and the team’s general manager Hank Greenberg is part of the new ownership group

Eisenhower Seeks 2nd Term

US President Eisenhower announces he will seek a 2nd term

34th US President and WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Events in 1956

Famous Birthdays

(Jonathan) "Jono" Coleman, British-Australian television and radio, writer, and comedian, born in Hackney, England (d. 2021)
Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer whose life portrayed in film "Monsters", born in Troy, Michigan (d. 2002)
J. Randy Taraborrelli, American celebrity journalist
Jonathan Coleman, Anglo-Australian entertainer

Born in 1956