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January 3, 1956
On January 3, 1956, a fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower. César, Anne Glover, Beatrice Ask would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · January 3, 1956
A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
The Eiffel Tower is a lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889.
Around 1956
The year in brief
1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1956th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 956th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1950s decade.
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On January 3, 1956
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1956 A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower. Tower in Paris, France
The Eiffel Tower is a lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889.
Elsewhere that year
Other moments from 1956
- April 19 Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
- April 26 SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
- April 3 Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
- April 30 Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
- April 5 Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
- April 7 Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco.
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