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By January 2, Youderian had arrived and Fleming had confirmed his involvement, so the five met in Arajuno to prepare to leave the following day. After minor mechanical trouble with the plane, Saint and McCully took off at 8:02 a.m. on January 3 and successfully landed on the sandy beach along the Curaray River. Saint then flew Elliot and ...
Christianity. Church. Plymouth Brethren [1] Philip James Elliot (October 8, 1927 – January 8, 1956) was an American Christian missionary and one of five people killed during Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador.
Nate Saint. Nathanael Saint (30 August 1923 – 8 January 1956) was an evangelical Christian missionary pilot who, along with four others, was killed in Ecuador while attempting to evangelize the Huaorani people through efforts known as Operation Auca.
October 8 – Baseball pitcher Don Larsen of the New York Yankees throws the only perfect game in World Series history in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Yogi Berra catches the game. Dale Mitchell is the final out. The New York Yankees win the series. Larsen is named series MVP.
Doris Day performing the song in the 1956 film The Man Who Knew Too Much. " Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) " [a] is a song written by the team of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans that was first published in 1955. [4] Doris Day introduced it in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), [5] singing it as a cue to their ...
January 8 is the eighth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 357 days remain until the end of the year (358 in leap years). ... 1956 – Operation Auca: ...
The Day of the Dead (Spanish: el Día de Muertos or el Día de los Muertos) [ 2 ][ 3 ] is a holiday traditionally celebrated on November 1 and 2, though other days, such as October 31 or November 6, may be included depending on the locality. [ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ] The multi-day holiday involves family and friends gathering to pay respects and remember ...
—J. W. Milam, Look magazine, 1956 In an interview with William Bradford Huie that was published in Look magazine in 1956, Bryant and Milam said that they intended to beat Till and throw him off an embankment into the river to frighten him. They told Huie that while they were beating Till, he called them bastards, declared he was as good as they and said that he had sexual encounters with ...