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August 1956 was the eighth month of that leap year. The month which began on a Wednesday and ended on a Friday after 31 days

The following events occurred in August 1956:

August 1, 1956 (Wednesday)

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August 2, 1956 (Thursday)

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  • UK Opposition leader Hugh Gaitskell, says of the nationalisation of the Suez Canal by Egypt: "It is all very familiar. It is exactly the same that we encountered from Mussolini and Hitler in those years before the war."[2]
  • Died: Albert Woolson, 106, US centenarian, last surviving Union veteran of the American Civil War[3]

August 3, 1956 (Friday)

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August 4, 1956 (Saturday)

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August 5, 1956 (Sunday)

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August 6, 1956 (Monday)

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August 7, 1956 (Tuesday)

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  • US baseball player Ted Williams spits at a mocking fan during a game. He would be fined $5,000 for his conduct.[9]
  • Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, France's Defence Minister, obtains support from Israel for a joint attack on Suez.[10]
  • An explosion occurs in Cali, Colombia, caused by the explosion of seven ammunition trucks loaded with 1053 boxes of dynamite, parked in Cali overnight. The country's president, General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, blames the opposition. Death estimates range from 1,300 to 10,000, in a city that at the time had merely 120,000 inhabitants.[11]

August 8, 1956 (Wednesday)

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  • Fire breaks out at the Bois du Cazier mine in Marcinelle, Belgium. 262 miners are killed, workers of twelve different nationalities; more than half are Italian.[12]

August 9, 1956 (Thursday)

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August 10, 1956 (Friday)

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  • Born : Michel Vigné, French voice actor

August 11, 1956 (Saturday)

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August 12, 1956 (Sunday)

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August 13, 1956 (Monday)

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August 14, 1956 (Tuesday)

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  • The Dutch coaster Hondsrug sinks 10 nautical miles (19 km) north of Fyn, Denmark; five of the seven people on board are killed.[23]
  • Irish novelist Iris Murdoch marries English academic John Bayley at Oxford register office.[24]
  • Died: Bertolt Brecht, 58, German playwright (heart attack)[25]

August 15, 1956 (Wednesday)

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August 16, 1956 (Thursday)

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  • Representatives of the major countries that use the Suez Canal meet in London to discuss the future ownership and operation of the canal. Egypt does not attend the talks, which last until 23 August.[27]
  • Died: Bela Lugosi, 73, Hungarian actor best known for playing Dracula[28]

August 17, 1956 (Friday)

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August 18, 1956 (Saturday)

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  • A touring English cricket team, under the name "Free Foresters", begins a 2-day match against The Netherlands; it ends in a draw.[33]

August 19, 1956 (Sunday)

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August 20, 1956 (Monday)

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August 21, 1956 (Tuesday)

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August 22, 1956 (Wednesday)

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August 23, 1956 (Thursday)

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August 24, 1956 (Friday)

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August 25, 1956 (Saturday)

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August 26, 1956 (Sunday)

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August 27, 1956 (Monday)

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  • The "Clinton Twelve" (Jo Ann Allen, Bobby Cain, Theresser Caswell, Minnie Ann Dickey, Gail Ann Epps, Ronald Hayden, William Latham, Alvah J. McSwain, Maurice Soles, Robert Thacker, Regina Turner and Alfred Williams) attend classes at Clinton High School, Clinton, Tennessee, becoming the first African-American students to desegregate a state-supported public school in the Southeast United States.[48]
  • In Egypt, British diplomat John-McGlashan, businessman James Swinburn, and a Maltese citizen, James Zarb, are detained by the authorities and accused of spying.[49]

August 28, 1956 (Tuesday)

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August 29, 1956 (Wednesday)

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  • Born GG Allin, controversial American punk musician, in Lancaster, New Hampshire (died 1993)

August 30, 1956 (Thursday)

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August 31, 1956 (Friday)

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References

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  2. ^ Turner, Barry Suez 1956, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006, pp. 231–232.
  3. ^ "James A. Hard Obituary".
  4. ^ a b revisionist history: men's 100 WR. Track and Field News. November 1, 2013
  5. ^ Harmon, Jim; Donald F. Glut (1973). "12. The Westerns "Who Was That Masked Man!"". The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury. Routledge. p. 320. ISBN 978-0-7130-0097-9.
  6. ^ Födisch, Jörg Thomas; Völker, Bernhard; Behrndt, Michael (2008). Der große Preis von Deutschland. Alle Rennen seit 1926. Königswinter: HEEL Verlag. p. 75. ISBN 9783868520439.
  7. ^ Marx, Thomas G. (1976), "Technological Change and the Theory of the Firm: The American Locomotive Industry, 1920–1955", Business History Review (50.1): 5–18.
  8. ^ "The IoS weather lists (part 2)". Independent. 8 August 2009. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  9. ^ Montville, Leigh (2004). Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero. New York: Doubleday. p. 198. ISBN 0-385-50748-8.
  10. ^ Neff, Donald Warriors at Suez, pp. 295–296.
  11. ^ "LA EXPLOSIÓN DE CALI: AGOSTO 7 DE 1956". Revista Credencial (in Spanish). 2016-09-16. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  12. ^ "1956: Fire traps 262 miners". The History Channel. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  13. ^ "The 1956 Women's March, Pretoria, 9 August". South African History Online. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  14. ^ John-Paul Stonard (2007), ""Pop in the Age of Boom: Richard Hamilton's 'Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?'"" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-25., The Burlington Magazine, September 2007
  15. ^ Stein, Erwin. 1956. “Igor Strawinsky: Canticum Sacrum ad honorem Sancti Marci Nominis.” Tempo 40 (Summer): 3–5.
  16. ^ "Past droughts and floods". State Library of South Australia. Archived from the original on 30 August 2007. Retrieved 15 September 2007.
  17. ^ "1956 Murray River Floods". Discover Murray Mallee. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  18. ^ Varnedoe, Kirk and Karmel, Pepe, Jackson Pollock: Essays, Chronology, and Bibliography, Exhibition catalog, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, Chronology, p. 328, 1998, ISBN 0-87070-069-3
  19. ^ David Roth (2008-09-28). "Hurricane Betsy - August 11-13, 1956". Hydrometeorological Prediction Center. Retrieved 2011-10-15.
  20. ^ "The 1956 polio epidemic in Cork". History Ireland. 20 February 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  21. ^ Ridpath, I. The UFO Conspiracy, The Sunday Times, 19 March 1978
  22. ^ "Brenda Fisher". Solo Swims of Ontario Inc. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  23. ^ "Five Lost From Dutch Coaster". The Times. No. 53610. London. 15 August 1956. col B, p. 5.
  24. ^ Graeme Archer (2015-01-23). "The secrets of Iris Murdoch and John Bayley's unconventional marriage". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
  25. ^ "Britannica". Retrieved 24 May 2015.
  26. ^ "Lorraine Desmarais". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. 15 December 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  27. ^ "Compromise-Minded Conferees". Life. 27 August 1956. p. 43. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  28. ^ Rhodes, Gary Don (1997). Lugosi: His Life in Films, on Stage, and in the Hearts of Horror Lovers. McFarland. p. 36. ISBN 0786402571.
  29. ^ Democratic Party Platform of 1956 at The American Presidency Project
  30. ^ Eric D. Weitz, Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997
  31. ^ Logevall, p. 633; Doyle et al., p. 111
  32. ^ Cullen, Pamela V. (2006). A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams. London: Elliott & Thompson. ISBN 1-904027-19-9.
  33. ^ "Free Foresters in Netherlands, 1956". cricinfo. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  34. ^ "Crew Saved From Sinking Ship". The Times. No. 53614. London. 20 August 1956. col A, p. 3.
  35. ^ "Alaska Shipwrecks (A) – Alaska Shipwrecks". Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  36. ^ "Time Magazine Cover". DUKE ELLINGTON SOCIETY OF SWEDEN. 19 August 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  37. ^ Miles, Tina (9 June 2008). "Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall: Why I'm so proud to be a Scouser". Liverpool Echo.
  38. ^ Isenberg, Michael T., Shield of the Republic: The United States Navy in an Era of Cold War and Violent Peace, Volume I: 1945-1962, New York: St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-09911-8, p. 615.
  39. ^ "Official U.S. Navy Web site for Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One (VQ-1): History: A New Navy Squadron". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  40. ^ "Chronology of Significant Events in Naval Aviation: "Naval Air Transport" 1941 -- 1999". Archived from the original on 2016-03-31. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  41. ^ Republican Party platform of 1956 at The American Presidency Project
  42. ^ Haulman, Daniel L. (2003). One Hundred Years of Flight: USAF Chronology of Significant Air and Space Events, 1903-2002 (PDF). Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University Press. p. 79. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2004.
  43. ^   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Grimwood, James M. "Part 1 (A) Major Events Leading to Project Mercury March 1944 through December 1957". Project Mercury - A Chronology. NASA Special Publication-4001. NASA. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  44. ^ Zachariasz S Jablonski (1996). "The pilgrim movement to Jasna Gora in Czestochowa". Peregrinus Cracoviensis. ISSN 1425-1922.
  45. ^ "Dr. Kinsey is Dead; Sex Researcher, 62". New York Times. August 26, 1956.
  46. ^ Åberg, Andreas. "USAC National Championship 1956". Driver Database. Archived from the original on 2012-09-08. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  47. ^ www.romaniansoccer.ro
  48. ^ Carroll Van West, "Clinton Desegregation Crisis." The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2009. Retrieved: 11 February 2013.
  49. ^ "John McGlashan". Telegraph. 10 September 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  50. ^ Berumen, Frank Javier Garcia (2016). Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and Films Since the 1960s. McFarland. p. 306. ISBN 978-1-4766-1411-3.
  51. ^ "TSHA | Mansfield School Desegregation Incident".