About the day » Thursday May 31, 1956Calender converter

• Vickie Lea Siscoe, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas († 1970)
• Nicolaas David JAGER, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 2009)
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• Marie-José Vrijsen, Lommel, Limburg, België († 2011)
• Nelly KOOPMANS, Genk (Limburg) (B) († 1961)
• Petrus Antonius Johannes Krol
• Larry Michael Todd ?***, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1990)
• maria jacoba cornelia (maya) aarts, helden-panningen († 2008)
• Donald Ray Todd ****, New Hanover, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• Jos Vanstippelen († 2006)

• Abel Klazes Prins (84), Warffum, Groningen, Nederland
• alida catharina maria lammers (81), bussum
• Adrianus van der Horst (71), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abel Klazes PRINS (84), Warffum Groningen Netherlands
• Alice Antoinette Jeanne Gijsberghs (59), Leopoldsburg, Limburg, België
• Alphonsus Joannes van IERSEL (71), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana NOLLE (71), Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
• Bertha Savage (75), White County, Tennessee
• Anna Barbara Neeltje van der Jagt (86), Delft
• Adolf Johann Raymann (82)

• 1953 » Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Finnish actor and screenwriter
• 1954 » Thomas Mavros, Greek footballer
• 1954 » Vicki Sue Robinson, American actress and singer († 2000)
• 1955 » Susie Essman, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter
• 1955 » Tommy Emmanuel, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 » Fritz Hilpert, German drummer and composer
• 1956 » John Young, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1957 » Jim Craig, American ice hockey player
• 1959 » Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver († 2014)
• 1959 » Phil Wilson, English politician

• 1945 » Odilo Globocnik, Italian-Austrian SS officer (b. 1904)
• 1954 » Antonis Benakis, Greek art collector and philanthropist, founded the Benaki Museum (b. 1873)
• 1957 » Leopold Staff, Polish poet and academic (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Stefanos Sarafis, Greek general and politician (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Walther Funk, German economist, journalist, and politician, German Minister of Economics (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Willem Elsschot, Flemish author and poet (b. 1882)
• 1962 » Henry F. Ashurst, American lawyer and politician (b. 1874)
• 1967 » Billy Strayhorn, American pianist and composer (b. 1915)
• 1970 » Terry Sawchuk, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• 1976 » Jacques Monod, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Peter
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. Petrus
10. Gerrit
11. John
12. Adrianus
13. Paul
14. Dirk
15. Jacobus
16. Jacob

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Elisabeth
5. Anna
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Petronella
10. Hendrika
11. Yvonne
12. Geertruida
13. Margaretha
14. Marianne
15. Patricia
16. Jacoba

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
• March 9 » Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
• May 1 » A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
• September 25 » TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
• October 17 » The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
• October 21 » The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya is defeated.
• November 13 » The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The temperature on May 31, 1956 was between 10.2 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.