About the day » Wednesday July 25, 1956Calender converter

• Wilhelmus Elisabeth Leonard Pelzer, Heerlen (L
• Gerrit van Putten, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Cornelia Hoek, Katwijk († 1956)
• Cornelia Hoek, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1956)
• Gerda Bakker, Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1956)
• Johannes Catharina Marie Janssen, Stein, Limburg, Nederland († 1974)
• Harley James Diede, Eveleth, St Louis, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Gerrit van Putten, Schiedam († 1961)
• Mark Edwin LEWIS, Lafayette Tippecanoe County Indiana U.S.A († 2014)
• Piet van Steenis, Herwijnen (Lingewaal) (GL) († 2024)

• Adriaan Pieter Kornelis Onderdijk (76), Amsterdam
• Cornelis HUISMAN (77), Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alberdina Hamminga (86), Den Haag
• Dirk Faas (34), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia H. Rustenhoven (36)
• Dina de Voogd (64), Aagtekerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Effie E. Banty (78)
• Cornelia Hendrika Rustenhoven (36), Arnhem (Gelderland)
• Aartje JANSEN (76), Putten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Archie Arlando Smith (78), Little Flint, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States

• 1954 » Jochem Ziegert, German footballer and manager
• 1954 » Ken Greer, Canadian guitarist, keyboard player, and producer
• 1954 » Sheena McDonald, Scottish journalist
• 1954 » Walter Payton, American football player and race car driver († 1999)
• 1955 » Iman, Somalian-English model and actress
• 1955 » Randall Bewley, American guitarist and songwriter († 2009)
• 1956 » Andy Goldsworthy, English-Scottish sculptor and photographer
• 1956 » Frances Arnold, American scientist and engineer
• 1957 » Mark Hunter, English politician
• 1957 » Steve Podborski, Canadian skier

• 1942 » Fred Englehardt, American triple jumper (b. 1879)
• 1952 » Herbert Murrill, English organist and composer (b. 1909)
• 1958 » Otto Lasanen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1891)
• 1959 » Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Irish rabbi and author (b. 1888)
• 1962 » Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1879)
• 1963 » Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist and academic (b. 1877)
• 1966 » Frank O'Hara, American poet and critic (b. 1926)
• 1967 » Konstantinos Parthenis, Egyptian-Greek painter (b. 1878)
• 1971 » John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880)
• 1971 » Leroy Robertson, American composer and educator (b. 1896)

• 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.
• February 20 » The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.
• April 19 » Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
• August 27 » The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
• October 8 » The New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.
• November 2 » Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.
• December 4 » The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time.

The temperature on July 25, 1956 was between 10.8 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.