About the day » Monday September 24, 1956Calender converter

• van Baren, Woerden († 1956)
• Greta Loncke, Zwevegem († 1957)
• Edward John de Bartolo
• Donald Alan (Don) BLAIN, Grand Rapids Kent County Michigan U.S.A († 2015)
• Johanna Schinkel, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Gezina Delger, Amsterdam
• Mark Robert Schoenheider, Frankfurt († 1994)
• Roeleke Kleine Deters, Emmen,Drenthe,Niederlande,Klazienaveen († 1994)
• Kim Wallace REID, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 2022)
• Rolf Alexander van der Mije, Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Antonius Wilhelmus Maria van Kollenburg
• van Baren (0), Woerden
• Clara Rehder (85), São João da Boa Vista, São Paulo, Brasil
• Albertus Samuëlsz van der Meij (81), Leiden
• Albertus van der Meij (81), Leiden
• Anna Else Arnold (63), Halle an der Saale, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
• Cesaria Maria Segaert (61), Zerkegem
• Coenraad Samuel [Coen] van Beuningen (74), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• CATHARINA JOHANNA Baars (54), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL
• Corneel BRABANTS (74), Mechelen

• 1952 » Dieter Hochheimer, German footballer and manager
• 1953 » Peter Halley, American painter and educator
• 1954 » Marco Tardelli, Italian footballer and coach
• 1955 » Riccardo Illy, Italian businessman and politician, President of Friuli Venezia Giulia
• 1956 » Hubie Brooks, American baseball player
• 1957 » Brad Bird, American director, screenwriter, animator, producer and actor
• 1957 » Wolfgang Wolf, German footballer and manager
• 1958 » Kevin Sorbo, American actor and producer
• 1959 » Steve Whitmire, American puppeteer
• 1959 » Theo Paphitis, Cypriot-English businessman

• 1938 » Lev Schnirelmann, Belarusian-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
• 1939 » Carl Laemmle, German-American film producer, founded Universal Studios (b. 1867)
• 1939 » Charles Tatham, American fencer (b. 1854)
• 1945 » Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter (b. 1882)
• 1947 » Andrew C. McLaughlin, American historian and author (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)
• 1950 » Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1863)
• 1962 » Charles Reisner, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1887)
• 1973 » August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler and poet (b. 1887)
• 1973 » Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist (b. 1908)

• 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.
• February 25 » In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.
• June 29 » The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
• October 15 » FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
• October 26 » Hungarian Revolution: In the towns of Mosonmagyaróvár and Esztergom, Hungarian secret police forces massacre civilians. As rebel strongholds in Budapest hold, fighting spreads throughout the country.
• November 4 » Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution against the Soviet Union that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.

The temperature on September 24, 1956 was between 10.8 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.