The temperature on July 24, 1956 was between 11.7 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 12.7 mm of rain during 6.2 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 30 » Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
July 9 » The 7.7 Mw Amorgos earthquake shakes the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The shaking and the destructive tsunami that followed left fifty-three people dead. A damaging M7.2 aftershock occurred minutes after the mainshock.
July 25 » Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SSAndrea Doria collides with the MSStockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
July 30 » A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
September 13 » The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
September 16 » TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
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