East Germany's national airline Deutsche Lufthansa (DLH), established in the previous year, begins scheduled passenger flights between East Berlin and Warsaw, Poland.
1956 Hawker Hunter multiple aircraft accident: Eight aircraft from RAF West RaynhamHawker Hunter jet fighters are diverted to RAF Marham after completing a combat exercise. Only two manage to land successfully; the remaining six are lost as a result of a combination of poor visibility and fuel shortage. Four pilots eject,[8] one survives a crash and the sixth is killed.[9]
The Brazilian cargo ship Loide-Honduras runs aground on Long Sand Bank, in the Thames Estuary, UK. A British ship, ST Rumania, is sent to assist but runs aground on the same sandbank and sinks.
The British ship MV Conlea founders 15 nautical miles (28 km) off La Corbière, Jersey.[12]
Irish Senator Owen Sheehy-Skeffington introduces a parliamentary motion calling for the prohibition of all corporal punishment for girls in Irish national schools.[21]
British collier shipCorchester collides with SS City of Sydney near the Haisborough Light Vessel, off the coast of Norfolk, UK, and sinks; eight of her 21 crew lose their lives.[28]
Turkish cargo ship Sapanca collides in the River Scheldt, Belgium, with Dutch ship SS Blommersdijk and sinks. All 35 crew members are rescued by Blommersdijk.[38]
Born:Aileen Wuornos, US serial killer, in Rochester, Michigan[39] (executed 2002)
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^Exhibition of works of Soviet artists of 1917-1956. Catalogue. - Moscow: State Tretyakov Gallery, 1956.
^Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005. - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007.
^Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (February 24–25, 1956). "On the Personality Cult and its Consequences". Special report at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Retrieved 2006-08-27.
