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Month April 1956 Calendar

About Month of April Calendar

  • April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, the fifth in the early Julian and one of four months with a length of 30 days. April is commonly associated with the season of spring in parts of the Northern hemisphere and autumn in parts of the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.

    April symbols: The birthstone for April is the diamond. The birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy (Bellis perennis) or the Sweet Pea. The zodiac signs for the month of April are Aries (until April 20) and Taurus (April 21 onwards).

Historical Events for April, 1956

  • Day of Week 2nd » 'As the World Turns' and 'The Edge of Night' premiere on CBS-TV. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.
  • Day of Week 3rd » Hudsonville-Standale Tornado of April 1956 named Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly Fujita scale e.g F5 tornado.
  • Day of Week 5th » Fidel Castro declares himself at war with President of Cuba called Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
  • 5th » In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and Solomon Bandaranaike e.g S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
  • Day of Week 7th » Spain relinquishes its Spanish Morocco called protectorate in Morocco.
  • Day of Week 14th » In Chicago, Quadruplex videotape named videotape is first demonstrated.
  • Day of Week 19th » Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III, Prince of Monaco known as Prince Rainier of Monaco.
  • Day of Week 30th » Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming "I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty."

Famous Birthdays on April in 1956

  • 1st » Jeffrey Beecroft, American production designer
  • 3rd » Miguel Bosé, Spanish-Italian singer and actor
  • 3rd » Ray Combs, American actor and game show host (d. 1996)
  • 3rd » Kalle Kulbok, Estonian politician
  • 3rd » Boris Miljković, Serbian director and producer
  • 3rd » Tessa Souter, English-American singer-songwriter
  • 4th » Evelyn Hart, Canadian ballerina
  • 4th » Tom Herr, American baseball player and manager
  • 4th » David E. Kelley, American screenwriter and producer
  • 5th » Dwight Hicks, American football player and actor
  • 5th » Suzi Leather, English civil servant
  • 5th » Diamond Dallas Page, American wrestler and actor
  • 6th » Michele Bachmann, American politician
  • 6th » Normand Corbeil, Canadian composer (d. 2013)
  • 6th » Lee Scott (politician) e.g Lee Scott, English politician
  • 6th » Sebastian Spreng, Argentinian-American painter and journalist
  • 6th » Dilip Vengsarkar, Indian cricketer
  • 7th » Annika Billström, Swedish politician, 16th List of mayors of Stockholm or Mayor of Stockholm
  • 7th » Christopher Darden, American lawyer
  • 8th » Christine Boisson, French actress
  • 8th » Roman Dragoun, Czech singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Progres 2)
  • 8th » Jim Piddock, English actor, screenwriter, and producer
  • 8th » Justin Sullivan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (New Model Army (band) known as New Model Army)
  • 9th » Michael Hashim, American saxophonist
  • 9th » Miguel Ángel Russo, Argentinian footballer and coach
  • 9th » Vahur Sova, Estonian architect
  • 12th » Andy García, Cuban-American actor
  • 12th » Herbert Grönemeyer, German singer-songwriter and actor
  • 13th » Possum Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (d. 2003)
  • 13th » Alan Devonshire, English footballer and manager
  • 14th » Barbara Bonney, American soprano
  • 14th » Boris Šprem, Croatian politician, 8th President of Croatian Parliament (d. 2012)
  • 15th » Michael Cooper, American basketball player and coach
  • 16th » David M. Brown, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2003)
  • 16th » T Lavitz, American keyboard player, composer, and producer (Dixie Dregs, Jazz Is Dead, and Widespread Panic) (d. 2010)
  • 16th » Lise-Marie Morerod, Swiss skier
  • 17th » Colin Tyre, Lord Tyre, Scottish lawyer and judge
  • 18th » Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress
  • 18th » Eric Roberts, American actor
  • 18th » Melody Thomas Scott, American actress
  • 19th » Sue Barker, English tennis player and journalist
  • 19th » Randy Carlyle, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 19th » Anne Glover (biologist) named Anne Glover, Scottish biologist and academic
  • 20th » Beatrice Ask, Swedish politician
  • 21st » Peter Kosminsky, English director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 21st » Phillip Longman, German-American demographer
  • 21st » Nina Temple, English activist
  • 24th » Richard Sambrook, English journalist and academic
  • 24th » James A. Winnefeld, Jr., American admiral
  • 25th » Dominique Blanc, French actress
  • 25th » Jaroslava Schallerová, Czech actress
  • 25th » Andres Sõber, Estonian basketball player and coach
  • 26th » Koo Stark, American actress
  • 27th » Bryan Harvey (musician) named Bryan Harvey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (House of Freaks) (d. 2006)
  • 27th » Bridget Kendall, English journalist
  • 27th » Kevin McNally, English actor
  • 27th » Douglas P., English-Australian singer, producer, and actor (Death in June and Crisis (British band) known as Crisis)
  • 27th » Jeff Probyn, English rugby player
  • 28th » Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist Cold Chisel, Fraternity (band) e.g Fraternity, and Living Loud)
  • 29th » Ketil Stokkan, Norwegian singer-songwriter (Zoo (Norwegian band) called Zoo)
  • 30th » Jorge Chaminé, Portuguese opera singer
  • 30th » Lars von Trier, Danish director and screenwriter

Famous Deaths for April 1956

  • 13th » Emil Nolde, German painter (b. 1867)
  • 21st » Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1895)
  • 26th » Edward Arnold (actor) named Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
  • 29th » Harold Bride, English soldier and operator (b. 1890)
  • 29th » Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)
  • 30th » Alben W. Barkley, American lawyer and politician, 35th Vice President of the United States (b. 1877)

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