Born in August 1956 - Zodiac Signs, Personality and Horoscopes

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August 1956 Tropical Ephemeris

What happened in August 1956

• August 6, 1956: DuMont Television Network, an American broadcaster, airs its final broadcast, an episode of Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena, after declaring bankruptcy in 1955.
• August 7, 1956: Seven ammunition trucks carrying 1,053 boxes of dynamite explode in Cali, Colombia, resulting in an estimated 1,300 to 10,000 deaths in a city with 120,000 inhabitants.
• August 8, 1956: A fire at the Bois du Cazier coal mine in Marcinelle, Belgium, claims the lives of 262 miners, primarily Italian nationals.
• August 9, 1956: The art exhibition This Is Tomorrow opens at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, showcasing significant developments in contemporary art.
• August 12, 1956: Approximately 5,000 members of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church gather outside Cluj-Napoca Piarists' Church to demonstrate the continued existence of their church, which was outlawed by the government in 1948.
• August 17, 1956: West Germany enacts a ban on the Communist Party of Germany.