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February 1956 was the second month of that leap year. The month which began on a Wednesday and ended after 29 days on a Wednesday.

The following events occurred in February 1956:

February 1, 1956 (Wednesday)

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February 2, 1956 (Thursday)

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February 3, 1956 (Friday)

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February 4, 1956 (Saturday)

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February 5, 1956 (Sunday)

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February 6, 1956 (Monday)

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February 7, 1956 (Tuesday)

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February 8, 1956 (Wednesday)

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February 9, 1956 (Thursday)

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February 10, 1956 (Friday)

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February 11, 1956 (Saturday)

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February 12, 1956 (Sunday)

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February 13, 1956 (Monday)

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February 14, 1956 (Tuesday)

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February 15, 1956 (Wednesday)

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  • Irish Senator Owen Sheehy-Skeffington introduces a parliamentary motion calling for the prohibition of all corporal punishment for girls in Irish national schools.[21]

February 16, 1956 (Thursday)

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February 17, 1956 (Friday)

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February 18, 1956 (Saturday)

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February 19, 1956 (Sunday)

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  • British collier ship Corchester 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]

February 20, 1956 (Monday)

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  • An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), strikes the Eskişehir region of Turkey, causing four deaths.[29]
  • Tunku Abdul Rahman, Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya announces in Malacca Town that Malaya will become independent on 31 August 1957.

February 21, 1956 (Tuesday)

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February 22, 1956 (Wednesday)

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February 23, 1956 (Thursday)

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February 24, 1956 (Friday)

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February 25, 1956 (Saturday)

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February 26, 1956 (Sunday)

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February 27, 1956 (Monday)

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February 28, 1956 (Tuesday)

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  • Born: Francis Hughes, Irish Republican activist, in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland (died 1981 while on hunger strike)[36]

February 29, 1956 (Wednesday)

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References

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  3. ^ "Ship's Crew Rescued". The Times. No. 53446. London. 4 February 1956. col D, p. 5.
  4. ^ "41 Seamen Saved By Helicopters". The Times. No. 53446. London. 4 February 1956. col C-D, p. 6.
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  6. ^ Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (1956), pp. 691–692
  7. ^ Free Cinema manifesto, February, as quoted in Free Cinema, 2006, BFI DVD booklet, [unpaginated, p9]
  8. ^ "Ejections and Bale Outs 1956". ejection-history.org.uk. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 23 August 2009.
  9. ^ "Hunter Aircraft (Crashes)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 9 February 1956. Retrieved 23 August 2009.
  10. ^ Jacobs, Seth Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Diem Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950-1963 New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing, 2006, p. 97
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  15. ^ "Cambridge spies' surface in Moscow". On This Day. BBC. 11 February 1956. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
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  18. ^ Exhibition of works of Soviet artists of 1917-1956. Catalogue. - Moscow: State Tretyakov Gallery, 1956.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ Accidente de Queronque Archived 2010-01-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
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  22. ^ "Ship Sinks After Collision". The Times. No. 53457. London. 15 February 1956. col G, p. 2.
  23. ^ The Bulletin, volumes 4-5. Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung. 1956. p. 8.
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  25. ^ "50 Killed In Malta Crash." Times [London, England] 20 Feb. 1956: 6. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 20 Jan. 2016.
  26. ^ "M7.3 – Izu Islands, Japan region". United States Geological Survey. February 18, 1956. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  27. ^ "Snooker". The Glasgow Herald. 20 February 1956. p. 4.
  28. ^ "Eight Lost As Ship Sinks". The Times. No. 53459. London. 20 February 1956. col G, p. 8.
  29. ^ National Geophysical Data Center (1972), Significant Earthquake Database, National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K
  30. ^ An International Annotated Bibliography of Strindberg Studies 1870-2005. Modern Humanities Research Association. 2008. p. 1897.
  31. ^ "Mills & Work Places". Vale and Dale Keighley. 2007. Archived from the original on 2006-05-10. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
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  33. ^ Maclay, Kathleen (March 19, 2009). "Judith Butler wins Mellon Award". UC Berkeley News. Media Relations. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
  34. ^ 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.
  35. ^ Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year. London; New York: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2.
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  38. ^ "Ship Sunk In Scheldt Collision". The Times. No. 53468. London. 1 March 1956. col D, p. 7.
  39. ^ "Aileen Carol Wuornos". The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney. Archived from the original on September 14, 2008. Retrieved September 26, 2008.