1956 in Portugal
Events in the year 1956 in Portugal.
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Events
- 11–12 February – A cold spell across the country causes four deaths and sees Lisbon experience its coldest day of the 20th century, with the newspaper Diário de Lisboa reporting temperatures of –2°C in the early hours of 12 February.[1]
Arts and entertainment
Births
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- 23 March – José Manuel Barroso, politician
- 29 June – Pedro Santana Lopes, politician
- 15 October – Maria da Assunção Esteves, politician, Member of the European Parliament.[2]
Deaths
- 27 October – Domingos Leite Pereira, politician (b. 1880).[3]
- 11 November – António Ferro, writer and politician (b. 1895).[4]
References
- Palma, Tiago (8 February 2018). "Como Lisboa viveu o seu dia mais frio do século XX". Observador (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- "Maria da Assunção Esteves". www.europarl.europa.eu (in Portuguese). Parlamento Europeo. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- Jaca, Carlos (2006). "Domingos Pereira, um bracarense na 1ª República: trajectória política". Forum. 40: 79-117. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- "Dr. Antonio Ferro – Propagandist for Portugal". The Times. 12 November 1956. p. 14.
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