Editing 1956 (section)

=== August ===
{{Main|August 1956}}
* [[August 7]] – Seven ammunition trucks loaded with 1,053 boxes of dynamite [[Cali explosion|explode in Cali, Colombia]]. Death estimates range from 1,300 to 10,000, in a city that at this time has 120,000 inhabitants.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.revistacredencial.com/credencial/historia/temas/la-explosion-de-cali-agosto-7-de-1956|title=La Explosión de Cali: Agosto 7 de 1956|date=2016-09-16|website=Revista Credencial|language=es|access-date=2019-03-21}}</ref>
* [[August 8]] – 262 miners (chiefly Italian nationals) die in a fire at the [[Bois du Cazier]] coal mine, in [[Marcinelle]], Belgium.
* [[August 9]] – Art exhibition ''[[This Is Tomorrow]]'' opens at [[Whitechapel Art Gallery]] in London.
* [[August 12]] – Around 5,000 members of the [[Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic|Romanian Greek-Catholic Church]] hold a [[Mass (liturgy)|mass]] outside [[Cluj-Napoca Piarists' Church]] to demonstrate that their church, proscribed by the government in 1948, has not ceased to exist as the regime claims.
* [[August 17]] – West Germany bans the [[Communist Party of Germany]].
* The first [[interfaith dialogue]] between Christians, Jews and Muslims with over 850 participants takes place at the [[monastery of Toumliline]] in [[Azrou]], [[Morocco]].<ref name="Ramesa">{{cite web |last1=Ramesa |first1=Rafael |title=How the inter-faith 'spirit of Toumliline' lives on 50 years after Moroccan monastery closed |url=https://capacity4dev.europa.eu/news/how-inter-faith-spirit-toumliline-lives-50-years-after-moroccan-monastery-closed_en |website=Capacity4dev |publisher=European Union |access-date=18 December 2023}}</ref>