1956 In Portugal
Events in the year 1956 in Portugal. Incumbents *List of Presidents of Portugal, President: Francisco Craveiro Lopes *List of Prime Ministers of Portugal, Prime Minister: António de Oliveira Salazar 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. Arts and entertainment Sports Births *23 March – José Manuel Barroso, politician *29 June – Pedro Santana Lopes, politician *15 October – Maria da Assunção Esteves, politician, Member of the European Parliament. Deaths *27 October – Domingos Leite Pereira, politician (b. 1880). *11 November – António Ferro, writer and politician (b. 1895). References

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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ...
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