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The following lists events that happened during 1956 in the Belgian Congo.
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South Kivu Sugar Refinery is founded in Kiliba, South Kivu. [1] | |
Alphonse De Valkeneer is appointed acting governor of the province of Équateur. [2] | |
January | Jean Paelinck (1906–1961) is appointed governor of Katanga Province. [2] |
20 February | Bruno Tshibala, future prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is born in Gandajika. |
June | OK Jazz, later renamed TPOK Jazz, is formed in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa). [3] |