| Date | Event |
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1959 |
Peter Ablinger Was Born |
|
1959 |
Pedro Humberto Allende Died |
|
1959 |
Caroline Ansink Was Born |
|
1959 |
George Antheil Died |
|
1959 |
Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl Died |
|
1959 |
Richard Barrett Was Born |
|
1959 |
Stanley Bate Died |
|
1959 |
Carola Bauckholt Was Born |
|
1959 |
Sidney Bechet Died |
|
1959 |
Próspero Bisquertt Prado Died |
|
1959 |
Ernest Bloch Died |
|
1959 |
Fritz Brun Died |
|
1959 |
Fulvio Caldini Was Born |
|
1959 |
Claire Delbos Died |
|
1959 |
Lawrence Dillon Was Born |
|
1959 |
Mark Gustavson Was Born |
|
1959 |
Josef Matthias Hauer Died |
|
1959 |
Willem Jeths Was Born |
|
1959 |
Shigeru Kan-no Was Born |
|
1959 |
Laura Karpman Was Born |
|
November
26
1959 |
Albert Ketèlbey Died |
|
1959 |
Raimond Lap Was Born |
|
August
07
1959 |
Armas Launis Died |
|
1959 |
James MacMillan Was Born |
|
August
28
1959 |
Bohuslav Martinů Died |
|
1959 |
Steve Martland Was Born |
|
1959 |
Ludwig Mestler Died |
|
1959 |
Robin Milford Died |
|
1959 |
Simon Proctor Was Born |
|
March
25
1959 |
Adi Smolar Was Born |
|
1959 |
Martin Smolka Was Born |
|
1959 |
Robert Scott Thompson Was Born |
|
1959 |
Erkki-Sven Tüür Was Born |
|
1959 |
Nobuo Uematsu Was Born |
|
1959 |
Theo Verbey Was Born |
|
1959 |
Heitor Villa-Lobos Died |
|
1959 |
Ralph Zurmühle Was Born |
|
January
01
1959 |
Batista Overthrown By Castro During Cuban Revolution |
|
1959 |
Sebastian Currier Was Born |
|
1959 |
Burkhard Dallwitz Was Born |
|
1959 |
Joseph Bertolozzi Was Born |
|
January
02
1959 |
Luna 1 Launched By Soviet Union |
|
January
03
1959 |
Alaska Is Admitted As The 49th U.S. State |
|
January
03
1959 |
United Suvadive Republic Established By Separatists |
|
January
04
1959 |
Luna 1 First Spacecraft To Approach Moon |
|
January
07
1959 |
Fidel Castro's Government Recognized By The US |
|
January
12
1959 |
Caves Of Nerja Are Rediscovered |
|
January
20
1959 |
The First Flight Of The Vickers Vanguard |
|
January
22
1959 |
12 Miners Killed In Water Breach At Pennsylvania Mine |
|
January
30
1959 |
Unsinkable Ship Echoes Titanic; Hits Berg, All Drown |
|
February
02
1959 |
Dyatlov Pass Incident |
|
February
03
1959 |
Rock, And Roll Legends Die In Plane Crash In Iowa |
|
February
06
1959 |
Texas Instruments Patents First Integrated Circuit |
|
February
06
1959 |
Cape Canaveral Launched A Titan Missile |
|
February
09
1959 |
Semyorka Operational At Plesetsk |
|
February
11
1959 |
South Yemen Is A Protectorate Of UK |
|
February
16
1959 |
Castro Becomes Cuban Premier, Fulgencio Batista Overthrown |
|
February
17
1959 |
Project Vanguard Measures Weather Changes From Space |
|
February
19
1959 |
UK Grants Cyprus Independence |
|
February
20
1959 |
The Avro Arrow Program Is Shut Down |
|
February
22
1959 |
Lee Petty Wins The First Daytona 500 |
|
February
28
1959 |
Americas First Spy Satelite Never Achieved Orbit |
|
March
09
1959 |
Barbie Debuts In New York |
|
March
10
1959 |
Tibetians Surround Dalai Lama To Prevent Abduction |
|
March
17
1959 |
Dalai Lama Flees Tibet For India |
|
March
18
1959 |
Eisenhower Signs Hawaiian Statehood Bill |
|
March
24
1959 |
Senghor, Keïta Launch African Federation Party |
|
March
28
1959 |
China Dissolves Tibetan Government |
|
March
31
1959 |
14th Dalai Lama Crosses Border Into India |
|
April
01
1959 |
Iakovos Enthroned As New US Greek Archbishop |
|
April
08
1959 |
Grace Hopper Leads Creation Of COBOL |
|
April
08
1959 |
O.A.S. Creates The Inter-American Development Bank |
|
April
09
1959 |
NASA Announces 'Mercury Seven' Astronauts |
|
April
10
1959 |
Future Japanese Emperor Marries |
|
April
25
1959 |
St. Lawrence Seaway Officially Opens |
|
May
04
1959 |
The 1st Grammy Awards Are Held |
|
May
18
1959 |
Guinea: Launch Of National Liberation Committee |
|
May
19
1959 |
The North Vietnamese Establish Group 559 |
|
May
30
1959 |
Lyttleton Opens Auckland Harbour Bridge |
|
June
03
1959 |
Still Part Of Britain, Singapore Was Self-governing |
|
June
05
1959 |
First Government Of Singapore Sworn In |
|
June
08
1959 |
Misslie Mail Is Attempted In The US |
|
June
09
1959 |
USS George Washington Carried Ballistic Missiles First |
|
June
14
1959 |
Disneyland Opens First Monorail In Western Hemisphere |
|
June
14
1959 |
Exiles Attempt To Overthrow Dominican Government |
|
June
20
1959 |
June Hurricane Strike's Canada, Killing 35 |
|
June
23
1959 |
Klaus Fuchs Released And Allowed To Emigrate |
|
June
23
1959 |
Hotel Fire In Stalheim Kills 34 |
|
June
26
1959 |
Seaway Opens Great Lakes To Ocean Ships |
|
July
01
1959 |
African Federation Party Holds Conference |
|
July
01
1959 |
International Agreement On Measurements |
|
July
07
1959 |
Venus Blocks Regulus, Characteristics Of Venus Quantified |
|
July
15
1959 |
Steel Strike Of 1959 Begins |
|
July
21
1959 |
The NS Savannah Is Launched |
|
July
21
1959 |
Red Sox: Green 1st Black; Last Integrated |
|
July
24
1959 |
Nixon And Khrushchev Hold ""Kitchen Debate" |
|
July
25
1959 |
Hovercraft Crosses English Channel |
|
July
29
1959 |
First US Congress Elections In Hawaii |
|
August
03
1959 |
Portuguese Police Kill Striking Workers |
|
August
07
1959 |
Lincoln Memorial Displayed On U.S. Penny |
|
August
07
1959 |
Atlantic Missile Range In Cape Canaveral |
|
August
11
1959 |
Russia: Sheremetyevo Airport Opens |
|
August
14
1959 |
AFL Founded, First Official Meeting |
|
August
17
1959 |
Hebgen Lake Earthquake Forms Quake Lake, Montana |
|
August
17
1959 |
Davis's Kind Of Blue Released |
|
August
21
1959 |
U.S. President Proclaims Hawai 50th State |
|
September
08
1959 |
The AIT Is Established |
|
September
12
1959 |
The First Regularly Ty Program Presented In Color |
|
September
12
1959 |
Soviets Launch Moon Rocket, Lunik II |
|
September
14
1959 |
Soviet Luna 2, First Man-made Object On Moon |
|
September
15
1959 |
First Soviet Leader Visits The US |
|
September
16
1959 |
Photocopier Demonstrated On Television |
|
September
18
1959 |
Vanguard 3 Is Launched Into Orbit |
|
September
19
1959 |
Nikita Khrushchev Cannot Visit Disneyland |
|
September
23
1959 |
Iowan Farmer Garst Hosts Khrushchev |
|
September
23
1959 |
Princess Of Tasmania Voyages To Bass Strait |
|
September
25
1959 |
Solomon Bandaranaike Killed By Buddhist Monk, Talduwe Somarama |
|
September
26
1959 |
Typhoon Vera Kills 4,580 People In Japan |
|
September
27
1959 |
Honshu Typhoon: Nearly 5,000 Dead |
|
October
02
1959 |
Twilight Zone Premiers On CBS |
|
October
07
1959 |
U.S.S.R. Takes Photos Of The Far Side Of The Moon |
|
October
12
1959 |
Expelled Peruvian Leftist Radicals Form APRA Rebelde |
|
October
21
1959 |
Guggenheim Opens In New York City |
|
October
21
1959 |
German Scientists Transferred To NASA |
|
November
01
1959 |
Jacques Plante Wears A Protective Mask |
|
November
01
1959 |
Hutu Politician Beaten By Tutsi Forces |
|
November
02
1959 |
Van Doren Admits Having Answers To Congress |
|
November
02
1959 |
UK: First Section Of M1 Motorway Opened |
|
November
15
1959 |
Kansas Murders Inspired Truman Capote Book |
|
November
19
1959 |
Ford Announces Discontinuation Of Edsel |
|
November
21
1959 |
American Disc Jockey |
|
November
23
1959 |
De Gaulle Discuss Vision For Europe In Strasbourg |
|
December
01
1959 |
Antarctic Treaty Preserves Antarctica, Bans Military |
|
December
03
1959 |
Singapore Adopts Flag |
|
December
13
1959 |
Makarios III Becomes Cyprus President |
|
December
20
1959 |
Family Murdered In Osprey, Florida |
|
December
29
1959 |
The Lisbon Metro Begins Operation |
|
December
29
1959 |
Feynman Gives Speech About Nanotechnology |