Events
DateEvent
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