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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1959


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Birthdays


Deaths
  • January 2 - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (b. 1880)
  • January 21 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (b. 1881)
  • January 21 - Carl Switzer, American actor (b. 1927)
  • January 22 - Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1929)
  • January 28 - Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)
  • February 1 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873)
  • February 3 - Buddy Holly, American singer (b. 1936)
  • February 3 - Roger Peterson, pilot of the Beechcraft Bonanza (b. 1957)
  • February 3 - Ritchie Valens, American singer (b. 1941)
  • February 3 - J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, American singer (b. 1930)
  • February 4 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)
  • February 7 - Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (b. 1874)
  • February 7 - Guitar Slim, American blues guitarist (b. 1926)
  • February 11 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (b. 1922)
  • February 14 - Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (b. 1898)
  • February 15 - Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist
  • February 28 - Maxwell Anderson, American playwright and film writer (b. 1888)
  • March 2 - Eric Blore, English actor (b. 1887)
  • March 3 - Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)
  • March 4 - Maxey Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
  • March 15 - Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909)
  • March 26 - Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888)
  • March 29 - Barthelemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
  • March 30 - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)
  • March 30 - Riccardo Zanella, president of Free State of Fiume (b. 1875)
  • April 9 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)
  • April 13 - Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (b. 1901)
  • May 5 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician
  • May 14 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)
  • May 16 - Elisha Scott, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1894)
  • May 24 - John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
  • June 1 - Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883)
  • June 9 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist
  • June 10 - Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883)
  • June 16 - George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914)
  • June 18 - Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
  • June 22 - Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
  • June 23 - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (b. 1920)
  • June 25 - Charles Starkweather, spree killer (b. 1938)
  • June 30 - José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
  • July 11 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882)
  • July 15 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
  • July 15 - Vance Palmer, Australian author (b. 1885)
  • July 17 - Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
  • July 17 - Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875)
  • July 20 - William D. Leahy, American admiral (b. 1875)
  • August 5 - Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881)
  • August 6 - Preston Sturges, American playwright
  • August 12 - Mike O'Neill, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1877)
  • August 15 - Blind Willie McTell, American singer (b. 1901)
  • August 16 - William Halsey Jr., American Navy Admiral (b. 1882)
  • August 16 - Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879)
  • August 19 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (b. 1880)
  • August 19 - Blind Willie McTell, American blues singer
  • August 20 - William Halsey, Jr
  • August 28 - Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
  • September 7 - Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b. 1890)
  • September 14 - Wayne Morris, American actor (b. 1914)
  • September 18 - Benjamin Péret, French surrealist author
  • September 28 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (b. 1901)
  • October 6 - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
  • October 7 - Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
  • October 14 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)
  • October 15 - Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1880)
  • October 16 - George Marshall, United States Secretary of State
  • October 18 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
  • October 23 - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
  • October 28 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
  • October 31 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)
  • November 7 - Victor McLaglen, British-born actor (b. 1883
  • November 8 - Frank Sherman Land, founder of DeMolay International (b. 1890)
  • November 15 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist
  • November 17 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
  • November 19 - Joseph Charbonneau, archbishop of Montreal (b. 1892)
  • November 21 - Max Baer, American boxer (b. 1909)
  • November 24 - Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (b. 1883)
  • November 25 - Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)
  • November 26 - Albert Ketèlbey, British composer (b. 1875)
  • December 11 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)
  • December 21 - Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher
  • December 22 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American dancer and actress (b. 1901)
  • December 28 - Ante Pavelić, leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (b. 1889)

Events
  • January 1 - Fulgencio Batista, president of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces during the Cuban Revolution.
  • January 2 - Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the U.S.S.R.
  • January 3 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. State.
  • January 4 - Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
  • January 7 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
  • January 8 - Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution is completed with the take over of Santiago de Cuba.
  • January 25 - Pope John XXIII proclaims upcoming Second Vatican Council.
  • January 29 - Sleeping Beauty, an animated feature produced by Walt Disney based upon a fairy tale, is released.
  • February 3 - A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and Roger Peterson also known as The Day the Music Died.
  • February 6 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
  • February 6 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
  • February 16 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
  • February 17 - Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2
  • February 19 - The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence, which is then on formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
  • February 20 - The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
  • February 22 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
  • March 4 - U.S. Pioneer 4 misses Moon and becomes the second (U.S. first) artificial planet.
  • March 9 - The Barbie doll debuts.
  • March 10 - Tibet leads an unsuccessful uprising against ten years of Chinese occupation in Lhasa. Thousands are massacred by the occupying Chinese army.
  • March 17 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
  • March 18 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
  • March 24 - The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.
  • March 31 - The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
  • April 9 - Mercury program: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
  • April 10 - Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko.
  • April 25 - The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
  • April 27 - The last Canadian missionary leaves the People's Republic of China.
  • May 18 - Launching of the National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea.
  • May 30 - The Auckland Harbour Bridge is officially opened today in Auckland, New Zealand.
  • June 5 - The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
  • June 8 - The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
  • June 9 - The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
  • June 14 - A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies that departed from Cuba land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina. Save for four of them, all were killed and/or executed by Trujillo's army. This feat would be the inspiration for a clandestine group that would seek to continue undermining Trujillo's power and would be called "Movimiento Catorce de Junio" (14th of June Movement).
  • June 18 - Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.
  • June 20 - A rare June hurricane struck Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
  • June 23 - Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).
  • June 23 - A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.
  • June 26 - The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
  • July 1 - The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference.
  • July 4 - With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • July 7 - 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event was used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
  • July 15 - The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
  • July 20 - The Organization for European Economic Cooperation admits Spain.
  • July 24 - At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
  • July 25 - SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
  • July 29 - First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
  • August 7 - The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design and is still in use.
  • August 7 - Explorer program: Explorer 6 launched from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
  • August 17 - Quake Lake: Quake Lake was formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
  • August 21 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.
  • September 8 - The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
  • September 12 - Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.
  • September 12 - The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
  • September 14 - The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
  • September 15 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
  • September 18 - Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
  • September 19 - Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland.
  • September 23 - The M/S Princess of Tasmania Australia’s first passenger RO/RO diesel ferry makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
  • September 25 - Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
  • September 27 - Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
  • October 7 - U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits first ever photographs of the far side of the moon.
  • October 12 - At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
  • October 21 - In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • October 21 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
  • October 31 - Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.
  • November 2 - Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
  • November 2 - Ice Hockey: After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play.
  • November 2 - The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway
  • November 15 - Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
  • November 19 - Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
  • November 23 - General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals."
  • December 1 - Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed , which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent.
  • December 13 - Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus.


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