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Contents  (full)

1 Events of 1959

-  Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

-  May ^. June ^. July  ^.  Aug.

-  Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^.  Dec.

-  Undated ^. Ongoing ^.

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel Prizes

5 See also -  Notes -  External links

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Events of 1959

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January

• January 1
  • Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin.
  • Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance.

January 2: Castro's guerilla troops

• January 2
  • CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Road of Life, and This is Nora Drake.
  • Castro's troops approach Havana.

Che

• January 3
  • Island of Addu in the Maldives declares independence.
  • Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
• January 4
  • In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana.
  • In Léopoldville 42 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the Abako party.
• January 6 - Fidel Castro arrives in Havana.
• January 7 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
• January 8 - Charles De Gaulle inaugurated as the first president of French Fifth Republic.
• January 12 - The Caves of Nerja were discovered in Spain.

Jan.3 Alaska

• January 13 - Cuban communists execute 71 supporters of Fulgencio Batista.
• January 22 - Knox Mine Disaster - water breaches River Slope mine in Port Griffith, Pennsylvania - 12 miners dead.
• January 25 - Pope John XXIII announces that the Second Vatican Council will be convene in Rome.

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February

Feb. 3: Crash kills musicians

• February 1 - A referendum in Switzerland turns down female suffrage.
• February 3 - The chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper goes down in an Iowa snowstorm, killing all four occupants on board. The tragedy is later termed "The Day the Music Died" popularized in Don McLean's song American Pie.
• February 6 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
• February 13 -*TAT-2 cable goes into operation.
• February 16
  • Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba.
  • A blizzard causes a massive power outage in Newfoundland.
• February 17 - USA launches the Vanguard II weather satellite.
• February 18
  • Jesus Sosa Blanco, murderer of 108 people, executed in Cuba.
  • Women in Nepal vote for the first time.
• February 19 - The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence.
• February 20 - The Canadian Government cancels the CF-105 Arrow projectit.
• February 22 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
• February 26 - Author Walter Mene throws acid on a Rubens painting in Munich.

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March

• March 1
  • USS Tuscaloosa, USS New Orleans, USS Tennessee and USS West Virginia struck from the Naval Vessel Register.
  • Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus from exile.
• March 8 - Last television appearance of The Marx Brothers, in The Incredible Jewel Robbery.
• March 9 - The Barbie doll debuts.
• March 11
  • Een beetje by Teddy Scholten (music by Dick Schallies, text by Willy van Hemert) wins Eurovision Song Contest 1959 for Netherlands.
  • "Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry opens on Broadway in New York.
• March 12 - Production of the first solid gold "Glaussen Pennies".
• March 17 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet and travels to India.
• March 18 - American President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs bill allowing for Hawaiian statehood.
• March 19 - Two other islands join Addu in the United Suvadive Republic (abolished September 1963), in the Maldives Islands.
• March 31
  • Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida is dedicated and opens its gates.
  • Dalai Lama leaves Tibet.

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April

• April 9 - NASA announces its selection of seven military pilots to become the first US astronauts (see Mercury Seven).
• April 10 - Japanese prince Akihito married Shōda Michiko.
• April 25 - The St. Lawrence Seaway linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean officially opens to shipping.

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May

• May - First Ten Tors event held in Dartmoor.
• late May / early June - import tariffs lifted in the United Kingdom.
• May 24 - British Empire Day is renamed Commonwealth Day.

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