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Events on the year of 1959 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1959 Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dom Rep
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01 Jan 1959 Chad becomes autonomous Republic in French Community
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01 Jan 1959 Rohan Kanhai completes 256 vs. India at Calcutta
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01 Jan 1959 Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces during the Cuban Revolution.
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02 Jan 1959 USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit
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02 Jan 1959 Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista flees
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02 Jan 1959 Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
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03 Jan 1959 Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
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03 Jan 1959 Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
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04 Jan 1959 Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
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07 Jan 1959 The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
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09 Jan 1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
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09 Jan 1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die
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11 Jan 1959 NFL Pro Bowl East beats West 28-21
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11 Jan 1959 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mayfair Golf Open
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11 Jan 1959 Hanif Mohammad completes 499 for Karachi, then 1st class world record
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11 Jan 1959 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke
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12 Jan 1959 The Caves of Nerja are rediscovered in Spain.
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12 Jan 1959 KOED TV channel 11 in Tulsa OK (PBS) begins broadcasting
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13 Jan 1959 King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence
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13 Jan 1959 De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts
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18 Jan 1959 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
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20 Jan 1959 The first flight of the Vickers Vanguard.
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20 Jan 1959 Dmitri Shostakovich's "Moscow-Tsjerjomoesjki" premieres in Moscow
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22 Jan 1959 Knox Mine disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners are killed.
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22 Jan 1959 USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects
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24 Jan 1959 "Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 38 performances
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24 Jan 1959 "Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden New York City NY after 38 performances
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24 Jan 1959 Dmitri Shostakovich's comedy "Cheryomushk" premieres in Moscow
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24 Jan 1959 WHCT TV channel 18 in Hartford CT (IND) begins broadcasting
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25 Jan 1959 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (American) (Los Angeles to New York for $301)
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25 Jan 1959 Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council
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26 Jan 1959 Italy government of Fanfani resigns
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26 Jan 1959 KOKH TV channel 25 in Oklahoma City OK, (IND/PBS) begins broadcasting
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28 Jan 1959 Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US
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29 Jan 1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
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30 Jan 1959 MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.
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30 Jan 1959 Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test vs England, Adelaide Oval
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30 Jan 1959 Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh" premieres
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31 Jan 1959 Joe Cronin signs 7 year pact to become head of AL
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01 Feb 1959 Swiss males vote against voting rights for women
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01 Feb 1959 Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
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01 Feb 1959 US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
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01 Feb 1959 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Havana Golf Tournament
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01 Feb 1959 WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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01 Feb 1959 Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame
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02 Feb 1959 Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers
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02 Feb 1959 Dyatlov Pass incident
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03 Feb 1959 Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
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04 Feb 1959 Israel begins exporting copper ore
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05 Feb 1959 "Redhead" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 455 performances
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05 Feb 1959 Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide
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06 Feb 1959 1st successful test-fire of Titan ICBM
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06 Feb 1959 Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow
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06 Feb 1959 At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
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06 Feb 1959 Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
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07 Feb 1959 "Whoop-Up" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 56 performances
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07 Feb 1959 Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution
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07 Feb 1959 Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air)
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07 Feb 1959 Dorothy Rigney sells White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M
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09 Feb 1959 The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
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10 Feb 1959 Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone"
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10 Feb 1959 Tornado in St. Louis kills 19 and injures 265
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11 Feb 1959 The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
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11 Feb 1959 Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v West Indies at Delhi)
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13 Feb 1959 Barbie doll goes on sale
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13 Feb 1959 Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns
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14 Feb 1959 $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York NY
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15 Feb 1959 Antonio Segni forms Italian government
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15 Feb 1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Tournament
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16 Feb 1959 Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
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16 Feb 1959 Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista
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16 Feb 1959 Leonard Spigelgass' "Majority of One" premieres in New York NY
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17 Feb 1959 Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
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17 Feb 1959 1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg
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19 Feb 1959 The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
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19 Feb 1959 Gabon adopts its constitution
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19 Feb 1959 USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), New Mexico
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19 Feb 1959 Britain, Turkey & Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence
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20 Feb 1959 The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
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22 Feb 1959 Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
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22 Feb 1959 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH)
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23 Feb 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
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23 Feb 1959 KVIE TV channel 6 in Sacramento-Stockton CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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27 Feb 1959 Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers
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27 Feb 1959 Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players
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28 Feb 1959 "Goldilocks" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances
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28 Feb 1959 Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched. It failed to achieve orbit.
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28 Feb 1959 Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit
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28 Feb 1959 NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players
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28 Feb 1959 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs USA won by Denny & Jones of Great Britain
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28 Feb 1959 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul of CAN
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28 Feb 1959 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins USA
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01 Mar 1959 Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years
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01 Mar 1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament
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03 Mar 1959 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched
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03 Mar 1959 British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis
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04 Mar 1959 US Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet
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05 Mar 1959 Iran and US sign economic and military treaty
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06 Mar 1959 11st Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr
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06 Mar 1959 Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
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07 Mar 1959 "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 925 performances
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07 Mar 1959 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
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07 Mar 1959 West Indies all out 76 vs. Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34
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08 Mar 1959 KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
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08 Mar 1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
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08 Mar 1959 Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq
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09 Mar 1959 "Juno" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 16 performances
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09 Mar 1959 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
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09 Mar 1959 The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
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10 Mar 1959 Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
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10 Mar 1959 Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck
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10 Mar 1959 Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" premieres in New York NY
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10 Mar 1959 Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet
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11 Mar 1959 "Raisin in the Sun, " 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens
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11 Mar 1959 Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little Bit"
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12 Mar 1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
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12 Mar 1959 US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
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15 Mar 1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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15 Mar 1959 Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 minutes 42.5 seconds
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16 Mar 1959 Iraq and the USSR sign economic / technical treaty
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17 Mar 1959 Australia and the USSR restore diplomatic relations
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17 Mar 1959 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
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17 Mar 1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
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18 Mar 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
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18 Mar 1959 Boston Celtics' Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws
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18 Mar 1959 President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
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19 Mar 1959 "1st Impressions" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 84 performances
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21 Mar 1959 "Juno" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 16 performances
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21 Mar 1959 21st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: California beats W Va 71-70
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22 Mar 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament
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24 Mar 1959 The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keïta.
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24 Mar 1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact
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25 Mar 1959 Bill White traded to St. Louis for pitchers Sam Jones and Don Choate
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25 Mar 1959 French President De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary
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26 Mar 1959 Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad vs West Indies age 15 years 124 days
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28 Mar 1959 The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.
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28 Mar 1959 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government & installs Panchen Lama
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29 Mar 1959 "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon premieres
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29 Mar 1959 Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore
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30 Mar 1959 WNED TV channel 17 in Buffalo, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
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31 Mar 1959 The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
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31 Mar 1959 Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India
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01 Apr 1959 Iakovos is enthroned as Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America.
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04 Apr 1959 Fed of Mali, consisting of Senegal and French Sudan (dissolved 1960)
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05 Apr 1959 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall Jr wins, shooting a 284
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06 Apr 1959 31st Academy Awards - "Gigi, " Susan Hayward and David Niven win
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07 Apr 1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
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07 Apr 1959 Radar 1st bounced off Sun - Stanford, California
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08 Apr 1959 The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
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08 Apr 1959 A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
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09 Apr 1959 13th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics sweep Minn Lakers in 4 games Boston Celtics wins 8th straight title
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09 Apr 1959 Baltimore Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs. Washingston Senators)
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09 Apr 1959 Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot
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09 Apr 1959 NASA names 1st 7 Astronauts for Project Mercury
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09 Apr 1959 Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
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10 Apr 1959 Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, marries Michiko.
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10 Apr 1959 Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda
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11 Apr 1959 "Jamaica" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 558 performances
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11 Apr 1959 Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale hits his 2nd Opening Day homerun
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11 Apr 1959 Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory
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12 Apr 1959 13th Tony Awards J B & Redhead win
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12 Apr 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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12 Apr 1959 France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria
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13 Apr 1959 Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
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13 Apr 1959 Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics from voting for communists
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13 Apr 1959 USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit
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14 Apr 1959 (Robert) Taft Memorial Bell Tower dedicated in Washington DC
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14 Apr 1959 KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines IA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Apr 1959 Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour
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15 Apr 1959 US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles resigns
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16 Apr 1959 "Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 44 performances
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16 Apr 1959 New York Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard
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16 Apr 1959 Phillies' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit
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16 Apr 1959 Datu Abdul Rozak inaugurated as premier of Malaysia federation
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18 Apr 1959 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1
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18 Apr 1959 Stanley Cup Montr
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19 Apr 1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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19 Apr 1959 Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails
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20 Apr 1959 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42
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21 Apr 1959 1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod
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21 Apr 1959 Alf Dean (using a rod and reel) hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" great white shark (largest fish ever caught on a rod)
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22 Apr 1959 Chicago White Sox beat Kansas City Athletics 20-6, in 1 inning Sox score 11 runs on 1 hit, 10 walks, & 3 errors
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22 Apr 1959 New York Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Washington Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings
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23 Apr 1959 "Destry Rides Again" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 472 performances
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23 Apr 1959 1st heliport in Britain opens in London
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24 Apr 1959 Netherlands Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)
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24 Apr 1959 WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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25 Apr 1959 The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
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25 Apr 1959 St Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping
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26 Apr 1959 Cuba invades Panam
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26 Apr 1959 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
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27 Apr 1959 "Today" show goes abroard 1st time (Paris France)
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27 Apr 1959 Liu Sjau-chi elected President of China PR
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27 Apr 1959 "Today" show goes abroad for the 1st time (Paris France)
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27 Apr 1959 Liu Sjau-chi elected President of People's Rebublic of China
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28 Apr 1959 KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
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28 Apr 1959 KPLR TV channel 11 in Saint Louis MO (IND) begins broadcasting
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01 May 1959 Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
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01 May 1959 West Germany introduces 5 day work week
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01 May 1959 White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR
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02 May 1959 85th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Tomy Lee wins in 2:02.2
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03 May 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament
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04 May 1959 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como and Ella Fitzgerald win
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04 May 1959 The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
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06 May 1959 Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing ships
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08 May 1959 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship. 200 drown just yards from shore
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09 May 1959 Dorothy Rigney, husband John, and Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox
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10 May 1959 Soviet forces arrive in Afghanistan
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10 May 1959 Giants Jim Hearn allows 2 runs against Pirates, game is suspended, Hearn is released & charged with loss 2 months after his retirement
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10 May 1959 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Howard Johnson Golf Invitational
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11 May 1959 "Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" by Byrnes and Connie Stevens hits #4
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11 May 1959 Elvis Presley's 1st entry on UK charts with "Heartbreak Hotel"
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11 May 1959 Rodgers & Barer's musical "Once Upon a Mattress" premieres in NYC
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11 May 1959 Yankee catcher Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games ends
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12 May 1959 "Nervous Set" opens at Henry Miller's Theater NYC for 23 performances
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12 May 1959 Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher)
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13 May 1959 Kraft Music Hall with Milton Berle, last airs on NBC-TV
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15 May 1959 100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst & Williams Teams reenact the original contest
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16 May 1959 85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57
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16 May 1959 WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
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17 May 1959 Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122
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18 May 1959 "Judy" by David Seville hits #86
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18 May 1959 "Russian Band Stand" by Spencer and Spencer hits #91
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18 May 1959 Launch of the National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea.
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18 May 1959 "Castin' My Spell" by Johnny Otis Show hits #52
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18 May 1959 "Judy" by David Seville hits #86
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18 May 1959 "Russian Band Stand" by Spencer & Spencer hits #91
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19 May 1959 Jan de Quay becomes Premier of the Netherlands
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19 May 1959 The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
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20 May 1959 Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon"
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20 May 1959 Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship
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20 May 1959 Shah of Persia visits Netherlands
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20 May 1959 Yankees sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940
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21 May 1959 "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances
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21 May 1959 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens
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22 May 1959 Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes 1st black general-major in USAF
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23 May 1959 "Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 44 performances
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23 May 1959 Presbyterian church accepts women preachers
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24 May 1959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills PA)
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24 May 1959 Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England
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25 May 1959 Khrushchev visits Angola
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25 May 1959 Supreme Court rules that Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing is unconstitutional
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26 May 1959 Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th
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28 May 1959 Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts
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28 May 1959 Johnson & Bart's musical "Lock Up Your Daughters" premieres in London
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28 May 1959 Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
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29 May 1959 Charles de Gaulle forms French Government
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30 May 1959 "First Impressions" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 84 performances
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30 May 1959 The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham.
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30 May 1959 "Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater NYC after 23 performances
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30 May 1959 Iraq terminates military assistance pact with US due to neutrality
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30 May 1959 President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
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30 May 1959 President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
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30 May 1959 World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England
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31 May 1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Cavalier Golf Open
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01 Jun 1959 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area
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01 Jun 1959 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
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02 Jun 1959 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid", San Francisco
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03 Jun 1959 1st class graduates from Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado
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03 Jun 1959 1st US Air Force Academy graduation
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03 Jun 1959 Eisenhower routes Canadian Premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon
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03 Jun 1959 Real Madrid wins 4th Europe Cup 1
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03 Jun 1959 Singapore adopts constitution
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03 Jun 1959 Singapore was declared a self-governing state even though it was still a part of the British Empire.
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05 Jun 1959 Bob Dylan graduates Hibbing HS in Minnesota
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05 Jun 1959 The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
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07 Jun 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
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07 Jun 1959 KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW)
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08 Jun 1959 1st official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Florida)
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08 Jun 1959 X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
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08 Jun 1959 The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
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09 Jun 1959 1st ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)
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09 Jun 1959 The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
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10 Jun 1959 Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive HRs in 1 game
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11 Jun 1959 Postmaster General bans D.H. Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover
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12 Jun 1959 San Francisco Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game
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13 Jun 1959 "Sammy Kaye Show, " last airs on ABC-TV
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13 Jun 1959 59th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot Golf Club - New York
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13 Jun 1959 91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6
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14 Jun 1959 Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
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14 Jun 1959 A group of Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of overthrowing the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
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17 Jun 1959 Eamon de Valera elected President of Ireland
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18 Jun 1959 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
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19 Jun 1959 Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Sec of Comm
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20 Jun 1959 A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
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22 Jun 1959 "Along Came Jones" by Coasters peaks at #9
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22 Jun 1959 "Class" by Chubby Checker peaks at #38
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22 Jun 1959 Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage
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22 Jun 1959 Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games
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22 Jun 1959 Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax)
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22 Jun 1959 Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
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23 Jun 1959 Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
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23 Jun 1959 A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people.
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26 Jun 1959 Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavywgt boxing title
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26 Jun 1959 Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower open St. Lawrence Seaway
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26 Jun 1959 The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
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26 Jun 1959 Ingemar Johansson of Sweden defeats Floyd Patterson as boxing champ
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27 Jun 1959 "West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 performances
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27 Jun 1959 Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game
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28 Jun 1959 Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants 6-0)
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29 Jun 1959 Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, and peace, in charity"
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29 Jun 1959 Pope John XXIII encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity"
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30 Jun 1959 During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time
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01 Jul 1959 Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany
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01 Jul 1959 World Refugee Year begins
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01 Jul 1959 WVTV TV channel 18 in Milwaukee, WI (IND) begins broadcasting
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01 Jul 1959 The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.
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01 Jul 1959 Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
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02 Jul 1959 "Plan 9 From Outer Space, " one of the worse films ever, premieres
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02 Jul 1959 Prince Albert marries Princess Paola in Brussels
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03 Jul 1959 73rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Alex Olmedo beats Rod Laver (64 63 64)
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03 Jul 1959 88th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 284 at Muirfield Gullane
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04 Jul 1959 66th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Darlene Hard (64 63)
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04 Jul 1959 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
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05 Jul 1959 Indonesia restores constitution
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06 Jul 1959 5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
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06 Jul 1959 Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic
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06 Jul 1959 WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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07 Jul 1959 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
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07 Jul 1959 Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
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09 Jul 1959 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Open
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09 Jul 1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
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12 Jul 1959 NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during ankee-Red Sox game
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14 Jul 1959 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach - Quincy, Massachusetts
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15 Jul 1959 The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
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17 Jul 1959 River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
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17 Jul 1959 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis
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17 Jul 1959 Dr Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old)
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17 Jul 1959 Tibet abolishes serfdom
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18 Jul 1959 1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)
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19 Jul 1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance
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21 Jul 1959 1st nuclear powered Merchant ship, NS Savannah, christened, Camden, New Jersey
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21 Jul 1959 Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green)
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21 Jul 1959 NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative.
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21 Jul 1959 Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
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21 Jul 1959 1st atomic powered merchant ship, Savannah, christened, Camden NJ
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22 Jul 1959 Earth gas found at Kolham (Slochteren) Groningen
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23 Jul 1959 VP Richard Nixon begins visit on USSR
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24 Jul 1959 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
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24 Jul 1959 VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"
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24 Jul 1959 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".
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25 Jul 1959 SR.N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over two hours.
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25 Jul 1959 Lloyd J. Old introduced BCG, a tuberculosis vaccine, into experimental cancer research as a way to stimulate non-specific resistance to tumor growth. BCG was FDA-approved in 1991 and is now widely used as a first line treatment for superficial bladder cancer.
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26 Jul 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open
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26 Jul 1959 C Hoffmeister discovers asteroid #2183
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27 Jul 1959 Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India vs. England on debut
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27 Jul 1959 William Shea announces he plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961
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28 Jul 1959 Great-Britain starts using postal codes
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28 Jul 1959 Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
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29 Jul 1959 First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
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30 Jul 1959 In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
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31 Jul 1959 1st exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
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01 Aug 1959 New Continental baseball league formed
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01 Aug 1959 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia
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01 Aug 1959 WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC / NBC) begins broadcasting
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02 Aug 1959 41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis Golf Club
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02 Aug 1959 Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples
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02 Aug 1959 San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 HRs
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03 Aug 1959 27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA
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03 Aug 1959 50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau
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03 Aug 1959 AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium)
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03 Aug 1959 Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
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04 Aug 1959 "Billy Barnes Revue" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 87 performances
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05 Aug 1959 42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record)
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05 Aug 1959 Chicago Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in Toronto
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07 Aug 1959 Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space
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07 Aug 1959 The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design, and was minted until 2008.
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07 Aug 1959 Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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11 Aug 1959 Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
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12 Aug 1959 Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa
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12 Aug 1959 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
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13 Aug 1959 Military satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)
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14 Aug 1959 26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)
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14 Aug 1959 Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
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14 Aug 1959 AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver & Houston
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16 Aug 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open
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16 Aug 1959 USSR introduces installment buying
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17 Aug 1959 USSR and Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor
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17 Aug 1959 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
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19 Aug 1959 Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
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19 Aug 1959 Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League
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19 Aug 1959 Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
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20 Aug 1959 Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months
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21 Aug 1959 Hawaii becomes 50th US state
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22 Aug 1959 Cin Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs
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23 Aug 1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
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24 Aug 1959 England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India
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24 Aug 1959 Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
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31 Aug 1959 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)
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31 Aug 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
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31 Aug 1959 Australia defeats US for tennis' Davis Cup
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02 Sep 1959 US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
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05 Sep 1959 Washingston Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
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06 Sep 1959 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
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08 Sep 1959 The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
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11 Sep 1959 "Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements
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11 Sep 1959 Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans
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11 Sep 1959 Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
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11 Sep 1959 Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0
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12 Sep 1959 Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
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12 Sep 1959 The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
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12 Sep 1959 "Bonanza" premiers
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12 Sep 1959 Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the Moon
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13 Sep 1959 73rd US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64)
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13 Sep 1959 79th US Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64)
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13 Sep 1959 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
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13 Sep 1959 USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body
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14 Sep 1959 WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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14 Sep 1959 The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
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15 Sep 1959 Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
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15 Sep 1959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
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16 Sep 1959 President De Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination
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16 Sep 1959 The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
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17 Sep 1959 59th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
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17 Sep 1959 Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit
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17 Sep 1959 Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan & Korea
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18 Sep 1959 Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
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19 Sep 1959 Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
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19 Sep 1959 Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland
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20 Sep 1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Links Golf Invitation Open
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21 Sep 1959 600 Indian Dutch emigrate to US
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22 Sep 1959 Chicago White Sox clinch the AL pennant
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23 Sep 1959 Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
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23 Sep 1959 The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia's first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
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25 Sep 1959 Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley (37) and David Brown (43) wed
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25 Sep 1959 Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
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26 Sep 1959 Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty
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26 Sep 1959 San Francisco Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0
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26 Sep 1959 Vera, Japan hit by a typhoon; about 5,000 die
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26 Sep 1959 Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
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27 Sep 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open
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27 Sep 1959 Braves and Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68)
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27 Sep 1959 Nearly 5,000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
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27 Sep 1959 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit
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27 Sep 1959 Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, kills nearly 5,000
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28 Sep 1959 "Hennesey, " debuts on CBS-TV
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28 Sep 1959 Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around the Earth
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29 Sep 1959 "Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis, " debuts on CBS-TV
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29 Sep 1959 "Philip Marlowe, " debuts on ABC-TV
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29 Sep 1959 Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, and take NL pennant
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29 Sep 1959 Little Anthony and the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop"
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29 Sep 1959 Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
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01 Oct 1959 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature a New York team (LA vs. Chic)
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02 Oct 1959 The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
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03 Oct 1959 13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal
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04 Oct 1959 1st World Series game played west of St. Louis (in LA)
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04 Oct 1959 Dmitri Sjostakovitch 1st Cello concert premieres in Leningrad
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04 Oct 1959 LA Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394
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04 Oct 1959 Netherlands beats Belgium 9-1
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06 Oct 1959 Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
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06 Oct 1959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
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07 Oct 1959 "Happy Town" opens at 84th St. Theater NYC for 5 performances
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07 Oct 1959 U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
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08 Oct 1959 "At the Drop of a Hat" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 performances
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08 Oct 1959 Conservatives win British election
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08 Oct 1959 LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
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09 Oct 1959 1st phone call between auto and plane (Delaware)
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09 Oct 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton
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10 Oct 1959 "Happy Town" closes at 84th St. Theater NYC after 5 performances
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10 Oct 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
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10 Oct 1959 Pan Am begins regular flights around World
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11 Oct 1959 KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
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12 Oct 1959 At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
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14 Oct 1959 WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Oct 1959 "Untouchables" premieres
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15 Oct 1959 KNDO TV channel 23 in Yakima, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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15 Oct 1959 "Untouchables" premieres
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17 Oct 1959 "Billy Barnes Revue" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 87 performances
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17 Oct 1959 Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
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19 Oct 1959 Florence Henderson joins the Today Show panel
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20 Oct 1959 Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise
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20 Oct 1959 WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville, MS (ABC) 1st broadcast
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21 Oct 1959 Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
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21 Oct 1959 Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in Kansas City and New York
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21 Oct 1959 In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens to the public.
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21 Oct 1959 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
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21 Oct 1959 Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC)
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22 Oct 1959 "Take Me Along" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 448 performances
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23 Oct 1959 Chinese troops move into India, 17 die
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27 Oct 1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
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28 Oct 1959 Buffalo Bills enter the AFL
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29 Oct 1959 10 nation soccer league to play all games on New York Randalls Is, announced
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31 Oct 1959 USSR and Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam
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31 Oct 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
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01 Nov 1959 1st NHL goalie to wear a hockey mask (Jacques Plante)
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01 Nov 1959 Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Baltimore
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01 Nov 1959 Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo
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01 Nov 1959 WOV-AM in NYC changes call letters to WADO
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01 Nov 1959 Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.
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01 Nov 1959 In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.
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02 Nov 1959 "Girls against the Boys" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 performances
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02 Nov 1959 Charles Van Doren confesses, TV quiz show-"21, " was fixed
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02 Nov 1959 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.
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02 Nov 1959 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.
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04 Nov 1959 Ernie Banks, Cubs shortstop, wins 2nd consecutive NL MVP
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05 Nov 1959 AFL announced with 8 teams
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08 Nov 1959 KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
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10 Nov 1959 Corinne Rottschaeffer elected Miss World
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11 Nov 1959 1st episode of "Rocky & His Friends" airs
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11 Nov 1959 1st episode of "Rocky & His Friends" airs
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11 Nov 1959 Seals Stadium in San Francisco, demolished
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14 Nov 1959 "Girls against the Boys" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 16 performances
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14 Nov 1959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)
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15 Nov 1959 Robert White and Perry Smith kill Clutters
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15 Nov 1959 Richard Hickock & Perry Smith kill Clutters
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16 Nov 1959 "Sound of Music" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 1443 performances
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16 Nov 1959 "Sound of Music" opens on Broadway
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17 Nov 1959 Giants slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie of Year
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17 Nov 1959 William Shea shows proposed NYC stadium with transparent roof
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17 Nov 1959 De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond
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18 Nov 1959 Washingston Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year
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19 Nov 1959 "Rocky & His Friends" debuts on ABC
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19 Nov 1959 Ford cancels the Edsel
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20 Nov 1959 WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal
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20 Nov 1959 UN adopts the declaration of children's rights
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21 Nov 1959 Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
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22 Nov 1959 Boston Patriots enter the AFL
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22 Nov 1959 NY Titans (AFL) 1st draft choice (George Izo, QB, Notre Dame)
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23 Nov 1959 "Fiorello!" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 796 performances
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23 Nov 1959 "Fiorello!" premiers on Broadway
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25 Nov 1959 "Once Upon a Mattress" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 460 performances
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28 Nov 1959 47th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 21-7
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28 Nov 1959 KOMC (now KSNK) TV channel 8 in McCook - Oberlin, NB (NBC) begins
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28 Nov 1959 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Princeps Pastorum
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30 Nov 1959 Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL
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01 Dec 1959 12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica
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01 Dec 1959 25th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Cannon, LSU (HB)
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01 Dec 1959 The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space
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01 Dec 1959 Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
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02 Dec 1959 Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
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03 Dec 1959 State of emergency on Cyprus ends
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03 Dec 1959 The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
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05 Dec 1959 Intikhab Alam bowls Colin McDonald with 1st ball in Tests
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07 Dec 1959 "Saratoga" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
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08 Dec 1959 Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta
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11 Dec 1959 Yankees trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri
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12 Dec 1959 UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
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13 Dec 1959 Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus.
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13 Dec 1959 Archbishop Makarios elected 1st President of Cyprus
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14 Dec 1959 J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513 meters
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14 Dec 1959 Archbishop Makarios proclaimed President of Cyprus
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15 Dec 1959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"
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15 Dec 1959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"
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16 Dec 1959 Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48
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17 Dec 1959 "On The Beach, " is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain
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17 Dec 1959 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach)
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18 Dec 1959 Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of New York Titans (AFL)
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19 Dec 1959 1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0
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20 Dec 1959 Unknown attackers murder the Walker family in Osprey, Florida.
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20 Dec 1959 Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India vs Australia at Kanpur
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21 Dec 1959 10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7")
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21 Dec 1959 Citizens of Deerfield IL block building of interracial housing
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21 Dec 1959 Shah of Persia marries Farah Diba
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21 Dec 1959 Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)
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22 Dec 1959 New York Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
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22 Dec 1959 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Fort Worth
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25 Dec 1959 A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swastikas
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25 Dec 1959 Richard Starkey [Ringo Starr] receives his 1st drum set
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25 Dec 1959 Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market
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27 Dec 1959 Baltimore Colts beat the New York Giants 31-16 in NFL championship game
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29 Dec 1959 Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.
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29 Dec 1959 The Lisbon Metro begins operation.
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29 Dec 1959 Saul Levitt's "Andersonville Trial" premieres in New York NY
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30 Dec 1959 The George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned
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