Notable Historical Events - 1959
1959 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista flees Cuba for the Dominican Republic |
Jan 1 |
Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community |
Jan 1 |
Rohan Kanhai completes 256 v India at Calcutta |
Jan 2 |
USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit |
Jan 3 |
Alaska admitted as 49th US state |
Jan 4 |
Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity |
Jan 5 |
"Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV |
Jan 5 |
Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter" |
Jan 7 |
US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government |
Jan 7 |
American gangster Meyer Lansky flees Cuba for the Bahamas due to the Cuban Revolution and rise of Fidel Castro |
Jan 8 |
Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as pres of France's 5th Republic |
Jan 9 |
"Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV |
Jan 9 |
Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die |
Jan 9 |
Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis, to become NWA champ |
Jan 11 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke |
Jan 11 |
Hanif Mohammad completes 499 for Karachi, then 1st class world record |
Jan 11 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mayfair Golf Open |
Jan 11 |
NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 28-21 |
Jan 12 |
KOED TV channel 11 in Tulsa, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 13 |
French President Charles de Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 Algerians sentenced to death |
Jan 13 |
King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence |
Jan 17 |
"Say, Darling" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 332 performances |
Jan 18 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
Jan 20 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' Moscow-Tsjerjomoesjki, premieres in Moscow |
Jan 22 |
USAF concludes that less than 1% of UFOs are unknown objects |
Jan 24 |
"Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 38 perfs |
Jan 24 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's comedy "Cheryomushk," premieres in Moscow |
Jan 24 |
WHCT TV channel 18 in Hartford, CT (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jan 25 |
1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to NY for $301) |
Jan 25 |
Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council |
Jan 26 |
Italy government of Fanfani resigns |
Jan 26 |
KOKH TV channel 25 in Oklahoma City, OK (IND/PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 28 |
Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US |
Jan 29 |
Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released |
Jan 30 |
Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test v England, Adelaide Oval |
Jan 30 |
Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh," premieres |
Jan 31 |
Joe Cronin signs 7 year pact to become head of AL |
Feb 1 |
Swiss men vote against voting rights for women |
Feb 1 |
Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit) |
Feb 1 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss |
Feb 1 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins |
Feb 1 |
WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Feb 1 |
Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Havana Golf Tournament |
Feb 1 |
Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
Feb 2 |
Buddy Holly's last performance |
Feb 2 |
Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers |
Feb 3 |
American Airlines Electra crashes in NY's East River, killing 65 |
Feb 3 |
"The Day the Music Died" plane crash kills musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, J. P. Richardson and pilot near Clear Lake Iowa. |
Feb 4 |
Israel begins exporting copper ore |
Feb 5 |
"Redhead" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 455 performances |
Feb 5 |
Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide |
Feb 6 |
1st successful test-fire of Titan ICBM |
Feb 6 |
Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow |
Feb 7 |
"Whoop-Up" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 56 performances |
Feb 7 |
Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution |
Feb 7 |
Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air) |
Feb 7 |
Dorothy Rigney sells White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M |
Feb 9 |
Coasters's "Charlie Brown" peaks at #2 |
Feb 10 |
Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone" |
Feb 10 |
Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265 |
Feb 11 |
Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi) |
Feb 13 |
Barbie doll goes on sale |
Feb 13 |
Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns |
Feb 14 |
$3.6 million heroin seizure in NYC |
Feb 15 |
Antonio Segni forms Italian government |
Feb 15 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Tournament |
Feb 16 |
Fidel Castro names himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista |
Feb 16 |
Leonard Spigelgass' "Majority of One," premieres in NYC |
Feb 17 |
1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg |
Feb 19 |
Britain, Turkey & Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence |
Feb 19 |
Gabon adopts its constitution |
Feb 19 |
USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), NM |
Feb 20 |
The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate. |
Feb 22 |
1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH) |
Feb 23 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open |
Feb 23 |
KVIE TV channel 6 in Sacramento-Stockton, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 27 |
Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players |
Feb 27 |
Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers |
Feb 28 |
"Goldilocks" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 perfs |
Feb 28 |
Ice Dance Championship at Colo Springs USA won by Denny & Jones of GRB |
Feb 28 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul of CAN |
Feb 28 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colo Spr won by Carol Heiss USA |
Feb 28 |
Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit |
Feb 28 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colo Spr won by David Jenkins USA |
Feb 28 |
NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players |
Mar 1 |
Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years |
Mar 1 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament |
Mar 3 |
1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched |
Mar 3 |
Brit government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis |
Mar 3 |
SF Giant's rename their stadium Candlestick Park |
Mar 4 |
US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet |
Mar 5 |
Iran & US sign economic & military treaty |
Mar 6 |
11th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr win |
Mar 6 |
Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles) |
Mar 7 |
"Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 925 perfs |
Mar 7 |
1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow) |
Mar 7 |
West Indies all out 76 v Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34 |
Mar 8 |
Groucho, Chico & Harpo's final TV appearance together |
Mar 8 |
KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 8 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
Mar 8 |
Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq |
Mar 9 |
"Juno" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 16 performances |
Mar 9 |
1st known radar contact is made with Venus |
Mar 9 |
Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold |
Mar 10 |
Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck |
Mar 10 |
Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" premieres in NYC |
Mar 10 |
Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet |
Mar 11 |
"Raisin in the Sun", 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens |
Mar 11 |
Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little Bit" |
Mar 12 |
Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections |
Mar 12 |
US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood |
Mar 15 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
Mar 15 |
Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens on Broadway |
Mar 15 |
Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s |
Mar 15 |
WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Mar 16 |
Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty |
Mar 17 |
Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations |
Mar 17 |
Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India |
Mar 18 |
Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws |
Mar 18 |
President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill |
Mar 19 |
"1st Impressions" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 84 performances |
Mar 21 |
"Juno" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 16 performances |
Mar 21 |
21st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: California beats W Va 71-70 |
Mar 22 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament |
Mar 24 |
Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact |
Mar 24 |
The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita. |
Mar 25 |
Bill White traded to St Louis for pitchers Sam Jones & Don Choate |
Mar 25 |
French pres De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary |
Mar 26 |
Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad v WI age 15 yrs 124 days |
Mar 28 |
11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government & installs Panchen Lama |
Mar 29 |
"Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe & Jack Lemmon premieres |
Mar 29 |
Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore |
Mar 29 |
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Mar 30 |
WNED TV channel 17 in Buffalo, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 31 |
Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India |
Apr 4 |
Fed of Mali, consisting of Senegal & French Sudan (dissolved 1960) |
Apr 5 |
23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall Jr wins, shooting a 284 |
Apr 6 |
31st Academy Awards - "Gigi", Susan Hayward & David Niven win |
Apr 7 |
Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years |
Apr 7 |
Radar 1st bounced off Sun, Stanford Calif |
Apr 9 |
Balt Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Wash Senators) |
Apr 9 |
Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot |
Apr 9 |
NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury |
Apr 9 |
13th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics sweep Minn Lakers in 4 games Boston Celtics wins 8th straight title |
Apr 11 |
"Jamaica" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 558 performances |
Apr 11 |
Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale hits his 2nd Opening Day HR |
Apr 11 |
Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory |
Apr 12 |
13th Tony Awards: J B & Redhead win |
Apr 12 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
Apr 12 |
France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria |
Apr 13 |
USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit |
Apr 13 |
Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
Apr 13 |
Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists |
Apr 14 |
(Robert) Taft Memorial Bell Tower dedicated in Wash DC |
Apr 14 |
KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines, IA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 15 |
Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour |
Apr 15 |
US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles resigns |
Apr 16 |
"Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 44 perfs |
Apr 16 |
Datu Abdul Rozak inaugurated as premier of Malaysia federation |
Apr 16 |
NY Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard |
Apr 16 |
Phils' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit |
Apr 18 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1 |
Apr 19 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
Apr 19 |
Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails |
Apr 20 |
63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42 |
Apr 21 |
1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod |
Apr 21 |
Alf Dean using a rod & reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark |
Apr 22 |
Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings |
Apr 22 |
Chicago White Sox beat KC Athletics 20-6, in 1 inning Sox score 11 runs on 1 hit, 10 walks, & 3 errors |
Apr 23 |
"Destry Rides Again" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 472 perfs |
Apr 23 |
1st heliport in Britain opens in London |
Apr 24 |
Neth Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier) |
Apr 24 |
WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Apr 25 |
St Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping |
Apr 26 |
Cuba invades Panama |
Apr 26 |
Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open |
Apr 27 |
"Today" show goes abroard 1st time (Paris France) |
Apr 27 |
Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China People's Republic |
Apr 27 |
The last Canadian missionary leaves the People's Republic of China. |
Apr 28 |
KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 28 |
KPLR TV channel 11 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting |
May 1 |
Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
May 1 |
West Germany introduces 5 day work week |
May 1 |
White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR |
May 2 |
85th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Tomy Lee wins in 2:02.2 |
May 3 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament |
May 3 |
Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader |
May 4 |
1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win |
May 4 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB) |
May 6 |
Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing ships |
May 7 |
"Roy Campanella Night" Largest baseball crowd (93,103 in LA Coliseum) sees Dodgers' Sandy Koufax beat Yankees 6-2 in exhibition |
May 8 |
3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship. 200 drown just yards from shore |
May 9 |
Dorothy Rigney, husband John, & Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox |
May 10 |
Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Howard Johnson Golf Invitational |
May 10 |
Soviet forces arrive in Afghanistan |
May 10 |
Giants Jim Hearn allows 2 runs against Pirates, game is suspended, Hearn is released & charged with loss 2 months after his retirement |
May 11 |
"Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" by Byrnes & Connie Stevens hits #4 |
May 11 |
Rodgers & Barer's musical "Once upon a mattress" premieres in NYC |
May 11 |
Yankee catcher Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games ends |
May 12 |
"Nervous Set" opens at Henry Miller's Theater NYC for 23 performances |
May 13 |
Kraft Music Hall with Milton Berle last airs on NBC-TV |
May 15 |
100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst & Williams Teams reenact the original contest |
May 16 |
85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57 |
May 16 |
WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
May 17 |
Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122 |
May 18 |
"Castin' My Spell" by Johnny Otis Show hits #52 |
May 18 |
"Judy" by David Seville hits #86 |
May 18 |
"Russian Band Stand" by Spencer & Spencer hits #91 |
May 19 |
Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands |
May 19 |
The USS Triton, the first submarine with two nuclear reactors, is completed |
May 20 |
Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon" |
May 20 |
Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship |
May 20 |
Shah of Persia visits Netherlands |
May 20 |
Yanks sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940 |
May 21 |
"Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances |
May 21 |
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens |
May 22 |
Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes 1st black major general in US Air Force |
May 23 |
"Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 44 perfs |
May 24 |
1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills, Pa) |
May 24 |
Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in Great Britain |
May 25 |
Khrushchev visits Angola |
May 25 |
US Supreme Courtt rules Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional |
May 26 |
Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th |
May 28 |
Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts |
May 28 |
Johnson & Bart's musical "Lock up your daughters" premieres in London |
May 28 |
Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission |
May 29 |
Charles de Gaulle forms French government |
May 30 |
"First Impressions" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 84 performances |
May 30 |
"Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater NYC after 23 perfs |
May 30 |
Iraq terminates milt assistance pact with US due to neutrality |
May 30 |
Pres Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua |
May 30 |
Pres Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament |
May 30 |
World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes, England |
May 30 |
The Auckland Harbour Bridge is officially opened in Auckland, New Zealand. |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Rodger Ward wins in 3:40:47.470 (218.641 km/h) |
May 31 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Cavalier Golf Open |
Jun 1 |
2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area |
Jun 1 |
Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day) |
Jun 2 |
Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid", SF |
Jun 3 |
1st US Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado Springs, Colorado |
Jun 3 |
Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon |
Jun 3 |
Real Madrid wins 4th Europe Cup 1 |
Jun 3 |
Singapore adopts constitution |
Jun 5 |
Bob Dylan graduates from Hibbing High School in Minnesota |
Jun 5 |
The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in. |
Jun 7 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
Jun 7 |
KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW) |
Jun 8 |
1st official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Fla) |
Jun 8 |
X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m |
Jun 9 |
1st ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct) |
Jun 10 |
Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive HRs in 1 game |
Jun 11 |
Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US Court of Appeals in Mar 1960) |
Jun 12 |
SF Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game |
Jun 13 |
"Sammy Kaye Show" last airs on ABC-TV |
Jun 13 |
59th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot GC NY |
Jun 13 |
91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6 |
Jun 14 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open |
Jun 16 |
In South Africa, Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to Kwa Mashu, a newly established black township on the outskirts, is met with violent resistance. |
Jun 17 |
Eamon de Valera elected pres of Ireland |
Jun 18 |
1st telecast transmitted from England to US |
Jun 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. |
Jun 19 |
Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Secetary of Commerce |
Jun 22 |
"Along Came Jones" by Coasters peaks at #9 |
Jun 22 |
"Class" by Chubby Checker peaks at #38 |
Jun 22 |
Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games |
Jun 22 |
Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax) |
Jun 22 |
Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage |
Jun 22 |
Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
Jun 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). |
Jun 23 |
A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people. |
Jun 26 |
Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 26 |
Queen Elizabeth & President Eisenhower open St Lawrence Seaway |
Jun 27 |
"West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 perfs |
Jun 27 |
14th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright |
Jun 27 |
Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game |
Jun 28 |
Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants 6-0) |
Jun 29 |
Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity" |
Jun 30 |
During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time |
Jul 1 |
Heinrich Lubke elected pres of West-Germany |
Jul 1 |
Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany |
Jul 1 |
WVTV TV channel 18 in Milwaukee, WI (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jul 1 |
World Refugee Year begins |
Jul 1 |
The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference. |
Jul 2 |
"Plan 9 From Outer Space", one of the worse films ever, premieres |
Jul 3 |
73rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Alex Olmedo beats Rod Laver (6-4 6-3 6-4) |
Jul 3 |
88th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 284 at Muirfield Gullane |
Jul 4 |
66th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Darlene Hard (6-4 6-3) |
Jul 4 |
America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled |
Jul 4 |
Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony |
Jul 5 |
Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns |
Jul 5 |
Indonesia restores constitution |
Jul 5 |
Jack Gelber's "Connection" premieres in NYC |
Jul 6 |
5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
Jul 6 |
Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic |
Jul 6 |
WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jul 7 |
26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh |
Jul 9 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Open |
Jul 9 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament |
Jul 12 |
NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during ankee-Red Sox game |
Jul 14 |
USS Long Beach, first nuclear powered cruiser launched at Quincy, Mass |
Jul 15 |
The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history. |
Jul 17 |
2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis |
Jul 17 |
Tibet abolishes serfdom |
Jul 17 |
River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana) |
Jul 17 |
Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovers the partial skull of a new species of early human ancestor, Zinjanthropus boisei or 'Zinj' (now called Paranthropus boisei) that lived in Africa almost 2 million years ago |
Jul 18 |
African American William 'Bill' Wright is the 1st coloured person to win a major golf tournament (U.S. Amateur Public Links Championships) |
Jul 19 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance |
Jul 21 |
1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, named, Camden NJ |
Jul 21 |
Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green) |
Jul 22 |
Benjamin Britten's "Missa Brevis" in D premieres |
Jul 22 |
Earth gas found at Kolham (Slochteren) Groningen |
Jul 23 |
VP Richard Nixon begins visit on USSR |
Jul 24 |
500,000th Dutch TV set registered |
Jul 24 |
US VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate" |
Jul 25 |
SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours. |
Jul 26 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
Jul 27 |
Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut |
Jul 27 |
William Shea announces plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961 |
Jul 28 |
Great-Britain starts using postal codes |
Jul 28 |
Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress |
Jul 29 |
First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union. |
Jul 30 |
In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4 |
Jul 31 |
1st exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens |
Aug 1 |
New Continental baseball league formed |
Aug 1 |
Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia |
Aug 1 |
WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 2 |
41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC |
Aug 2 |
Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples |
Aug 2 |
SF Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 HRs |
Aug 3 |
27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA |
Aug 3 |
50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau |
Aug 3 |
AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium) |
Aug 4 |
"Billy Barnes Revue" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 87 perfs |
Aug 5 |
42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record) |
Aug 5 |
Chicago Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in Toronto |
Aug 7 |
Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space |
Aug 7 |
The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design |
Aug 12 |
1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island |
Aug 12 |
Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa |
Aug 13 |
US Military satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit) |
Aug 14 |
26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000) |
Aug 14 |
AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver & Houston |
Aug 16 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open |
Aug 16 |
USSR introduces installment buying |
Aug 17 |
7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park |
Aug 17 |
USSR & Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor |
Aug 18 |
Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be pres of Continental League |
Aug 19 |
Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ |
Aug 19 |
Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League |
Aug 19 |
Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit |
Aug 20 |
Belgium shortens military conscription to 12 months |
Aug 21 |
Hawaii becomes 50th US state |
Aug 22 |
Cin Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs |
Aug 23 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open |
Aug 24 |
England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India |
Aug 24 |
Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii) |
Aug 26 |
British Motor Corporation introduced the Morris Mini-Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis it was only 10 ft long but seated 4 passengers |
Aug 31 |
48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2) |
Aug 31 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
Aug 31 |
Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean's NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game |
Sep 2 |
US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris |
Sep 5 |
Wash Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd) |
Sep 6 |
Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
Sep 8 |
The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established. |
Sep 11 |
"Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements |
Sep 11 |
Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans |
Sep 11 |
Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4 |
Sep 11 |
Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0 |
Sep 12 |
"Bonanza" premieres on NBC-TV |
Sep 12 |
Janos Kádár becomes premier of Hungary |
Sep 12 |
Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon |
Sep 13 |
73rd US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64) |
Sep 13 |
79th US Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64) |
Sep 13 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open |
Sep 13 |
USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body |
Sep 14 |
Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon |
Sep 14 |
WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 15 |
Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit |
Sep 16 |
French President Charles de Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination |
Sep 17 |
59th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus |
Sep 17 |
Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit |
Sep 17 |
Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan & Korea |
Sep 18 |
Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit |
Sep 19 |
Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland |
Sep 20 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Links Golf Invitation Open |
Sep 21 |
600 Indian Dutch emigrate to US |
Sep 22 |
Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant |
Sep 23 |
1959 The M/S Princess of Tasmania Australia's first passenger RO/RO diesel ferry makes maiden voyage across Bass Strait. |
Sep 26 |
Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty |
Sep 26 |
SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0 |
Sep 26 |
Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, causing the deaths of 4,580 people with 658 missing |
Sep 27 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open |
Sep 27 |
Braves & Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68) |
Sep 27 |
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit |
Sep 28 |
"Hennesey" debuts on CBS-TV |
Sep 28 |
Edward Franklin Albee's "zoo story" premieres in Berlin |
Sep 28 |
Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around Earth |
Sep 29 |
"Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis" debuts on CBS-TV |
Sep 29 |
"Philip Marlowe" debuts on ABC-TV |
Sep 29 |
Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, & take NL pennant |
Sep 29 |
Little Anthony & the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop" |
Sep 29 |
Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution |
Oct 1 |
1st World Series since 1948 not to feature a NY team (LA vs Chic) |
Oct 2 |
Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS-TV |
Oct 3 |
13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal |
Oct 4 |
1st World Series game played west of St Louis (in LA) |
Oct 4 |
Cleveland Browns' Jim Brown makes club record 37 rushing attempts |
Oct 4 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch 1st Cello concert premieres in Leningrad |
Oct 4 |
LA Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394 |
Oct 4 |
Netherlands beats Belgium 9-1 |
Oct 4 |
USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side |
Oct 6 |
Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA) |
Oct 6 |
Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon |
Oct 7 |
"Happy Town" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances |
Oct 7 |
Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3 |
Oct 8 |
"At the Drop of a Hat" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 perfs |
Oct 8 |
Conservatives win British general election |
Oct 8 |
LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series |
Oct 9 |
Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England |
Oct 10 |
"Happy Town" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 5 performances |
Oct 10 |
Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki |
Oct 10 |
Pan Am begins regular flights around the world |
Oct 11 |
KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 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. |
Oct 14 |
WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 15 |
"Untouchables" premieres |
Oct 15 |
KNDO TV channel 23 in Yakima, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 17 |
"Billy Barnes Revue" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 87 perfs |
Oct 17 |
Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse |
Oct 17 |
Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' dedicated |
Oct 19 |
Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel |
Oct 19 |
William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in NYC |
Oct 20 |
Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise |
Oct 20 |
WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville, MS (ABC) 1st broadcast |
Oct 21 |
Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana |
Oct 21 |
Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC) |
Oct 21 |
Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in KC & NY |
Oct 22 |
Bob Merrill's musical "Take Me Along" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 448 performances |
Oct 23 |
Chinese troops move into India, 17 die |
Oct 24 |
US premier of D Sjostakovitch's 1st Cello concert |
Oct 27 |
Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico |
Oct 28 |
Buffalo Bills enter AFL |
Oct 28 |
Jean Genet's "Les Negres" premieres in Paris |
Oct 29 |
10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced |
Oct 31 |
Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to USA |
Oct 31 |
USSR & Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam |
Nov 1 |
Jacques Plante becomes the first goaltender to wear a mask during a game |
Nov 1 |
Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Balt |
Nov 1 |
Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo |
Nov 1 |
WOV-AM in NYC changes call letters to WADO |
Nov 2 |
"Girls against the Boys" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 perfs |
Nov 2 |
Charles Van Doren confesses that TV quiz show "21" was fixed |
Nov 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 |
Nov 3 |
David Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins Israeli parliamentary election |
Nov 4 |
Ernie Banks, Cubs shortstop, wins 2nd consecutive NL MVP |
Nov 5 |
AFL announced with 8 teams |
Nov 7 |
13th Ryder Cup: US wins 8½-3½ at Eldorado Golf Club (Indian Wells, California) |
Nov 8 |
KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast |
Nov 8 |
Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every seat |
Nov 10 |
Corinne Rottschaeffer of the Netherlands elected Miss World |
Nov 11 |
1st episode of "Rocky & His Friends" airs |
Nov 11 |
Seals Stadium in San Francisco, demolished |
Nov 12 |
White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP |
Nov 14 |
"Girls against the Boys" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 16 perfs |
Nov 14 |
Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii) |
Nov 15 |
Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith murder four members of the Clutter Family at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas (subject of Truman Capote book In Cold Blood). |
Nov 15 |
Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Wash 31-17 |
Nov 16 |
"Sound of Music" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 1443 perfs |
Nov 17 |
De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond |
Nov 17 |
Giants slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie of Year |
Nov 17 |
William Shea shows proposed NYC stadium with transparent roof |
Nov 18 |
Wash Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year |
Nov 19 |
"Rocky & His Friends" debuts on ABC |
Nov 19 |
Ford cancels Edsel |
Nov 20 |
UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights |
Nov 20 |
WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal |
Nov 21 |
Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet |
Nov 22 |
AFL's 1st draft - NY Titans choice George Izo, QB, Notre Dame |
Nov 22 |
Boston Patriots enters AFL |
Nov 23 |
"Fiorello!" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 796 performances |
Nov 25 |
"Once Upon a Mattress" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 460 performances |
Nov 28 |
47th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 21-7 |
Nov 28 |
KOMC (now KSNK) TV channel 8 in McCook - Oberlin, NB (NBC) begins |
Nov 28 |
Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Princeps Pastorum |
Nov 29 |
2nd Grammy Awards: Mack The Knife, Bobby Darin wins |
Nov 30 |
Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL |
Dec 1 |
12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica |
Dec 1 |
25th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Cannon, LSU (HB) |
Dec 1 |
The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space |
Dec 2 |
Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus |
Dec 3 |
State of emergency on Cyprus ends |
Dec 5 |
Intikhab Alam bowls Colin McDonald with 1st ball in Tests |
Dec 7 |
"Saratoga" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances |
Dec 8 |
Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta |
Dec 8 |
President Eisenhower watches Pakistan v Aust Test Cricket at Karachi |
Dec 11 |
Yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri |
Dec 11 |
Emilio G. Segrè publishes his discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 |
Dec 12 |
UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established |
Dec 13 |
Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus |
Dec 14 |
Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus |
Dec 14 |
J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513m |
Dec 15 |
Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me" |
Dec 16 |
Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48 |
Dec 17 |
"On The Beach" is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain |
Dec 17 |
1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach) |
Dec 18 |
Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of NY Titans (AFL) |
Dec 19 |
1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0 |
Dec 20 |
Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India v Australia at Kanpur |
Dec 21 |
10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7") |
Dec 21 |
Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing |
Dec 21 |
Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988) |
Dec 22 |
Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Fort Worth |
Dec 22 |
NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask |
Dec 25 |
A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas |
Dec 25 |
Richard Starkey receives his 1st drum set |
Dec 25 |
Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market |
Dec 27 |
Balt Colts beat NY Giants 31-16 in NFL championship game |
Dec 29 |
Saul Levitt's "Andersonville Trial," premieres in NYC |
Dec 30 |
George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned |
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