1959 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1959?
- January 1, 1959 – Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro’s forces during the Cuban Revolution.
- January 2, 1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union
- January 22, 1959 – Knox Mine Disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston City, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners are killed.
- February 6, 1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
- February 8, 1959 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Pig in Chinese astrology.
- February 9, 1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
- February 16, 1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
- February 28, 1959 – Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object to achieve a polar orbit, is launched.
- March 18, 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
- March 24, 1959 – The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.
- April 27, 1959 – The last Canadian missionary leaves the People’s Republic of China.
- June 23, 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.
- July 1, 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.
- July 15, 1959 – The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
- July 29, 1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
- August 17, 1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.
- September 8, 1959 – The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
- September 18, 1959 – Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
- October 31, 1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.
- November 23, 1959 – General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a “Europe, ”from the Atlantic to the Urals.\"
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