1959 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1959?
- February 6, 1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
- February 8, 1959 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Pig in Chinese astrology.
- February 17, 1959 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
- 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 9, 1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the “Mercury Seven”.
- April 27, 1959 – The last Canadian missionary leaves the People’s Republic of China.
- June 5, 1959 – The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
- June 8, 1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
- June 9, 1959 – The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
- June 14, 1959 – Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
- June 23, 1959 – A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people.
- July 24, 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”.
- August 14, 1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
- September 18, 1959 – Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
- September 23, 1959 – The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia’s first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
- October 2, 1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
- December 3, 1959 – The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
- December 29, 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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