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 3, 1959 – Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
- 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 9, 1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
- February 11, 1959 – The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
- April 1, 1959 – Iakovos is enthroned as Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America.
- April 25, 1959 – The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
- June 9, 1959 – The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
- 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 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 12, 1959 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
- September 19, 1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
- October 2, 1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
- October 7, 1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
- October 21, 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
- November 19, 1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
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