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1959 was a common year ... The first Ten Tors event is held on Dartmoor. ... [17] and goes on to become the most widely manufactured device in history. ...
The 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake in southwest Montana kills 28. Miles Davis' influential jazz album Kind of Blue is released. August 21 — Hawaii is admitted as the 50th and last U.S. state (see History of Hawaii). August 22 — American Football League founded by Lamar Hunt [2] August 28–September 7 — The 1959 Pan American Games are held ...
1959 – Cuban Revolution; 1959 – Landrum–Griffin Act, a labor law that regulates labor unions' internal affairs and their officials' relationships with employers, becomes law; 1959 – Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th U.S. states; as of January 2025, they are the final two states admitted to the union.
1959 in the United States by state or territory (53 C) 1959 events in the United States by month (12 C) 1959 disestablishments in the United States (33 C, 12 P)
The final tally would show the population of the USSR in 1959 to be 208,826,650. In Montgomery, Alabama, Circuit Judge George C. Wallace was cited for contempt of court for defying an order by U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. to turn over voter registration records to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Judge Wallace, who would become ...
London County Council completes the first portion of Alton Estate in Roehampton, southwest London, considered a model of post-war public housing. [27]"Aluminium War": concluding the first hostile takeover of a public company in the UK, Tube Investments (under its chairman Ivan Stedeford), allied with Reynolds Metals of the United States and advised by Siegmund Warburg of S. G. Warburg & Co ...
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June 8, 1959: 3,000 letters sent by U.S. missile June 26, 1959: Johannson of Sweden KO's heavyweight champion Patterson June 9, 1959: USS George Washington, first ballistic missile sub, is launched June 3, 1959: The original Air Force Academy class graduates. The following events occurred in June 1959: