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1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1959th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 959th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1950s decade.
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 ...
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 ...
June 11: 1959 Ontario general election: Leslie Frost's PCs win a fifth consecutive majority; June 18: 1959 Alberta general election: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a seventh consecutive majority; June 20: The Escuminac Disaster results in 35 fishermen drowned or missing and 22 fishing boats sunk.
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 [update] , they are the final two states admitted to the union.
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 ...
15 Little-Known Facts About Denzel Washington. Nakeisha Campbell. November 8, 2024 at 7:00 AM. Denzel Washington has come a long way since his acting debut in the '70s.
October 3, 1959: Theodore Roosevelt's daughter at the submarine christening The ballistic missile submarine , USS Theodore Roosevelt , was launched from Mare Island . Alice Roosevelt Longworth , the 75-year-old daughter of the 26th American president, broke the champagne across the submarine hull on her second attempt.