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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 November 2023, they are the final two states admitted to the union.
January 4, 1959: Luna-1 enters orbit around Sun, becomes the first man-made "planet" January 8, 1959: Fidel Castro arrives in Havana January 25, 1959: Boeing 707 begins service January 3, 1959: 49th state added to the U.S.A. The following events occurred in January 1959:
September 14, 1959: Soviet-launched Lunik 2 becomes first man-made object to land on Moon [1] September 27, 1959: Soviet Premier Khrushchev at White House to complete 11-day U.S. visit as guest of U.S. President Eisenhower September 18, 1959: The "jetway", first jet bridge, opens at Atlanta airport. The following events occurred in September 1959:
February 3, 1959, "The Day the Music Died": Buddy Holly (left), J.P. Richardson (middle), and Ritchie Valens (right) killed in plane crash (below) American singers J.P. Richardson, 28, " The Big Bopper ", Buddy Holly , 22, and Ritchie Valens , 17, were killed in the crash of a private plane on their way to Fargo, North Dakota .
The Geneva talks that began on May 11 halted action on the ultimatum. The late U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who had said in 1958, "We are not afraid of May 27, 1959", was buried on that date, and the participants in the Geneva talks, including Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, attended the ceremonies at Arlington. [76]