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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.
56 years ago today on Oct. 21, 1959, the Guggenheim Museum sparked the curiosity of millions when its abstract design popped up on New York City's elite Fifth Avenue.
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 1959 Pashtun Revolt in Kandahar [13] Afghanistan: Pashtun rebels 1959 1959 Upper Yafa disturbances [14] United Kingdom. Upper Yafa; Rebels. Supported by: Yemen. 1959 1959 Cuban invasion of Panama [15] Panama Cuba: 1959 1959 1959 Viqueque rebellion Portugal: Timorese rebels 1959 1959 Cuban invasion of the Dominican Republic [16] Dominican ...
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The table starts counting approximately 10,000 years before present, or around 8,000 BC, during the middle Greenlandian, about 1,700 years after the end of the Younger Dryas and 1,800 years before the 8.2-kiloyear event. From the beginning of the early modern period until the 20th century, world population has been characterized by a rapid growth.
The Boy Scouts of America was founded 115 years ago Saturday by Chicago ... of secret "perversion files" on suspected child molesters from 1959 to ... appeared on USA TODAY: ...
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich "The product name Kodachrome resurfaced in the 1930s with a three-color chromogenic process, a variant that we still use today," Osterman continues.