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Everything about 1959 totally explainedThe year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
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Events of 1959
January
January 3
January 4
January 6 - Fidel Castro arrives in Havana.
January 7 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
January 8 - Charles De Gaulle inaugurated as the first president of French Fifth Republic.
January 12 - The Caves of Nerja were discovered in Spain.
January 13 - Cuban communists execute 71 supporters of Fulgencio Batista.
January 22 - Knox Mine Disaster - water breaches River Slope mine in Port Griffith, Pennsylvania - 12 miners dead.
January 24 - The formation of the Nu Tetarton chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa at Rutgers University.
January 25 - Pope John XXIII announces that the Second Vatican Council will be convened in Rome.
December
December 1 - Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed - 12 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign a landmark treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent (this was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War).
December 2 - Malpasset dam in southern France collapses and water flows over the town of Frejus: 412 dead.
December 13 - Three years after its first telecast, MGM's The Wizard of Oz is shown on television for only the second time, but it gains an even larger viewing audience than its first television outing, spurring CBS to make it an annual tradition.
December 14 - Makarios selected first president of Cyprus.
Undated
Pantyhose are introduced by Glen Raven Mills.
Workers World Party is founded by Sam Marcy.
The first known human with HIV dies in Congo. PMID 9468138
The current (as of 2006) design of the Japanese 10 yen coin was put into circulation.
The Caspian Tiger became extinct in Iran by this date.
Ongoing
Algerian War (1954-62)
First Sudanese Civil War (1955-72)
Marshall Plan
Mau Mau Uprising (1952-60)
Births
January-February
January 1 - Azali Assoumani, President of the Comoros
January 5 - Clancy Brown, American actor
January 9
January 16 - Sade, Nigerian-born singer
January 17 - Susanna Hoffs, Lead singer of The Bangles
January 21
January 24 - Nastassja Kinski, German actress
January 27 - Keith Olbermann, American news correspondent and sportscaster
January 31 - Kelly Moore, American race car driver
February 3 - Laurence Tolhurst, cofounder and former drummer/keyboardist of The Cure
February 4 - Lawrence Taylor, American football player
February 6 - Ken Nelson, English record producer
February 10 - Dennis Gentry, American football player
February 14 - Renee Fleming, American soprano
February 16 - John McEnroe, American tennis player
February 22 - Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
February 26 - Rolando Blackman, Panamanian basketball player
March-April
March 4 - Rick Ardon, Australian news presenter
March 6 - Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
March 8 - Aidan Quinn, Irish/American actor
March 9 - Giovanni di Lorenzo, German-Italian journalist and talk show host
March 10 - Mike Wallace, American race car driver
March 15 - Harold Baines, baseball player
March 16
March 17 - Danny Ainge, American basketball player, coach, and baseball player
March 18
March 20
March 21 - Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese composer
March 22 - Matthew Modine, American actor
March 29
April 1 - Denise Nickerson, American actress
April 2 - Badou Zaki, Morrocan football player and manager
April 3 - David Hyde Pierce, American actor
April 10 - Brian Setzer, American guitarist (Stray Cats)
April 11 - Ana María Polo, Cuban-born judge and television personality
April 15 - Fruit Chan, Hong Kong film director
April 16 - Alison Ramsay, Scottish field hockey player
April 20 - Clint Howard, American actor and producer
April 21 - Robert Smith, British musician (The Cure)
April 21 - Jerry Only American musician Bassist (The Misfits)
April 22
April 25 - Tony Phillips, American baseball player
April 27 - Sheena Easton, Scottish singer
April 30 - Stephen Harper, Canadian politician and present Prime Minister (2006- )
May-June
May 3 - Uma Bharati, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
May 3 - Ben Elton, British comedian and writer
May 5
May 10 - Victoria Rowell, American actress
May 14 - Patrick Bruel, French singer
May 15 - Andrew Eldritch, British musician (The Sisters of Mercy)
May 17 - Marcelo Loffreda, Argentine rugby player and coach
May 17 - Jim Nantz, American sports announcer
May 19 - Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of O.J. Simpson and murder victim (d. 1994)
May 20 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, American singer (d. 1997)
May 21 - Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish politician
May 22 - Steven Morrissey, British singer
May 24 - Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish-born hockey player (d. 1985)
May 27 - Katherine Lanpher, American journalist
May 29 - Adrian Paul, British actor
June 8 - Bernard White, Sri Lankan-born American actor, screenwriter and film director
June 11 - Hugh Laurie, British actor and comedian
June 12 - John Linnell, American musician (They Might Be Giants)
June 14 - Marcus Miller, American bassist
June 22
June 26 - Mark McKinney, Canadian actor and comedian
June 27 - Clint Boon, British musician (Inspiral Carpets)
June 30 - Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
July-August
July 3 - Julie Burchill, British journalist
July 6 - Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
July 7 - Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
July 9 - Kevin Nash, American professional wrestler
July 11
July 13 - Richard Leman, British field hockey player
July 16 - Gary Anderson, American football player
July 18 - Mel Purcell, American tennis player
July 27 - Hugh Green, American football player
July 29
August 1 - Joe Elliott, British singer (Def Leppard)
August 2 - Apollonia Kotero, American actress and singer
August 3 - Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
August 4 - Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (d. 2002)
August 8 - Christoph Theinert, German cellist and composer
August 10 - Rosanna Arquette, American actress
August 11 - Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian singer
August 13 - Danny Bonaduce, American actor
August 14 - Magic Johnson, American basketball player
August 15 - Scott Altman, American astronaut
August 17
August 18 - June Angela, Asian-American actress, singer, and dancer
August 21 - Jim McMahon, American football player
August 25 - Sönke Wortmann, German film director
August 27 - Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist
August 29
August 30 - Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian footballer and actor
September-October
September 2 - Guy Laliberté, Quebec Cirque du soleil founder
September 4 - Kevin Harrington, Australian actor
September 8 - Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer, singer, and actor
September 14 - Morten Harket, Norwegian singer (a-ha)
September 17 - Charles Lawson, Irish actor
September 18 - Sérgio Britto, Brazilian singer and keyboardist
September 21
September 29 - Benjamin Sehene, Rwandan writer
September 30 - Ettore Messina, Italian basketball coach
October 1 - Youssou N'Dour singer
October 3
October 4 - Chris Lowe, British musician
October 7
October 9 - Michael Pare, American actor
October 10 - Kirsty MacColl, British singer and songwriter (d.2000)
October 13 - Marie Osmond, American singer
October 15
October 17 -
October 21 - Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
October 21 - Tony Ganios, American actor
October 23 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, American singer and parodist
October 25 - Christina Amphlett, Australian singer (Divinyls)
October 26 - Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
October 27 - Rick Carlisle, American basketball coach
October 31 - Neal Stephenson, American writer
November-December
November 5 - Bryan Adams, Canadian singer and photographer
November 7 - Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
November 8 - Selçuk Yula, Turkish football player and topscorer.
November 9 - Tony Slattery, British comedian and actor
November 10 - Linda Cohn, American sports reporter
November 14 - Paul McGann, British actor
November 18 - Jimmy Quinn, Irish footballer and football manager
November 23 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)
November 25 - Charles Kennedy, British politician
November 28 - Judd Nelson, American actor
November 29
November 30 - Lorraine Kelly, British presenter and journalist
December 6 - Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo
December 20 - Sandra Cisneros, Mexican-born author
December 21 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (d. 1998)
December 24 - Keith Deller, English darts player
December 27 - Gerina Dunwich, American author
December 31
date unknown - Willie Doherty, Irish artist
Deaths
January-March
January 2 - William D. Francis, Australian botanist (b. 1889)
January 3 - Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, novelist and translator (b. 1887)
January 21 - Cecil B. DeMille, American film director (b. 1881)
January 22 - Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929)
February 1 - Frank Shannon, American actor (b. 1874)
February 3 - Killed in the crash of a private plane:
February 3 - Vincent Astor, American philanthropist (b. 1891)
February 4 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)
February 11 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (b. 1922)
February 14 - Baby Dodds, American jazz musician (b. 1898)
February 15 - Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
February 23 - Luis Palés Matos, Puerto Rican poet (b. 1898)
February 26 - Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, eldest grandchild of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1891)
February 28 - Maxwell Anderson, American screenwriter (b. 1888)
March 3 - Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)
March 4 - Maxey Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
March 26 - Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888)
March 29 - Barthélemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
April-June
April 9 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)
May 5 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
May 14 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)
May 16 - Elisha Scott, Irish footballer (b. 1894)
May 18
May 24 - John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
May 30 - Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, Argentinian journalist (b. 1898)
June 9 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
June 16 - George Reeves, American actor, tv "Superman" (b. 1914)
June 18 - Ethel Barrymore, stage & screen actress (b. 1879)
June 23 - Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer, and musician (b. 1920)
July - September
July 11 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882)
July 15 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
July 17 - Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
July 25 - Mutara III, king of Rwanda (b. c. 1912)
August 5 - Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881)
August 6 - Preston Sturges, American film director and writer (b. 1898)
August 15 - Blind Willie McTell, American singer (b. 1901)
August 16 - Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879)
August 19
August 28 - Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
September 7 - Maurice Duplessis, premier of Québec (b. 1890)
September 28 - Rudolf Caracciola, racing driver (b. 1901)
October-December
October 6 - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
October 7 - Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
October 14 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)
October 16 - George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)
October 18 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
October 19 - Ebrahim Hakimi, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1871)
October 22 - Joseph Cahill, Australian politician (b. 1891)
October 28 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
November 15 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
November 17 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
November 21 - Max Baer, American boxer and actor (b. 1909)
December 4 - Hubert Marischka, Austrian film director (b. 1882)
December 22 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born dancer and actress (b. 1901)
Nobel prizes
Physics - Emilio Gino Segrè, Owen Chamberlain
Chemistry - Jaroslav Heyrovský
Physiology or Medicine - Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg
Literature - Salvatore Quasimodo
Peace - Philip John Noel-Baker
Academy Awards
Best Picture: Gigi
Best Director: Vincente Minnelli, Gigi
Best Actor: David Niven, Separate Tables
Best Supporting Actor: Burl Ives, The Big Country
Best Actress: Susan Hayward, I Want To Live!
Best Supporting Actress: Wendy Hiller, Separate Tables
Best Original Story and Screenplay: Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith, The Defiant Ones
Best Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium: Alan Jay Lerner , GigiFurther Information
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