Historical Events for Year 1959 (Part 2)

Months in Year 1959: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Events 151 - 300 of 517

Apr 13th - Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists
Apr 14th - (Robert) Taft Memorial Bell Tower dedicated in Wash DC
Apr 14th - KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines, IA (PBS) begins broadcasting
Apr 15th - Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour
Apr 15th - US Sect of States John Foster Dulles resigns
Apr 16th - "Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 44 perfs
Apr 16th - Datu Abdul Rozak inaugurated as premier of Malaysia federation
Apr 16th - NY Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard
Apr 16th - Phils' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit
Apr 18th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1
Apr 19th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
Apr 19th - Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails
Apr 20th - 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42
Apr 21st - 1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod
Apr 21st - Alf Dean using a rod & reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark
Apr 22nd - Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings
Apr 22nd - Chicago White Sox beat KC Athletics 20-6, in 1 inning Sox score 11 runs on 1 hit, 10 walks, & 3 errors
Apr 23rd - "Destry Rides Again" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 472 perfs
Apr 23rd - 1st heliport in Britain opens in London
Dictator Fidel Castro Apr 24th - Neth Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)
Apr 24th - WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
Apr 25th - St Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping
Apr 26th - Cuba invades Panama
Apr 26th - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
Apr 27th - "Today" show goes abroard 1st time (Paris France)
Apr 27th - Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China PR
Apr 27th - The last Canadian missionary leaves the People's Republic of China.
Apr 28th - KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
Apr 28th - KPLR TV channel 11 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting
May 1st - Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
May 1st - West Germany introduces 5 day work week
May 1st - White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR
May 2nd - 85th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Tomy Lee wins in 2:02.2
May 3rd - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament
May 3rd - Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader
Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald May 4th - 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win
May 4th - Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)
May 6th - Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing ships
May 7th - "Roy Campanella Night" Largest baseball crowd (93,103 in LA Coliseum) sees Dodgers' Sandy Koufax beat Yankees 6-2 in exhibition
May 8th - 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship. 200 drown just yards from shore
May 9th - Dorothy Rigney, husband John, & Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox
May 10th - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Howard Johnson Golf Invitational
May 10th - Soviet forces arrive in Afghanistan
May 10th - Giants Jim Hearn allows 2 runs against Pirates, game is suspended, Hearn is released & charged with loss 2 months after his retirement
May 11th - "Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" by Byrnes & Connie Stevens hits #4
May 11th - Elvis Presley's 1st entry on UK charts with "Heartbreak Hotel"
May 11th - Rodgers & Barer's musical "Once upon a mattress," premieres in NYC
May 11th - Yankee catcher Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games ends
May 12th - "Nervous Set" opens at Henry Miller's Theater NYC for 23 performances
May 13th - Kraft Music Hall with Milton Berle, last airs on NBC-TV
Author Henry Miller May 15th - 100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst & Williams Teams reenact the original contest
May 16th - 85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57
May 16th - WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
May 17th - Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122
May 18th - "Castin' My Spell" by Johnny Otis Show hits #52
May 18th - "Judy" by David Seville hits #86
May 18th - "Russian Band Stand" by Spencer & Spencer hits #91
May 19th - Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands
May 20th - Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon"
May 20th - Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship
May 20th - Shah of Persia visits Netherlands
May 20th - Yanks sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940
May 21st - "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances
May 21st - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens
May 22nd - Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes 1st black gen-major in USAF
May 23rd - "Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 44 perfs
May 23rd - Presbyterian church accepts women preachers
May 24th - 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills Pa)
May 24th - Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev May 25th - Khrushchev visits Angola
May 25th - Supreme ct rules La prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional
May 26th - Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th
May 28th - Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts
May 28th - Johnson & Bart's musical "Lock up your daughters," premieres in London
May 28th - Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
May 29th - Charles de Gaulle forms French government
May 30th - "First Impressions" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 84 performances
May 30th - "Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater NYC after 23 perfs
May 30th - Iraq terminates milt assistance pact with US due to neutrality
May 30th - Pres Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
May 30th - Pres Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
May 30th - World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England
May 30th - The Auckland Harbour Bridge is officially opened today in Auckland, New Zealand.
May 31st - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Cavalier Golf Open
French President Charles de Gaulle Jun 1st - 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area
Jun 1st - Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
Jun 2nd - Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," SF
Jun 3rd - 1st US Air Force Academy graduation
Jun 3rd - 1st class graduates from Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo
Jun 3rd - Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon
Jun 3rd - Real Madrid wins 4th Europe Cup 1
Jun 3rd - Singapore adopts constitution
Jun 5th - Bob Dylan graduates Hibbing HS in Minn
Jun 5th - The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
Jun 7th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
Jun 7th - KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW)
Jun 8th - 1st official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Fla)
Jun 8th - X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
Jun 9th - 1st ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)
Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg Jun 10th - Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive HRs in 1 game
Jun 11th - Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)
Jun 12th - SF Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game
Jun 13th - "Sammy Kaye Show," last airs on ABC-TV
Jun 13th - 59th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot GC NY
Jun 13th - 91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6
Jun 14th - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
Jun 17th - Eamon de Valera elected pres of Ireland
Jun 18th - 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
Jun 18th - Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.
Jun 19th - Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Sec of Comm
Jun 22nd - "Along Came Jones" by Coasters peaks at #9
Jun 22nd - "Class" by Chubby Checker peaks at #38
Jun 22nd - Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games
Jun 22nd - Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax)
Jun 22nd - Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage
Jun 22nd - Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
Jun 23rd - Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).
Jun 23rd - A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.
Jun 26th - Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
Jun 26th - Queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open St Lawrence Seaway
Jun 27th - "West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 perfs
Jun 27th - 14th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
Jun 27th - Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game
Jun 28th - Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants 6-0)
Jun 29th - Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity"
Jun 30th - During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time
Jul 1st - Heinrich Lubke elected pres of West-Germany
Jul 1st - Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany
Jul 1st - WVTV TV channel 18 in Milwaukee, WI (IND) begins broadcasting
Jul 1st - World Refugee Year begins
Jul 1st - The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference.
Jul 2nd - "Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worse films ever, premieres
Jul 3rd - 73rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Alex Olmedo beats Rod Laver (64 63 64)
Jul 3rd - 88th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 284 at Muirfield Gullane
Jul 4th - 66th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Darlene Hard (64 63)
Jul 4th - America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
Jul 4th - Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
Jul 5th - Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns
Jul 5th - Indonesia restores constitution
Jul 5th - Jack Gelber's "Connection," premieres in NYC
Jul 6th - 5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
Jul 6th - Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic
Jul 6th - WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
Jul 7th - 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
Jul 9th - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Open
Jul 9th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
Jul 12th - NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during ankee-Red Sox game
Jul 14th - 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach, Quincy Mass
Jul 15th - The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
Jul 17th - 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis