Historical Events for Year 1959 (Part 3)

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

Events 301 - 450 of 516

Jul 17th - Tibet abolishes serfdom
Jul 17th - River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
Jul 18th - 1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)
Jul 19th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance
Jul 21st - 1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, christened, Camden NJ
Jul 21st - Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green)
Jul 22nd - Benjamin Britten's "Missa Brevis" in D, premieres
Jul 22nd - Earth gas found at Kolham (Slochteren) Groningen
Jul 23rd - VP Richard Nixon begins visit on USSR
Jul 24th - 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
Jul 24th - VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"
Jul 25th - SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
Jul 26th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open
Jul 27th - Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut
Jul 27th - William Shea announces he plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961
Jul 28th - Great-Britain starts using postal codes
Jul 28th - Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
Jul 29th - First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
Jul 30th - In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev Jul 31st - 1st exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
Aug 1st - New Continental baseball league formed
Aug 1st - Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia
Aug 1st - WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
Aug 2nd - 41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC
Aug 2nd - Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples
Aug 2nd - SF Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 HRs
Aug 3rd - 27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA
Aug 3rd - 50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau
Aug 3rd - AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium)
Aug 4th - "Billy Barnes Revue" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 87 perfs
Aug 5th - 42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record)
Aug 5th - Chic Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in Toronto
Aug 7th - Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space
Aug 7th - The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design
Aug 12th - 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
Aug 12th - Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa
Aug 13th - Milt satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)
Aug 14th - 26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)
Aug 14th - AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver & Houston
Aug 16th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open
Aug 16th - USSR introduces installment buying
Aug 17th - 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
Aug 17th - USSR & Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor
Aug 18th - Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be pres of Continental League
Aug 19th - Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
Aug 19th - Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League
Aug 19th - Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
Aug 20th - Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months
Aug 21st - Hawaii becomes 50th US state
Aug 22nd - Cin Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs
Aug 23rd - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
Aug 24th - England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India
Aug 24th - Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
Aug 31st - 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)
Aug 31st - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
Aug 31st - Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean's NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game
Sep 2nd - US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
Sep 5th - Wash Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
Sep 6th - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
Sep 8th - The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
Sep 11th - "Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements
Sep 11th - Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans
Sep 11th - Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
Sep 11th - Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0
Sep 12th - "Bonanza" premieres on NBC-TV
Sep 12th - Janos Kádár becomes premier of Hungary
Sep 12th - Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon
Sep 13th - 73rd US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64)
Sep 13th - 79th US Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64)
Sep 13th - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
Sep 13th - USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body
Sep 14th - Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon
Sep 14th - WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
Sep 15th - Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
Sep 16th - President De Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination
Sep 17th - 59th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
Sep 17th - Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit
Sep 17th - Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan & Korea
Sep 18th - Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit
Sep 19th - Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland
Sep 20th - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Links Golf Invitation Open
Sep 21st - 600 Indian Dutch emigrate to US
Sep 22nd - Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant
Sep 23rd - 1959 The M/S Princess of Tasmania Australia's first passenger RO/RO diesel ferry makes maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
Sep 25th - Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley (37) & David Brown (43) wed
Sep 26th - Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty
Sep 26th - SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0
Sep 26th - Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, causing the deaths of 4,580 people with 658 missing
Sep 27th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open
Sep 27th - Braves & Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68)
Sep 27th - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit
Sep 28th - "Hennesey," debuts on CBS-TV
Sep 28th - Edward Franklin Albee's "zoo story," premieres in Berlin
Sep 28th - Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around Earth
Sep 29th - "Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis," debuts on CBS-TV
Sep 29th - "Philip Marlowe," debuts on ABC-TV
Sep 29th - Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, & take NL pennant
Sep 29th - Little Anthony & the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop"
Sep 29th - Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
Oct 1st - 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature a NY team (LA vs Chic)
Oct 2nd - Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS-TV
Oct 3rd - 13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal
Oct 4th - 1st World Series game played west of St Louis (in LA)
Oct 4th - Cleveland Browns' Jim Brown makes club record 37 rushing attempts
Oct 4th - Dmitri Sjostakovitch 1st Cello concert premieres in Leningrad
Oct 4th - LA Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394
Oct 4th - Netherlands beats Belgium 9-1
Oct 4th - USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
Oct 6th - Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
Oct 6th - Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
Oct 7th - "Happy Town" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances
Oct 7th - Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3
Oct 8th - "At the Drop of a Hat" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 perfs
Oct 8th - Conservatives win British election
Oct 8th - LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
JFK Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald Oct 9th - Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton
Oct 10th - "Happy Town" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 5 performances
Oct 10th - Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
Oct 10th - Pan Am begins regular flights around World
Oct 11th - KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
Oct 12th - At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
Oct 14th - WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
Oct 15th - "Untouchables" premieres
Oct 15th - KNDO TV channel 23 in Yakima, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
Oct 17th - "Billy Barnes Revue" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 87 perfs
Oct 17th - Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
Oct 17th - Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' dedicated
Oct 19th - Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel
Oct 19th - William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in NYC
Oct 20th - Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise
Oct 20th - WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville, MS (ABC) 1st broadcast
Oct 21st - Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
Oct 21st - Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC)
Oct 21st - Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in KC & NY
Oct 22nd - "Take Me Along" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 448 performances
Oct 22nd - Bob Merrill's musical "Take me Along," premieres in NYC
Oct 23rd - Chinese troops move into India, 17 die
Oct 24th - US premier of D Sjostakovitch's 1st Cello concert
Oct 27th - Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
Oct 28th - Buffalo Bills enter AFL
Oct 28th - Jean Genet's "Les Negres," premieres in Paris
Oct 29th - 10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced
Oct 31st - Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
Oct 31st - USSR & Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam
Nov 1st - 1st NHL goalie to wear a hockey mask (Jacques Plante)
Nov 1st - Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Balt
Nov 1st - Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo
Nov 1st - WOV-AM in NYC changes call letters to WADO
Nov 2nd - "Girls against the Boys" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 perfs
Nov 2nd - Charles Van Doren confesses, TV quiz show-"21," was fixed