Year 1959 in History - Important Historical Events of the year 1959

The year 1959 has a special significance of its own in India and world history. Let us know some such important events of the year 1959 such as: born famous people, death of famous people, war treaty, independence of a country, invention of new technology, change of power, important national and international day etc., knowing which your general Knowledge will increase.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
28 May	The US successfully sent two monkeys into space.
29 May	Charles de Gaulle became the President of France. He founded the Fifth Republic and was elected President of France, resigned from that post in 1969. He was one of the influential people in France during the Cold War era.
06 July	Vellore Hospital successfully underwent open heart surgery for the first time.
28 July	Postal codes began to be used in Great Britain.
12 September	The rocket 'Luna-2' of the then Soviet Union reached the moon.
14 September	The then Soviet Union spacecraft Luna-2 became the first aircraft to land on the moon.
26 September	The most powerful storm in Japan's history, Ve 'Vera', killed 4580 people and left 1.6 million people homeless.
07 October	The hidden part of the moon was photographed by the Soviet Union spacecraft Lunar-3.
27 October	The cyclonic storm in western Mexico killed at least 2000 people.
07 August	Explorer 6 first broadcast a picture of Earth from space.
01 December	The first color photo of Earth taken from outer space.
13 December	Arch Vish Vakarios was elected the first President of Cyprus.
03 January	Alaska was declared the 49th state of the United States.
27 January	The foundation stone of the first College of Engineering and Technology was laid in New Delhi.
07 February	Fidel Castro announced the new constitution of Cuba.
10 February	The storm in St. Louis, US, killed 19 and injured 265.
14 February	The reign of the famous revolutionary Feudel Castro began over Cuba.
16 February	Fidel Castro, the revolutionary leader in Cuba, became the youngest Prime Minister in Cuban history at 32 years.
19 February	There was an agreement between Greece, Turkey and Britain about the independence of Cyprus.
07 March	US pilot Melvin C. Garlov became the first pilot to cover a million miles with jets.
28 March	China disbanded the government of Tibet and instigated the Panchen Lama.
21 January	European Court of Human Rights was established.
20 February	Canada cancels the Aviro Arrow program.
23 March	Nine coal miners were killed in an explosion in the town of Bramstone, Tennessee.
06 April	The 31st Academy Awards ceremony was held.
24 May	British Empire Day was named Commonwealth Day.
09 June	USS George Washington dispatched first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
15 July	There was a strike against the steel industry of the United States.
08 August	20,000 people died in a Taiwan flood.
25 September	The Prime Minister of Ceylon SWRD Bandaranaike was assassinated.
16 October	The Boston Patriots AFL American Football Club was established.
21 November	Phoenix Art Museum was established.
12 December	The United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Uncomputed Outer Space was established.
01 January	Cuban President Fulgencio Batista fled to the Dominican Republic as forces under Fidel Castro took control of Havana, marking the end of the Cuban Revolution.
03 January	Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
30 January	On the return leg of her maiden voyage, the 'unsinkable' Danish ocean liner Hans Hedtoft struck an iceberg and sank with all hands lost.
03 February	American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. 'The Big Bopper' Richardson were killed when their plane crashed shortly after taking off from Mason City Municipal Airport inIowa.
09 February	The Soviet R-7 Semyorka, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile, became fully operational.
17 February	Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite, was launched to measure cloud cover distribution.
20 February	The Canadian government under Prime Minister John Diefenbaker Cancelled then Avro CF-105 Arrow interceptor aircraft program amid much political debate.
09 March	Barbie, the world's best-selling doll, debuted at the AmericanInternational Toy Fair in New York City.
10 March	An anti-Chinese uprising erupted in Lhasa, the capital ofTibet, as about 300,000 Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace to preventthe 14th Dalai Lama from leaving or being removed by the ChinesePeople's Liberation Army.
09 April	NASA announced the selection of the first astronaut Mercury Consumption (Picture) in Project Markuri.
10 April	Crown Prince Akihito, future emperor of Japan, WeddedMichiko, are the first common to marry in Japanese Imperial Family.
04 May	The first annual Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959 to honor the prestigious music celebrities for his performance in Los Angeles and New York in 1958.
04 May	The inaugural Grammy Awards ceremony was held, recognizing the achievement in the American music industry.
30 May	The Auckland Harbor Bridge, which joined St. Mary's Bay at Aucklandwith Northcot in former North Shor city of New Zealand, opened.
26 June	Ingamar Johansson became the only Swedish world champion Inhiviweight Boxing at Yankstadium, defeating American Floid Patterson.
15 July	Closing almost every steel mill in the country, five hundred thousand American steel workers went on strike.
24 July	Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and US Vice President Richardson Nixon made a serious debate on the inauguration of the American exhibition at Soconiki Park in Moscow.
07 August	Explorer 6 was sent to class to catch the Earth's first satellite photographs by the unmanned American spacecraft. Later in September, NASA released photographs to the World Press. It was Mexico that captured 6, as it went to the west on Earth at a speed of 20,000 mph.
17 August	The Blue of Kind by Miles Davis was one of the best -selling jazz recording by the best -selling and most critics.
21 August	Hawaii became the 50th state in the United States.
30 August	The title of Indonesia's national hero was first awarded to writer-cum-politics Abdul Muis.
31 August	South Vietnamese President Ngô? Nh di? A parcel bomb sent by M's younger brother and thief advisor, NGô NNH NHU failed to kill Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
04 September	The US Congress has passed the 'Labor Reform Act'. The law went to investigate the power of the country's largest and most influential labor unions.
14 September	The first man -made object is Luna 2 Moon crashed land, which is calling the space race between the United States and the two superpowers of the Soviet Union, with the first man -made object to reach the moon.
16 September	Haloid Zerox started the Xerox 914, the first physician, which was invented by American physicist Cheris Carlson.
26 September	Japan was killed by Typhoon Vera, which was the strongest and fatal record of landslides on the country with a compensation of $ 600 million on the US and over 4,000 deaths.
21 October	Solomon R. The Guggenheim Museum, designed by the American city of Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in the city of New York.
26 October	In the first, photographs of the distant edge of the moon are caught on Earth using a Soviet satellite that is sending radio signals back to Earth.
02 November	The first section of the M1 motorway, its first type in Britain, is opened between two motorway spurs (M10 Motorway from Saint Albans) and (M45 Motorway Cybantry) between Watford and Cric / Rugby.
15 November	A family was killed by two people in Holkam in Kansas, USA; The events served the theme of Truman Cupot's non-clarified novel in these cold blood as the right crime style.
16 November	The music of Rongars and Hamrstin, The Sound of Music, The Story of the Trap Family Singers, was widely opened in the Lant-Fontan Theater.
01 December	A treaty has been signed by assemblies of 12 countries including the United States. According to the treaty, Antarctica is accepted as a scientific reserve that will be free from any type of military activity.
01 December	Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the first arms-conduct agreement established during the Cold War, to ban military activity in the Antarctic and establish the continent as a scientific protection.
03 December	The present flag of Singapore was adopted, six months later Singingapur became self-governance within the British Empire.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
15 September	India's national broadcasting service Doordarshan started in Delhi for the first time.
29 September	India's Aarti Shah swam to become the first Asian woman to cross the English Channel.
06 February	Anna Chandy became the first woman judge to be appointed to the High Court in India.
17 March	The Buddhist teacher Dalai Lama arrived in India from Tibet.
31 March	The Tibetan religious leader Dalai Lama reached the border of India after a 15-day trek from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. India gave him political asylum.

Birth	Name/Category/Country
17 July	Nagaraja Rao Havaldar / Singer / India
02 December	Boman Irani / Actor / India
02 January	Kirti Azad / Politician / India
02 May	Uma Bharti / Politician / India
03 October	Subir Gokarn / Economist / India
03 May	Uma Bharti / Politician / India
05 March	Shivraj Singh Chauhan / Politician / India
06 January	Kapil Dev / Cricketer / India
06 January	Kapil Dev / Player / India
06 November	Puneet Issar / Actor / India
06 August	Rajendra Singh / Environmentalist / India
15 August	Malini Parthasarathy / Director / India
15 July	Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank / Politician / India
16 December	H. D. Kumaraswamy / Politician / India
17 July	Nagraj Rao Havaldar / Singer / India
17 July	Zarina Wahab / Actress / India
21 December	Krishnamachari Srikkanth / Cricketer / India
22 May	Mahbuba Mufti / Politician / India
22 May	Mehbooba Mufti / Politician / India
25 December	Ramdas Athawale / Politician / India
29 July	Sanjay Dutt / Actor / India

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