The Year 1959
History and Politics
Cuban President Batista flees to the Dominican Republic; Fidel Castro
becomes President of Cuba; expropriates US-owned sugar mills.
Belgium grants reforms in Congo.
De Gaulle proclaimed President of the Fifth Republic in France.
Macmillam visits USSR, France, Germany, Canada, and US.
Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus; Cyprus becomes a republic.
Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the US.
Khrushchev visits Albania and US.
Heinrich Lubke elected president of W. Germany.
Eisenhower visits W. Germany, England, India, and eight other nations.
Bandaranaika, President of Ceylon, is assassinated.
European Free Trade Assc. (The Seven) ratify treaty.
Britian and United Arab Republic resume diplomatic relations.
Nobel Peace Prize: Philip J. Noel-Baker.
George C. Marshall dies.
Science, Technology, Growth
USSR launches rocket with 2 monkeys aboard.
US artificial planet Pionerr 4 at Woomera.
USSR Lunik reaches moon; Lunik III phtographs moon.
First International Congress of Oceanography held in New York.
Alvarez discovers the neutral xi-particle.
De Beers (Johannesburg) manufactures a synthetic diamond.
Nobel Prize in Physics: E. G. Segre and Owen Chamberlain (both US) for their discovery of antiproton.
Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Jaroslav Heyrovsky (Czech) for his developement of polarography.
Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology: S. Ochoa and A. Kornberg
(both US) for their synthesis of RNA and DNA.
First US nuclear-powered merchant vessel, "Savannah" is launched.
World Refugee Year proclaimed.
TV coverage of British General Election.
Louis B. Leaky finds the skull of "Nutcracker Man" in Tanganyika (approx. 600,000 B.C.)
First section of London-Birmingham Motorway opens.
Bowling: Ed Lubanski (Detroit) scores 700 pins for his 5-man team in the ABC all counts.
Ingemar Johnson defeats Floyd Patterson to win world heavyweight boxing championship.
Bill Mauldin wins the Pulitzer Prize for the second time for his cartoons.
US Postmaster General Summerfield bans DH Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" from the
Australia wins Davis Cup tennis match over US team.
Los Angeles (NL) defeats Chicago (AL> in World Series, 4-2.
US Golf Assc. won by Jack Nicklaus; Open won by Billy Cooper.
Iowa defeats California in Rose Bowl, 38-12.
US Lawn Tennis Singles won by Neale Fraser (Au), women's won by Maria Bueno (Brazil)
Edward B. Elliott lands a 97-lb blue catfish at Missouri River, S. Dakota; Heinz Wichmann lands a 92-lb Chinook
This page hosted by
Daily Life
mails on teh grounds of obscenity; ruling reversed in 1960 by Circuit Court of Appeals.
salmon at Sheena River, British Columbia; Alfred Dean lands a 2,644-lb shark at Ceduns, S. Australia.
Get your own Free Home Page