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Years:
1956 1957 1958 - 1959 - 1960 1961 1962

Decades:
1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s

Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1959 by topic
Subject
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By country
Afghanistan Australia Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada China Denmark France Germany India Ireland Iran Israel Japan Luxembourg Malaya Mexico New Zealand Norway Pakistan Philippines Portugal Singapore South Africa South Korea Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Thailand Turkey United Kingdom United States
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Birth and death categories
Births Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments Disestablishments
Works category
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1959 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1959 MCMLIX
Ab urbe condita	2712
Armenian calendar	1408 ԹՎ ՌՆԸ
Assyrian calendar	6709
Baháʼí calendar	115–116
Balinese saka calendar	1880–1881
Bengali calendar	1366
Berber calendar	2909
British Regnal year	7 Eliz. 2 – 8 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2503
Burmese calendar	1321
Byzantine calendar	7467–7468
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4656 or 4449 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4657 or 4450
Coptic calendar	1675–1676
Discordian calendar	3125
Ethiopian calendar	1951–1952
Hebrew calendar	5719–5720
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2015–2016
- Shaka Samvat	1880–1881
- Kali Yuga	5059–5060
Holocene calendar	11959
Igbo calendar	959–960
Iranian calendar	1337–1338
Islamic calendar	1378–1379
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 34 (昭和３４年)
Javanese calendar	1890–1891
Juche calendar	48
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4292
Minguo calendar	ROC 48 民國48年
Nanakshahi calendar	491
Thai solar calendar	2502
Tibetan calendar	阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 2085 or 1704 or 932 — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 2086 or 1705 or 933

1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

January 1 - Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin.
January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance
January 2 - CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Backstage Wife Our Gal Sunday, Road of Life, and This is Nora Drake.
January 2 - Castro's troops enter Havana
January 3 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
January 4 - In Léopoldville 42 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the Abako party.
January 7 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro
January 22 - Knox Mine Disaster - water breaches River Slope mine in Port Griffith, Pennsylvania - 12 miners dead

February

February 1 - A referendum in Switzerland turns down female suffrage
February 3 - The plane (called the American Pie) transporting Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper goes down in an Iowa snowstorm, killing everyone on board. The tragedy is later termed "The Day the Music Died," popularized in Don McLean's song, "American Pie".
February 6 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished
February 16 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba
February 18 - Jesus Sosa Blanco, murderer of 108 people, executed in Cuba
February 18 - Women in Nepal vote for the first time
February 19 - The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence
February 22 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500

March-May

March 1 - USS Tuscaloosa, USS New Orleans, USS Tennessee and USS West Virginia struck from the Naval Vessel Register
March 1 – Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus from exile
March 1 - Japanese cities Uji, Kyoto and Muroto, Kochi are founded
March 8 - Last television appearance of The Marx Brothers, in The Incredible Jewel Robbery
March 9 - The Barbie doll debuts
March 17 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet and travels to India
March 18 - American President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs bill allowing for Hawaiian statehood
April 25 - The St. Lawrence Seaway linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean officially opens to shipping
May - First Ten Tors event held in Dartmoor
May 27 - Sweet Green Grass Books D.A. Johnson writer illustrator

June-July

June 3 - Singapore becomes a self governing crown colony of Great Britain with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister
June 5 - A new government of the State of Singapore is sworn in by Sir William Goode. Two former Ministers were re-elected to the Legislative Assembly.
June 8 - The first (and only) delivery of Missile Mail
June 9 - The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles
June 23 - Sean Lemass becomes the third Taoiseach of Ireland.
June 23 - Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (Polish Drezno), where he resumed a scientific career.
July 2 - Royal wedding in Belgium: Prince Albert marries the Italian princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria.
July 4 - With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
July 7 - 14:28 UT Venus occulted the star Regulus. The rare event which will next occur on October 1, 2044 was used for determining the diameter of Venus and the structure of Venus' atmosphere.
July 24 - At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice-president Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev have a "kitchen debate".