Historical Events In 1959
Mar 07 The first aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 Mkm) in a jet (MC Garlow)
Mar 05 Iran & US sign economic & military treaty
Mar 10 Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet
Mar 16 Iraq &USSR sign economic/technical treaty
Mar 24 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact
Mar 03 British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis
Mar 12 US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
Mar 17 Australia and USSR restore diplomatic relations
Mar 09 The first known radar contact is made with Venus
Mar 04 US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet
Mar 09 Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold
Mar 25 French President De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary
Mar 31 The Dalai Lama, fleeing the Chinese suppression of a national uprising in Tibet, crosses the border into India, where he is granted political asylum
Mar 01 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament
Mar 07 West Indies all out 76 vs Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34
Mar 17 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
Mar 15 Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 minutes 42.5 seconds
Mar 03 First US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, is launched
Mar 08 Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq
Mar 06 11th Emmy Awards Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr
Mar 29 Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore
Mar 06 Raymond Burr wins for best actor in a series at the 11th Emmy Awards for his work in TV's Perry Mason.
Mar 07 Melvin C. Garlow became the first pilot to fly over a million miles in jet airplanes.
Mar 26 Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad vs West Indies age 15 years 124 days
Mar 11 The new home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team was officially named Candlestick Park.
Mar 29 "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe & Jack Lemmon premieres
Mar 04 Pioneer 4 becomes the first American spacecraft to flyby the Moon
Mar 06 11th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr
Mar 03 The new home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team was officially named Candlestick Park.
Mar 08 Groucho, Chico &Harpo's final TV appearance together
Mar 01 Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years
Mar 29 Barthelemy Boganda, first president of the Central African Republic, is killed in a plane crash.
Mar 06 Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
Mar 28 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government & installs Panchen Lama
Mar 18 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Hawaiian statehood bill into law, approving the entrance of Hawaii into the United States pending approval by the electorate of the Pacific Ocean island chain
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