Historical Events In 1959
May 01 West Germany introduces 5 day work week
May 11 "Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" by Byrnes & Connie Stevens hits #4
May 20 Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship
May 04 The first Grammy Awards: Perry Como &Ella Fitzgerald win
May 24 The first house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills PA)
May 08 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship; 200 drown just yards from shore
May 19 Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands
May 01 Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
May 28 Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts
May 29 Charles de Gaulle forms French Government
May 10 Soviet forces arrive in Afghánistán
May 20 Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon"
May 22 Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes first black general-major in USAF
May 11 Rodgers & Barer's musical "Once Upon a Mattress" premieres in NYC
May 06 Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing ships
May 25 Supreme Court rules that Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing is unconstitutional
May 04 The first Grammy Awards Perry Como &Ella Fitzgerald win
May 11 Elvis Presley's first entry on UK charts with "Heartbreak Hotel"
May 21 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens
May 30 Iraq terminates military assistance pact with US due to neutrality
May 12 Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher)
May 28 Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became first animals retrieved from a space mission
May 24 Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England
May 01 Streetcars in Ottawa replaced by buses.
May 04 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)
May 30 World's first hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England
May 30 President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
May 20 Shah of Persia visits Netherlands
May 25 Khrushchev visits Angola
Jan 17 The African country of Mali is formed with the joining of Senegal and French Sudan
Jan 01 Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community
Jan 05 "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV
Jan 01 Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dominican Republic
Jan 29 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
Jan 01 Fidel Castro leads Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista.
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