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1959
Fidel Castro
In Cuba the revolution triumphs under Fidel Castro .
Memorial at the crash site at Mason City
" The Day the Music Died " - Buddy Holly , Ritchie Valens and Jiles Perry Richardson are killed in a plane crash.
State Seal of Alaska

State Seal of Hawaii

Alaska and Hawaii become states of the United States .
Poster for the Godesberg party conference of the SPD
The SPD proposes to her Godesberger Party the way to the People's Party one.
1959 in other calendars
From urbe condita 2712
Armenian calendar 1407-1408
Ethiopian calendar 1951-1952
Badi calendar 115-116
Bengali calendar 1365-1366
Berber calendar 2909
Buddhist calendar 2503
Burmese calendar 1321
Byzantine calendar 7467-7468
Chinese calendar
 - era 4655-4656 or
4595-4596
 - 60 year cycle

Earth-Dog ( 戊戌 , 35) -
Earth-Pig ( 己亥 , 36)

French
revolutionary calendar
CLXVII - CLXVIII
167-168
Hebrew calendar 5719-5720
Hindu calendar
 - Vikram Sambat 2015-2016
 - Shaka Samvat 1881-1882
Iranian calendar 1337-1338
Islamic calendar 1378-1379
Japanese calendar
 - Nengō (era): Shōwa 34
 - Kōki 2619
Coptic calendar 1675-1676
Korean calendar
 - Dangun era 4292
 - Juche era 48
Minguo calendar 48
Modern Olympics XVI
Seleucid calendar 2270-2271
Thai solar calendar 2502

In 1959 , after the flight of the dictator Batista, the revolutionaries under Fidel Castro take power in Cuba .

The superpowers USA and USSR are trying in talks to weaken the course of confrontation in the Cold War . US Vice President Richard Nixon travels to the Soviet Union, while Kremlin leader Nikita Khrushchev is the first Soviet party and government leader to travel to the United States.

In the Federal Republic of Germany , Heinrich Lübke will succeed Federal President Theodor Heuss after Adenauer had to give up his plans to be elected Federal President in addition to the office of Federal Chancellor . The SPD is aimed with its Godesberg Program towards market economy and acceptance of the Bundeswehr new.

Events

politics

Nikita Khrushchev (right) with Richard Nixon (1959)

economy

science and technology

Culture

1959 was an extraordinarily good vintage , especially in the Bordeaux wine-growing region .

religion

Pope John XXIII, 1959

Sports

Floyd Patterson on the ground after punching Ingemar Johanssons

For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .

Disasters

  • December 2 : The Malpasset dam collapses in southern France . 421 people died as a result of the tidal wave.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

Born

January

February

March

Luc Besson , 2014

April

May

Inger Nilsson as Pippi Longstocking 1972

June

Anil Ambani , 2009

July

Jim Kerr , 2006
Jörg Knör , 2011
Kevin Spacey

August

Michael Kors, 2008
Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr.
Sönke Wortmann
Jürgen Becker 2011

September

Sigmar Gabriel, 2012
Morten Harket

October

November

Bryan Adams , 2007
Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst (2012)

December

Day unknown

Died

January

February

March

April

May

June

George Grosz , 1930

July

August

September

October

Errol Flynn , 1940

November

December

Date unknown

Nobel Prizes

music

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