Hisdates•ComPage 7: Historical Events In 1959
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Apr 25 St Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping in the year 1959. 
Apr 25 USS Eversole rescues 14 Chinese Nationalist fishermen from their sinking fishing trawler in the Formosa Strait on this day in history.
Apr 26 Cuba invades Panama in the year 1959.
Apr 27 "Today" show goes abroard 1st time (Paris France) on this day in history.
Apr 27 On this day in history "Today" show goes abroard the first time (Paris France)
Apr 27 Gordon Armstrong inventor of baby incubator, dies in the year 1959.
Apr 27 Gordon Armstrong, inventor (baby incubator), dies on this day in history.
Apr 28 KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting in the year 1959.
Apr 30 Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.
May 01 On this day in history floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
May 01 On this day in history oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies
May 01 In the year 1959 streetcars in Ottawa replaced by buses.
May 01 In the year 1959 west Germany introduces 5 day work week
May 04 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB) on this day in history.
May 04 The first Grammy Awards Perry Como &Ella Fitzgerald win on this day in history.
May 04 In the year 1959 the first Grammy Awards: Perry Como &Ella Fitzgerald win
May 06 On this day in history iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing ships
May 08 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship; 200 drown just yards from shore on this day in history.
May 08 Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55 in the year 1959.
May 10 Soviet forces arrive in Afghánistán in the year 1959.
May 11 "Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" by Byrnes & Connie Stevens hits #4 on this day in history.
May 11 Elvis Presley's first entry on UK charts with "Heartbreak Hotel" in the year 1959.
May 11 Rodgers & Barer's musical "Once Upon a Mattress" premieres in NYC on this day in history.
May 12 In the year 1959 liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher)
May 14 Sidney Bechet, US jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 62 on this day in history.
May 15 On this day in history berend van den Amstel, [Bernard CED Hattink], Dutch actor, dies at 56
May 16 Joe Cook, Stage comedian, dies at 69 in the year 1959.
May 19 In the year 1959 jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands
May 20 Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher, dies at 60 in the year 1959.
May 20 In the year 1959 ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon"
May 20 In the year 1959 japanese-Americans regain their citizenship
May 20 On this day in history shah of Persia visits Netherlands
May 21 On this day in history cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens
May 22 Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes first black general-major in USAF in the year 1959.
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