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1959 Calendar

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•  February 8, 1959 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Pig in Chinese astrology.
•  February 20, 1959 – The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
•  March 9, 1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
•  July 1, 1959 – The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.
•  July 24, 1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a “Kitchen Debate”.
•  September 14, 1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
•  September 16, 1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
•  September 19, 1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
•  September 25, 1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
•  October 31, 1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.

•  January 14, 1959 – Geoff Tate, American musician (Queensrÿche)
•  April 21, 1959 – Robert Smith, British musician (The Cure)
•  May 2, 1959 – Tony Wakeford, English musician (Sol Invictus)
•  June 16, 1959 – The Ultimate Warrior, American professional wrestler
•  August 3, 1959 – Koichi Tanaka, Japanese engineer and chemist, Nobel laureate
•  September 6, 1959 – Bill Root, Canadian ice hockey defenceman
•  September 22, 1959 – Tai Babilonia, American figure skater
•  October 16, 1959 – Marc Collins-Rector, American businessman and sex offender
•  November 22, 1959 – Eddie Frierson, American voice actor and stage actor
•  December 25, 1959 – Michael P. Anderson, astronaut (d. 2003)