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1959 Calendar

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•  February 6, 1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
•  February 8, 1959 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Pig in Chinese astrology.
•  March 9, 1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
•  April 25, 1959 – The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
•  May 4, 1959 – The 1st Grammy Awards are held.
•  June 8, 1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
•  June 14, 1959 – A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies that departed from Cuba land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina. Save for four of them, all are killed and/or executed by Trujillo’s army.
•  July 1, 1959 – Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
•  September 14, 1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
•  November 1, 1959 – In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.

•  January 1, 1959 – Michel Onfray, French philosopher
•  March 16, 1959 – Flavor Flav, American rapper, and reality TV star
•  April 2, 1959 – Badou Zaki, Morrocan footballer and manager
•  July 29, 1959 – Dave LaPoint, American baseball player
•  August 11, 1959 – Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian guitarist and singer-songwriter (Soda Stereo)
•  August 27, 1959 – Jeanette Winterson, British novelist
•  October 31, 1959 – Mats Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player
•  November 18, 1959 – Karla Faye Tucker, first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984 (d. 1998)
•  December 8, 1959 – Mark Steyn, Canadian writer and cultural critic