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1959 Calendar

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•  January 22, 1959 – Knox Mine Disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston City, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners are killed.
•  January 30, 1959 – ship MS, said to be the safest ship afloat and “unsinkable” like the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, killing all 95 aboard.
•  February 8, 1959 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Pig in Chinese astrology.
•  April 10, 1959 – Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko.
•  May 4, 1959 – The 1st Grammy Awards are held.
•  May 30, 1959 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Lord Cobham.
•  June 14, 1959 – Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
•  July 21, 1959 – Elijah Jerry “Pumpsie” Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
•  November 19, 1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
•  December 29, 1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”, which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.

•  April 25, 1959 – Tony Phillips, American baseball player
•  May 29, 1959 – Adrian Paul, English actor
•  June 22, 1959 – Ed Viesturs, American mountaineer
•  July 12, 1959 – David Brown, Australian weatherman
•  July 26, 1959 – Rick Bragg, American writer
•  July 27, 1959 – Yiannos Papantoniou, Greek politician
•  August 13, 1959 – Danny Bonaduce, American actor
•  August 24, 1959 – Adrian Kuiper, former South African cricketer
•  September 10, 1959 – Peter Nelson, American actor
•  November 29, 1959 – Rahm Emanuel, American politician