1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1959th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 959th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1950s decade.

From top to bottom, left to right: Fidel Castro takes over Cuba; Tsarong Dazang Dramdul and several Tibetan monks captured by the PLA during the 1959 Tibetan uprising; The MOSFET (MOS transistor) is invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs.; Site of Australopithecus boisei discovery in Tanzania.; Surface weather analysis of Typhoon Vera; Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev at the American National Exhibition; The Day the Music Died: The wreckage of the Bonanza at the crash site that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper; Damage to the Congolese Public Market in Léopoldville from the Léopoldville riots.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1959 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1959
MCMLIX
Ab urbe condita2712
Armenian calendar1408
ԹՎ ՌՆԸ
Assyrian calendar6709
Baháʼí calendar115–116
Balinese saka calendar1880–1881
Bengali calendar1366
Berber calendar2909
British Regnal yearEliz. 2 – 8 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2503
Burmese calendar1321
Byzantine calendar7467–7468
Chinese calendar戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
4656 or 4449
    — to —
己亥年 (Earth Pig)
4657 or 4450
Coptic calendar1675–1676
Discordian calendar3125
Ethiopian calendar1951–1952
Hebrew calendar5719–5720
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2015–2016
 - Shaka Samvat1880–1881
 - Kali Yuga5059–5060
Holocene calendar11959
Igbo calendar959–960
Iranian calendar1337–1338
Islamic calendar1378–1379
Japanese calendarShōwa 34
(昭和34年)
Javanese calendar1890–1891
Juche calendar48
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4292
Minguo calendarROC 48
民國48年
Nanakshahi calendar491
Thai solar calendar2502
Tibetan calendar阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
2085 or 1704 or 932
    — to —
阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
2086 or 1705 or 933

Events edit

January edit

 
January 8: Fidel Castro arrives in Havana

February edit

 
February 17: Technical drawing of Vanguard 2

March edit

April edit

May edit

 
May 28: Miss Baker awaits launch.

June edit

July edit

 
July 24: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and USA Vice President Richard Nixon engage in the Kitchen Debate

August edit

 
August 7: Launch of Explorer 6

September edit

 
September 26: Typhoon Vera storm path
Map key
  Tropical depression (≤38 mph, ≤62 km/h)
  Tropical storm (39–73 mph, 63–118 km/h)
  Category 1 (74–95 mph, 119–153 km/h)
  Category 2 (96–110 mph, 154–177 km/h)
  Category 3 (111–129 mph, 178–208 km/h)
  Category 4 (130–156 mph, 209–251 km/h)
  Category 5 (≥157 mph, ≥252 km/h)
  Unknown
Storm type
  Extratropical cyclone, remnant low, tropical disturbance, or monsoon depression

October edit

 
October 21: Atrium of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

November edit

December edit

Date unknown edit

Births edit

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December
 
Rigoberta Menchú
 
Linda Blair
 
Mauricio Macri
 
Joachim Kunz
 
John McEnroe
 
Vazgen Sargsyan
 
Jens Stoltenberg
 
Laura Chinchilla
 
Alberto Fernández
 
David Hyde Pierce
 
Dame Emma Thompson
 
Sean Bean
 
Pedro Pierluisi
 
Stephen Harper
 
Hugh Laurie
 
Klaus Iohannis
 
Christian Wulff
 
Tupou VI
 
Susana Martinez
 
Kevin Spacey
 
Sanjay Dutt
 
Rosanna Arquette
 
Gustavo Cerati
 
Magic Johnson
 
Morten Harket
 
Elizabeth Peña
 
Mauricio Funes
 
Ken Watanabe
 
Evo Morales
 
John Magufuli
 
Bryan Adams
 
Sean Young
 
Florence Griffith Joyner

January edit

February edit

March edit

April edit

May edit

June edit

July edit

August edit

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October edit

November edit

December edit

Deaths edit

January edit

 
Cecil B. DeMille

February edit

 
The Big Bopper
 
Buddy Holly
 
Baby Dodds

March edit

 
Lou Costello
 
Ichirō Hatoyama

April edit

 
Frank Lloyd Wright

May edit

 
John Foster Dulles

June edit

 
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
 
Hitoshi Ashida

July edit

 
Billie Holiday
 
William D. Leahy

August edit

 
William Halsey Jr.

September edit

 
Edmund Gwenn
 
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

October edit

 
Errol Flynn
 
George Marshall

November edit

 
Jose P. Laurel
 
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

December edit

 
Ante Pavelić

Unknown edit

Nobel Prizes edit

 

Notes edit

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