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- Jun 3 1st US Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Jun 3 Singapore adopts constitution
Historic Communication
Jun 3 US President Eisenhower routes Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker a message off the Moon
- Jun 5 Bob Dylan graduates from Hibbing High School in Minnesota
Event of Interest
Jun 5 The first independent government of the State of Singapore is sworn in with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister
Baseball Record
Jun 10 MLB Cleveland Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 4 home runs in 11-8 win over the Orioles, in Baltimore
- Jun 10 Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive HRs in 1 game
- Jun 11 Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)
- Jun 11 Saunders-Roe SR.N1, the first practical hovercraft, performs its first public flight
- Jun 13 "Sammy Kaye Show" last airs on ABC-TV
- Jun 15 Galapagos Islands are made Ecuador's first national park, banning the capture of species [1]
- Jun 16 South African Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to newly established black township Kwa Mashu, on outskirts met with violent resistance
Election of Interest
Jun 17 Eamon de Valera elected President of Ireland
- Jun 18 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
- Jun 18 Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane
- Jun 18 New York City premiere of the film version of Kathryn Hulme's "The Nun's Story"
- Jun 19 Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Secetary of Commerce
- Jun 22 "Along Came Jones" by The Coasters peaks at #9
Music History
Jun 22 "Class" the first hit by Chubby Checker peaks at #38 in the US
- Jun 22 American bowler Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games
Sports History
Jun 22 Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax)
- Jun 22 Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage
- Jun 22 Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (fails)
- Jun 23 A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people
Klaus Fuchs Released
Jun 23 Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany, where he resumed a scientific career
Boxing Title Fight
Jun 26 Ingemar Johansson of Sweden floors Floyd Patterson 7 times in the 3rd round in NYC to win the world heavyweight boxing title
- Jun 26 Queen Elizabeth II and US President Dwight D. Eisenhower open the St. Lawrence Seaway, allowing oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America
- Jun 27 Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the MLB All-Star Game
- Jun 28 Meldrim trestle disaster; freight train derails over Ogeechee River in Georgia causing IPG tanks to explode killing 23
- Jun 28 Philadelphia Phillies' Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice, in a 6-0 loss to Giants at Seals Stadium, San Francisco, California
Catholic Encyclical
Jun 29 Pope John XXIII publishes his 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity"
- Jun 30 During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls are in play at same time
- Jul 1 Heinrich Lubke elected President of West Germany
- Jul 1 Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West Germany
- Jul 1 The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference.
- Jul 1 World Refugee Year begins
- Jul 1 WVTV TV channel 18 in Milwaukee, WI (IND) begins broadcasting
- Jul 3 1st exhibition of Karen, the bongo antelope, at Cleveland Zoo opens (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Jul 4 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
- Jul 4 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
- Jul 4 Island Records founded in Jamaica
Event of Interest
Jul 5 Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns
- Jul 5 Indonesia restores constitution
- Jul 5 Jack Gelber's "Connection" premieres in NYC
- Jul 6 Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic
- Jul 6 WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Jul 12 NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during Yankee-Red Sox game
- Jul 14 USS Long Beach, first nuclear powered cruiser launched at Quincy, Massachusetts
- Jul 15 The US steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history
North by Northwest
Jul 17 "North by Northwest" directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint premieres in Los Angeles
- Jul 17 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis
Scientific Discovery
Jul 17 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovers partial skull of a new species of early human ancestor, Zinjanthropus boisei or 'Zinj' (now called Paranthropus boisei) lived in Africa almost 2 million years ago
- Jul 17 River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
- Jul 17 Tibet abolishes serfdom
The Nun's Story
Jul 18 "The Nun's Story" based on the novel by Kathryn Hulme, starring Audrey Hepburn premieres in Los Angeles
- Jul 18 William 'Bill' Wright becomes the 1st African American to win a major golf tournament (U.S. Amateur Public Links Championships)
- Jul 21 1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, named, Camden NJ
- Jul 21 Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green)
Music History
Jul 22 Benjamin Britten's "Missa Brevis" in D premieres
The Worst Movie Ever
Jul 22 Ed Wood's cult classic "Plan 9 From Outer Space", called one of the worse films ever, premieres
- Jul 22 Natural gas found at Slochteren, Groningen, Netherlands
Nixon Visits USSR
Jul 23 US Vice President Richard Nixon begins visit to the USSR
- Jul 24 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
Kitchen Debate
Jul 24 US Vice President Richard Nixon argues with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, known as the "Kitchen Debate"
- Jul 25 SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
Sports History
Jul 26 Chicago White Sox Larry Doby plays final MLB game; retires in 1962 after playing for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan
- Jul 27 Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut
- Jul 27 Baseball's new Continental League is formally announced by attorney William Shea; teams in Denver, Colorado; Houston, Texas; Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota; New York City; and Toronto, Ontario are confirmed, with three more to be named later
- Jul 27 William Shea announces plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961
- Jul 28 Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
- Jul 28 United Kingdom starts using postal codes
- Jul 29 First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union
Sports History
Jul 30 In his MLB debut, SF Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4 in a 7-2 win over Philadelphia Phillies at Seal Stadium
Living' Doll
Jul 31 Cliff Richard and the Shadows have their 1st British No. 1 single with "Living' Doll" (biggest British single of 1959)
- Aug 1 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia
- Aug 1 WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
- Aug 2 Future Hall of Fame 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 MLB home runs in SF Giants 5-3 win v Pittsburgh Pirates
- Aug 2 Milwaukee Braves outfielder Bill Bruton hits 3 triples in 11-5 win v St. Louis Cardinals; 2 of them bases loaded, first time in 20th Century
- Aug 3 50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau
- Aug 3 AL beats NL 5-3 in Game 2 of All Star Baseball doubleheader (to boost player pension fund) at LA Memorial Coliseum
- Aug 5 42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record)
- Aug 5 Chicago Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL), 55-26 in a pre-season exhibition at CNE Stadium in Toronto
- Aug 7 Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space
- Aug 12 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
- Aug 12 Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa
- Aug 13 US Military satellite Discoverer 5 launches into polar orbit
- Aug 14 26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)
- Aug 14 First (American Football League) meeting is held in Chicago; charter memberships handed to Dallas, NY, Houston, Denver, LA and Minneapolis-Saint Paul; 'AFL' named following week
- Aug 16 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Ranier G&CC: Betsy Rawls wins her second WO by 6 strokes from JoAnne Gunderson and Patty Berg
- Aug 16 USSR introduces installment buying
- Aug 17 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
- Aug 17 USSR & Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor
Baseball History
Aug 18 Branch Rickey resigns as MLB Pittsburgh Pirates' CEO to be President of new baseball Continental League
- Aug 19 Honolulu, Hawaii seeks a franchise in baseball's new Continental League
- Aug 19 Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
- Aug 20 Belgium shortens military conscription to 12 months
- Aug 21 Hawaii becomes the 50th US state
- Aug 22 American Football League officially named at a meeting in Dallas, Texas; charter members Dallas, NY, Houston, Denver, LA and Minneapolis-Saint Paul
Baseball Record
Aug 22 Cincinnati Reds future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs (6 RBIs) in 11-4 win over St. Louis Cardinals at Crosley Field
- Aug 24 England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India
- Aug 24 Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American US Senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American US Representative; both from Hawaii
Morris Mini-Minor
Aug 26 British Motor Corporation introduces the Morris Mini-Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis, it was only 10 ft long but seated 4 passengers
- Aug 31 Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean's NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game
- Sep 2 US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
- Sep 5 Washington Senator's player Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
- Sep 8 The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
- Sep 11 Baltimore starter Jerry Walker pitches all 16 innings as the Orioles edge the Chicago White Sox, 1-0 at Memorial Stadium
Music History
Sep 11 Composer and jazz orchestra leader Duke Ellington wins NAACP's Springarn Medal for his musical achievements
- Sep 11 Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans
- Sep 11 Elroy Face's 22 game winning streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
Bonanza
Sep 12 American western series "Bonanza" starring Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, and Michael Landon premieres on NBC-TV
- Sep 12 Janos Kádár becomes premier of Hungary
- Sep 12 Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the Moon
Priscilla Meets Elvis
Sep 13 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu meets 24-year-old Elvis Presley at a party at his home in Bad Nauheim, Germany
- Sep 13 USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body
- Sep 14 Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon
- Sep 14 WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
Khrushchev Visits the United States
Sep 15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives in United States to begin a 13-day visit, the first state visit of a Soviet or Russian leader to the US
Algerian Self Determination
Sep 16 French President Charles de Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination
- Sep 17 59th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
- Sep 17 Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit
- Sep 17 Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan & Korea
- Sep 18 Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit
- Sep 19 Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland
- Sep 21 600 Indian Dutch emigrate to US
- Sep 22 Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant
- Sep 23 Australia's first passenger roll on/roll off diesel ferry, the MS Princess of Tasmania makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait
The Mummy
Sep 25 Hammer horror film "The Mummy" starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing is first released in the UK
Baseball History
Sep 26 Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty
- Sep 26 SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0
- Sep 26 Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, causing the deaths of 4,580 people with 658 missing
- Sep 27 Braves & Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68)
- Sep 27 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit
- Sep 28 "Hennesey" debuts on CBS-TV
- Sep 28 Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around Earth
- Sep 29 "Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis" debuts on CBS-TV
- Sep 29 "Philip Marlowe" debuts on ABC-TV
- Sep 29 Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, & take NL pennant
- Sep 29 Little Anthony & the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop"
- Sep 29 Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
- Oct 2 Rod Serling's anthology series "The Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS-TV
Shostakovich's 1st Cello Concert
Oct 4 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Cello concert premieres in Leningrad
- Oct 4 Netherlands equal best performance against neighbours Belgium; win, 9-1 in soccer friendly at De Kuip, Rotterdam; Piet van der Kuil & Faas Wilkes score 3 apiece
- Oct 4 USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
- Oct 6 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
Pillow Talk
Oct 7 "Pillow Talk" film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson is first released
Far Side of the Moon Revealed
Oct 7 Far side of Moon seen for the 1st time, courtesy of USSR's Luna 3 space probe
Harold Macmillan Wins Election
Oct 8 Conservatives led by Harold Macmillan win the British general election
Event of Interest
Oct 9 Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England
- Oct 10 Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
- Oct 10 Pan Am begins regular flights around the world
- Oct 11 KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Oct 12 At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
- Oct 14 WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Oct 15 KNDO TV channel 23 in Yakima, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Oct 15 TV series "The Untouchables" starring Robert Stack premieres in the US
Event of Interest
Oct 17 Queen Elizabeth II is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
- Oct 17 Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' dedicated
- Oct 19 Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel
- Oct 19 William Gibson's "Miracle Worker" premieres in NYC
- Oct 20 Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise
- Oct 20 WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville, MS (ABC) 1st broadcast
- Oct 21 Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
Guggenheim Museum
Oct 21 Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York
- Oct 21 Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in KC & NY
- Oct 23 Chinese troops move into India, 17 die
- Oct 24 US premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Cello concert
- Oct 27 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
- Oct 28 American Football League awards Buffalo Bills franchise to Ralph C Wilson
Les Negres
Oct 28 Jean Genet's play "Les Negres" premieres in Paris
Asterix
Oct 29 "Asterix" is first published in the French magazine "Pilote" by Rene Goscinny, illustrated by Albert Uderzo
- Oct 29 10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced
- Oct 31 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to USA
- Oct 31 USSR and Egypt sign contracts to build the Aswan High Dam
- Nov 1 Future Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown runs for 5 touchdowns in Cleveland Browns, 38-31 win over Baltimore Colts at Memorial Stadium
Sports History
Nov 1 Montreal Canadiens’ goal tender Jacques Plante becomes first NHL net-minder to wear a fibreglass protective face mask
Event of Interest
Nov 1 Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo arrested for inciting an anti-colonial riot in Stanleyville
- Nov 1 WOV-AM in NYC changes call letters to WADO
- Nov 2 Charles Van Doren confesses during a congressional investigation that TV quiz show "Twenty-One" was fixed
- Nov 2 The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway
- Nov 3 David Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins Israeli parliamentary election
Sports History
Nov 4 Ernie Banks, Cubs shortstop, wins 2nd consecutive NL MVP
- Nov 5 AFL announced with 8 teams
- Nov 8 KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
- Nov 8 Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every seat
- Nov 11 1st episode of Jay Ward's cartoon series "Rocky & His Friends", featuring Rocket J. ("Rocky") Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose. airs on NBC
- Nov 11 Seals Stadium, a minor league baseball park and temporary home of MLB Giants) in San Francisco, California demolished
- Nov 12 White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP
- Nov 13 The Academy of St Martin in the Fields' first professional concert takes place in London
- Nov 14 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)
- Nov 15 Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Wash 31-17
Clutter Family
Nov 15 Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith murder four members of the Clutter Family at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas (subject of Truman Capote book In Cold Blood)
The Sound of Music
Nov 16 "The Sound of Music" musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater, NYC; runs for 1443 performances
- Nov 16 Boston business executive Billy Sullivan is awarded eighth and final franchise of developing American Football League (AFL); later branded Boston Patriots
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