Events Date 1959 P 3 | History by KabAstro

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Nov 17 De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond

McCovey Rookie of Year

Nov 17 SF Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie of the Year

Baseball Hall of Fame 1st Baseman Willie McCovey

Nov 17 William Shea shows proposed NYC stadium with transparent roof

Ben-Hur

Nov 18 "Ben-Hur" directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston premieres in New York City (Academy Awards Best Picture 1960)

Nov 18 Wash Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year
Nov 19 "Rocky & His Friends" debuts on ABC
Nov 19 Ford Motors cancels its poorly received Edsel model
Nov 20 UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights
Nov 20 WABC fires Alan Freed over his refusal to swear innocence in payola scandal (accepting bribes from record companies)

Benny and Nixon Duet

Nov 21 Entertainer Jack Benny (violin) and US Vice-President Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet

Nov 22 American Football League (AFL) conducts its first draft in Minneapolis with the 8 clubs selecting their playing rosters for the inaugural 1960 season

Once Upon A Mattress

Nov 25 Mary Rodgers & Marshall Barer's musical "Once Upon A Mattress", starring Carol Burnett and directed by George Abbott, opens at Alvin Theater, NYC, after starting off-Broadway at the Phoenix Theatre, later moves to St. James

Nov 28 KOMC (now KSNK) TV channel 8 in McCook - Oberlin, NB (NBC) begins

Princeps Pastorum

Nov 28 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Princeps Pastorum

Nov 29 2nd Grammy Awards: "Mack The Knife", Bobby Darin win

Billy Cannon

Nov 30 1960 NFL Draft: Billy Cannon from LSU first pick by Los Angeles Rams

Nov 30 Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL
Dec 1 12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica
Dec 1 25th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Cannon, LSU (HB)
Dec 1 The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space
Dec 2 Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
Dec 3 State of emergency in Cyprus ends
Dec 5 Future Pakistan cricket captain Intikhab Alam bowls Australian opener Colin McDonald with his first ball in Test cricket in drawn 3rd Test in Karachi
Dec 8 Baseball's new Continental League awards its 6th franchise to Atlanta, Georgia
Dec 8 Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta

Eisenhower Catches a Game

Dec 8 President Eisenhower watches Pakistan v Aust Test Cricket at Karachi

34th US President and WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Poet Quasimodo Nobel Prize

Dec 10 Novel Prize for Literature awarded to Sicilian writer Salvatore Quasimodo for his lyrical poetry

Nobel for Antiproton Discovery

Dec 11 Emilio G. Segrè and Owen Chamberlain awarded Nobel Prize for Physics for discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle

Physicist and Nobel Laureate Emilio G. Segrè

Yankees Trade Three for Three

Dec 11 NY Yankees trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer and Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley and Joe Deaestri

Dec 12 Jack Brabham finishes 4th in season-ending US Grand Prix at Sebring to become first Australian F1 World Drivers Championship winner; takes title by 4 points from Briton Tony Brooks
Dec 12 UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
Dec 13 Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus, receiving two thirds of the vote
Dec 14 Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus
Dec 14 Joe B. Jordan in F-104C starfighter sets world altitude record, 31,513m
Dec 14 The album "Time Out" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is released, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard pop albums chart, and becomes the first jazz album to sell a million copies.

Di Stéfano's Second Win

Dec 15 Ballon d'Or: Real Madrid forward Alfredo Di Stéfano wins his second award for best football player in Europe ahead of teammate Raymond Kopa and Juventus' Welsh utility John Charles

Football Player and Coach Alfredo Di Stéfano

Let It Be Me

Dec 15 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me", an English translation of Gilbert Bécaud's French song "Je t'appartiens"; reaches No. 7 on the charts

Dec 16 Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48
Dec 17 "On The Beach" is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain

Baugh 1st Titans' Coach

Dec 18 Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of NY Titans (AFL)

American Football Player and Coach Sammy Baugh

Dec 19 1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0
Dec 20 Indian cricket spin bowler Jasubhai Patel takes 9-69 in Australia's 1st innings 219 in 2nd Test at Kanpur
Dec 21 10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7")
Dec 21 Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing

Tom Landry Joins Cowboys

Dec 21 Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)

Dec 22 Baseball's new Continental League awards its 7thfranchise to Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
Dec 22 NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
Dec 25 A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas

Bishop Wojtyla's Outdoor Mass

Dec 25 Bishop Karol Wojtyla (future Pope John Paul II) celebrates outdoor Mass at midnight of Christmas morning to demonstrate the need for a Catholic church in the community of Nowa Huta