1959

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.

Map of the world in 1959, highlighting the main world affairs of the year
January 8 : Fidel Castro arrives in Havana
February 17 : Technical drawing of Vanguard 2
May 28 : Miss Baker awaits launch.
July 24 : Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and USA Vice President Richard Nixon engage in the Kitchen Debate
August 7 : Launch of Explorer 6
Track of a tropical cyclone as represented by colored dots; each dot represents the storm's position and intensity at 6-hour intervals.
September 26 : Typhoon Vera storm path
Map key
Saffir–Simpson scale
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
triangle Extratropical cyclone , remnant low, tropical disturbance, or monsoon depression
October 21 : Atrium of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright .
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
Suzanne Vega
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
Cecil B. DeMille
The Big Bopper
Buddy Holly
Baby Dodds
Lou Costello
Ichirō Hatoyama
Frank Lloyd Wright
John Foster Dulles
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
Hitoshi Ashida
Billie Holiday
William D. Leahy
William Halsey Jr.
Edmund Gwenn
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
Errol Flynn
George Marshall
Jose P. Laurel
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Ante Pavelić