Editing 1959

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== Events ==
*January 1 - End of the Battle of Santa Clara. [[Fulgencio Batista]] is overthrown as dictator of Cuba by [[Fidel Castro]]'s [[26th of July Movement]], who assume control of the country.
*January 3 - [[Robert Byrd]] is elected to the United States Senate.
*March - The [[American Nazi Party]] is founded by [[George Lincoln Rockwell]].
*April 17 - [[Vito Genovese]], boss of the Genovese crime family, is convicted of drug trafficking and is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
*May 17 - [[Che Guevara]] launches the first Cuban land reform campaign.
*May 23 - Beginning of the Laotian Civil War.
*June 5 - [[Lee Kuan Yew]] is named the first Prime Minister of Singapore.
*June 19 - The [[National Party (South Africa)|National Party]] passes the Bantu Self-Governence Act, which orders all Colored people to be removed from South Africa proper and relocated to designed homelands (Bantustans) within the country's borders.
*July 25 - At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, United States Vice President [[Richard Nixon]] and USSR Premier [[Nikita Khrushchev]] engage in the "Kitchen Debate".
*July 31 - [[ETA]] is founded.
*August - Beginning of the Great Chinese Famine.
*August 5 - [[Maurice Yaméogo]] is named the first President of Upper Volta.
*November 2 - Beginning of the Rwandan Revolution. 
*November 15 - The Clutter family murders take place in Holcomb, Kansas when all four members of the Clutter family are killed by [[Perry Edward Smith]] and [[Richard Hickock]].
*Unknown - [[Fatah]] is founded by [[Yasser Arafat]].

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
*January 20 - [[Joel Rifkin]]
*January 26 - [[Roy Whiting]]
*February 3 - [[Jeff Doucet]]
*March 1 - [[Nick Griffin]]
*July 7 - [[John Miller]]
*July 25 - [[Anatoly Onoprienko]]
*July 26 - [[Michael Bruce Ross]]
*August 1 - [[Ángel Maturino Reséndiz]]
*August 8 - [[Frank R. James]]
*August 17 - [[David Koresh]]
*August 19 - [[Anthony Sowell]]
*August 21 - [[Shawn Nelson]]
*August 27 - [[Gundolf Köhler]]
*October 25 - [[Kieran Fleming]]
*October 29 - [[John Magufuli]]
*November 22 - [[Pamela Ann Fahy]]
*December 1 - [[Emmanuel Rukundo]]
*December 18 - [[Charles Stuart]]
*Unknown - [[Pascal Simbikangwa]]
*Unknown - [[Andrew Hall]]

=== Victim births ===
*May 19 - Nicole Brown Simpson
*May 30 - Winfield Mowder
*June - Aaron Webster
*October 17 - Marie Lilienberg
*November 23 - Dominique Dunne  
*December 27 - Margaret Fetterolf
*Unknown - Steven Hicks

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
*February 7 - [[Daniel François Malan]]
*June 22 - [[Karl Jäger]]
*June 23 - [[Fritz Kraemer]]
*June 25 - [[Charles Starkweather]]
*July 27 - [[Aleksandar Tsankov]]
*September 18 - [[Harvey Glatman]]
*October 9 - [[Shirō Ishii]]
*October 14 - [[Günther Tamaschke]]
*October 15 - [[Stepan Bandera]]
*December 28 - [[Ante Pavelić]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* June 17 - Elizabeth Figg
* November 15 - Herbert, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon Clutter