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.
*June 5 - [[Lee Kuan Yew]] is named the first Prime Minister of Singapore.
*July 25 - The "Kitchen Debate" occurs between U.S. Vice President [[Richard Nixon]] and Soviet Premier [[Nikita Khrushchev]].
*July 31 - [[ETA]] is founded.
*November 2 - Beginning of the Rwandan Revolution. 
*Unknown - [[Fatah]] is founded by [[Yasser Arafat]].
== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
*January 20 - [[Joel Rifkin]]
*March 1 - [[Nick Griffin]]
*July 25 - [[Anatoly Onoprienko]]
*July 26 - [[Michael Bruce Ross]]
*August 1 - [[Ángel Maturino Reséndiz]]
*August 17 - [[David Koresh]]
*August 19 - [[Anthony Sowell]]
*August 21 - [[Shawn Nelson]]
*October 25 - [[Kieran Fleming]]
*October 29 - [[John Magufuli]]
*November 22 - [[Pamela Ann Fahy]]
*December 1 - [[Emmanuel Rukundo]]
*Unknown - [[Roy Whiting]]
=== Victim births ===
== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
*February 7 - [[Daniel François Malan]]
*June 23 - [[Fritz Kraemer]]
*June 25 - [[Charles Starkweather]]
*July 27 - [[Aleksandar Tsankov]]
*September 18 - [[Harvey Glatman]]
*October 9 - [[Shirō Ishii]]
*December 28 - [[Ante Pavelić]]
=== Victim deaths ===