Editing 1959 (section)

== 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]].