1959: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 23:54, 6 November 2023

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 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.

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