October 1959 calendar

October 1959
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in October 1959.
The US president was Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Harold Macmillan (Conservative), Pope John XXIII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on October 1959: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of October 1959?

Events

01 Oct 1959 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature a New York team (LA vs. Chic)
02 Oct 1959 The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
03 Oct 1959 13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal
04 Oct 1959 1st World Series game played west of St. Louis (in LA)
06 Oct 1959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
07 Oct 1959 Happy Town opens at 84th St. Theater NYC for 5 performances
08 Oct 1959 At the Drop of a Hat opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 performances
09 Oct 1959 1st phone call between auto and plane (Delaware)
10 Oct 1959 Happy Town closes at 84th St. Theater NYC after 5 performances
11 Oct 1959 KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
12 Oct 1959 At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
13 Oct 1959 In Hamlet, Indiana, USA a building is hit by a falling meteorite.
14 Oct 1959 WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
15 Oct 1959 Untouchables premieres
17 Oct 1959 Billy Barnes Revue closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 87 performances
19 Oct 1959 Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel
20 Oct 1959 Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise
21 Oct 1959 Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
22 Oct 1959 Take Me Along opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 448 performances
23 Oct 1959 Chinese troops move into India, 17 die
26 Oct 1959 First photographs taken of the far side of the Moon, by Luna 3.
27 Oct 1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico.
28 Oct 1959 Buffalo Bills enter the AFL.
31 Oct 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.
21 Oct 1959 In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.