December 1959 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1959 25th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Cannon, LSU (HB).
• 02 Dec 1959 Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus.
• 03 Dec 1959 State of emergency on Cyprus ends.
• 04 Dec 1959 A monkey returns to Earth safely, after being launched 55 miles high into outer space by the United States space program.
• 05 Dec 1959 Intikhab Alam bowls Colin McDonald with first ball in Tests.
• 07 Dec 1959 Saratoga opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
• 08 Dec 1959 Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta.
• 13 Dec 1959 Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus.
• 14 Dec 1959 J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513 metres.
• 15 Dec 1959 Everly Brothers record Let It Be Me
• 16 Dec 1959 Snow falling in Lowarai Pass, West Pakistan, kills 48.
• 17 Dec 1959 On The Beach, is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain
• 18 Dec 1959 Sammy Baugh named first coach of New York Titans (AFL).
• 20 Dec 1959 Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India versus Australia at Kanpur.
• 21 Dec 1959 10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7)
• 22 Dec 1959 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Fort Worth.
• 25 Dec 1959 A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas
• 27 Dec 1959 Baltimore Colts beat the New York Giants 31-16 in NFL championship game
• 29 Dec 1959 Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled ''There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom'', which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology; the Lisbon Metro begins operation.
• 30 Dec 1959 George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned

Famous Birthday

• Val Kilmer

  American actor, writer, musician, he played Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's production, "The Doors" in 1991.

• Corinne Touzet

  French actress (especially TV), comedian on stage, and producer, of West Indian descent.

• Florence Griffith Joyner

  American athlete (Born 1959).

• Bernd Schuster

  German footballer and manager.

• Tracey Ullman

  British comedienne, a boisterous, original player on screen, stage and TV.

• Loïc Peyron
• Ana Torroja

  Spanish singer-songwriter (Mecano).

• Patricia Clarkson

  American actress.

• Christian Jacob

  French politician, who was the Minister of French Civil Service in Jacques Chirac's second term as President of France.

• Hervé Paul
• Hervé Di Rosa

  French contemporary painter.

• Satoru Iwata

  Japanese video game industry executive.

• Richard Roman

  French homicide suspect in the Céline Jourdan case, where the six-year-old girl was raped and murdered on 7/26/1988.

• Christophe Auguin

  French sailor, the winner of the boat challenge in Sydney.

• Lee Daniels

  Director.

• Paula Poundstone

  American comedienne, arrested on 6/27/2001, 3:10 PM, Malibu, on charges of child sexual abuse with a 13-year-old girl on three occasions,...

• Michael Philip Anderson
• Al Giordano

  American newspaper journalist, sells free-lance to magazines.

• Wolf Larson
• Lee Chapman

  English footballer.

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Famous Deaths

• Henri Vidal

  French film actor who made his film debut alongside Edith Piaf in the movie Montmartre-sur-Seine in 1941.

• Dorothy L Sayers

  Writer, dies at 66.

• Edward FLW Halifax

  English viscount / Viceroy of India, dies at 78.

• Lester Lonergan Jr

  Actor (Growing Paynes), dies at 65.

• Walter Compton

  News anchor (DuMont Evening News), dies at 47.

• Robin Humphrey Milford

  Composer, dies at 56.

• Rosanjin

  Japanese calligrapher, restaurateur and ceramicist (Born 1883).

• Maria EG "Lizzy" Ansingh Dutch painter (Cast Off)

  dies at age 84.

• Lord Irwin

  ambassador to US (1940-46), dies at age 78.

• Maria Baers

  Flemish social female worker/senator, dies at age 76.

• Ante Pavelic

  leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (Born 1889).

• Robin Milford

  British composer (Born 1903).

• Alfonso Reyes

  Mexican lawyer and diplomat.

• Walter Williams

  American civil engineer and CEO of Bethlehem Steel, a large, noted steel production and manufacturing company.

• Jim Bottomley

  American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1959).

• Russell Simpson

  Actor (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 79.

• Rosetta Duncan

  (Duncan Sisters) dies in an auto accident at age 58.

• Len Doyle

  Actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), dies at 66.

• Gilda Gray

  Polish-American actress singer and dancer (d. 1959).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife
2. Guy Mitchell - Heartaches By The Number
3. Frankie Avalon - Why
4. Della Reese - Don't You Know
5. The Fleetwoods - Mr. Blue

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Adam Faith - What Do You Want?
2. Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife
3. Emile Ford & The Checkmates - What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?
4. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Travellin' Light
5. Neil Sedaka - Oh Carol