July 1959 calendar

July 1959
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in July 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 July 1959: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of July 1959?

Events

01 Jul 1959 Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany
02 Jul 1959 Plan 9 From Outer Space, one of the worse films ever, premieres
03 Jul 1959 73rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Alex Olmedo beats Rod Laver (64 63 64)
04 Jul 1959 66th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Darlene Hard (64 63)
05 Jul 1959 Indonesia restores constitution
06 Jul 1959 5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
07 Jul 1959 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
09 Jul 1959 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Open
12 Jul 1959 NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during ankee-Red Sox game
14 Jul 1959 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach - Quincy, Massachusetts
15 Jul 1959 The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
17 Jul 1959 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis
18 Jul 1959 1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)
19 Jul 1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance
20 Jul 1959 The Organization for European Economic Cooperation admits Spain.
21 Jul 1959 Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green)
22 Jul 1959 Earth gas found at Kolham (Slochteren) Groningen
23 Jul 1959 VP Richard Nixon begins visit on USSR
24 Jul 1959 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
25 Jul 1959 SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
26 Jul 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open
27 Jul 1959 Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India vs. England on debut
28 Jul 1959 Great-Britain starts using postal codes
29 Jul 1959 First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
30 Jul 1959 In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
31 Jul 1959 1st exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
01 Jul 1959 Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the US, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.