July 1959 calendar

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

Famous Birthday

• Kevin Spacey

  American actor, winner of the Oscar as best actor on 26 March 2000.

• Victoria Abril

  Spanish actress; her credits include roles in Pedro Almodovar's "Tie Me Up" and "Lovers".

• Vincent Lindon

  French film actor.

• Sanjay Dutt

  Indian film actor and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema.

• Richie Sambora

  American musician, a lead guitarist with "Bon Jovi.

• Suzanne Vega

  American singer-songwriter guitarist and producer.

• Caroline Tresca

  French TV host, stage actress, and painter, great-granddaughter of composer Vincent d'Indy.

• Jim Kerr

  Scottish musician, a singer and co-founder of the punk group "Simple Minds" along with Michael MacNeil and Derek Forbes, 1978.

• Marc Cécillon
• Patrick Timsit

  French comedian, writer and film director.

• Tobias Moretti
• Jessica Hahn

  American news figure with a penchant for preachers.

• Robert Knepper

  American actor.

• Malcolm Jones
• Nerine Kidd Shatner
• Rolonda Watts

  American talk-show host with her own show, "Rolanda" making its debut in January 1995.

• Billy Campbell

  American actor.

• Tokia Saïfi
• Siobhan Redmond

  Scottish actress and comedienne, star of a Scottish TV sitcom "The High Life" in the role of Shona Spurtle.

• Richard Dacoury

  French basketball player.

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Famous Deaths

• Billie Holiday

  American blues and jazz singer nicknamed "Lady Day,” whose incomparable voice was the essence of jazz.

• Charlie Parker

  Known as "Yardbird" and "Bird", was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

• Charlie Parker

  Known as "Yardbird" and "Bird", was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

• Manuel Altolaguirre

  Spanish Poet / publisher (Amor), dies at 54.

• Isaac Halevi Herzog

  Chief rabbi of Israel (1936-59), dies at 71.

• William D Leahy

  American admiral (Born 1875).

• Dale Buisand

  and Chester Ovnand are first Americans killed in Vietnam War.

• Grock [Adrien Wettach]

  Swiss clown / circus director, dies at 79.

• Ernest Bloch

  American composer whose music reflects Jewish cultural and liturgical themes as well as European post-Romantic traditions.

• George Grosz

  German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s.

• Henri Pourrat

  French writer and anthropologist who collected the oral literature of the Auvergne.

• Vance Palmer

  Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic (Born 1885).

• Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

  Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel (Born 1888).

• Peter A Egge

  Norwegian writer (The Dream).

• Harry Fox II

  Dies at 77.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Johnny Horton - The Battle Of New Orleans
2. Paul Anka - Lonely Boy
3. Lloyd Price - Personality
4. Fabian - Tiger
5. Bobby Darin - Dream Lover

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Russ Conway - Roulette
2. Bobby Darin - Dream Lover
3. Elvis Presley - A Fool Such As I / I Need Your Love Tonight
4. Marty Wilde - A Teenager In Love
5. Lonnie Donegan - Battle Of New Orleans