June 1959 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1959 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area
• 02 Jun 1959 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem Lysergic Acid, San Francisco
• 03 Jun 1959 1st class graduates from Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado
• 05 Jun 1959 Bob Dylan graduates Hibbing HS in Minnesota
• 07 Jun 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
• 08 Jun 1959 First official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Florida, USA).
• 09 Jun 1959 The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
• 10 Jun 1959 Rocky Colovito hits four home runs in one game.
• 11 Jun 1959 US Postmaster General bans D.H. Lawrence's book Lady Chatterley's Lover.
• 12 Jun 1959 San Francisco Giants' Mike McCormick no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 3-0 in five-inning game.
• 13 Jun 1959 Sammy Kaye Show, last airs on ABC-TV
• 14 Jun 1959 The Matterhorn Mountain with its Matterhorn Bobsleds ride opens in Fantasyland at Disneyland in California. It is the first thrill ride at Disneyland, and the first ride to use cylindrical rails and urethane wheels. The mountain is 147 feet high, 1/100th the height of the real Matterhorn mountain, and uses 2175 steel girders. Final cost of the attraction is US$1.5 million.
• 17 Jun 1959 Eamon de Valera elected President of Ireland
• 18 Jun 1959 First telecast transmitted from England to US.
• 19 Jun 1959 US Senate rejects President Dwight Eisenhower's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Secretary of Commerce.
• 20 Jun 1959 A rare June hurricane struck Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
• 22 Jun 1959 Along Came Jones by Coasters peaks at #9
• 23 Jun 1959 A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people.
• 26 Jun 1959 Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavywgt boxing title
• 27 Jun 1959 West Side Story closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 performances
• 28 Jun 1959 Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants 6-0)
• 29 Jun 1959 Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical On truth, unity, and peace, in charity
• 30 Jun 1959 During a game in Wrigley Field, two balls are in play at same time.

Famous Birthday

• Hugh Laurie

  English actor, comedian, writer, musician, and director.

• Nicola Sirkis

  French frontman and singer of the pop-rock band Indochine, born to a Moldavian father.

• Anne Hidalgo

  French politician of Spanish descent, she grew up in Lyon.

• Vincent d'Onofrio
• Carlo Ancelotti

  Italian coach of the Juventus soccer team, taking over from Marcello Lippi on 2/08/1999.

• Mike Pence
• Alan Wilder

  British rock musician who does the electronics and plays the synthesizer with "Depeche Mode.

• Eddie Kidd

  British motorcycle stunt rider.

• Thierry Rey

  Belgian athlete in the sport of judo (super light category).

• French presidential election 1969
• Eileen Davidson

  American actress who plays in the soap opera, "The Young and the Restless.

• Stéphane Sirkis

  French musician in the new wave band Indochine, along with his twin brother Nicola Sirkis.

• François Morel

  French actor, screenwriter, and singer.

• Joëlle Aubron
• Josie Lawrence

  British actress and alternative comedienne, noted for her work in the improv TV show, "Whose Line is it Anyway?," which began in 1988.

• Eliot Spitzer

  American politician, New York State's Attorney General and Governor.

• Lydia Lunch

  American singer-songwriter guitarist and actress (Teenage Jesus and the Jerks 8-Eyed Spy Harry Crews and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult).

• Colin Quinn

  American actor and comedian, an MTV co-host on "Remote Control.

• Juanita Jordan
• Christian Wulff

  German politician, President of Germany from 2010 to 2012.

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Famous Deaths

• Boris Vian

  French writer, actor, engineer, jazz musician, artist, and essayist.

• Charles Starkweather

  American homicide; a mass murderer by the time he was 18.

• George Reeves

  Actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), shoots self at 45.

• Charles Vidor

  Budapest, Hungary -- Direct (Rhapsody, Gilda, Cover Girl).

• Hitoshi Ashida

  Japanese politician, dies at 71.

• Lazare Saminsky

  Composer, dies at 76.

• A Cecil Snyder

  Chief Justice of Puerto Rico, dies at age 51.

• Abdul Mouse

  Indonesian nationalist foreman / author, dies at about 68.

• Jose Vasconcelos

  Mexican writer, philosopher and politician.

• Hermann Brill

  German lawyer and politician 8th Minister-President of Thuringia (d. 1959).

• Sax Rohmer

  English-American author (d. 1959).

• Zoltan Mesko

  Hungarian Nazi (Born 1883).

• Ethel Barrymore [Blythe]

  Actress (None but the lonely), dies at 79.

• Jean Gallon

  Composer, dies at 80.

• Ole Windingstad

  Composer, dies at 73.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Johnny Horton - The Battle Of New Orleans
2. Wilbert Harrison - Kansas City
3. Bobby Darin - Dream Lover
4. Lloyd Price - Personality
5. Martin Denny - Quiet Village

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Elvis Presley - A Fool Such As I / I Need Your Love Tonight
2. Russ Conway - Roulette
3. Buddy Holly - It Doesn't Matter Anymore
4. Bobby Darin - Dream Lover
5. Ricky Nelson - It's Late