March 1959 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1959 Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after three years.
• 03 Mar 1959 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched
• 05 Mar 1959 Iran and US sign economic and military treaty.
• 06 Mar 1959 11st Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr
• 07 Mar 1959 Bells Are Ringing closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 925 performances
• 08 Mar 1959 KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 09 Mar 1959 Juno opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 16 performances
• 10 Mar 1959 Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet
• 11 Mar 1959 Raisin in the Sun, 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens
• 12 Mar 1959 US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood.
• 15 Mar 1959 WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 16 Mar 1959 Iraq and the USSR sign economic / technical treaty
• 17 Mar 1959 Australia and the USSR restore diplomatic relations
• 19 Mar 1959 1st Impressions opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 84 performances
• 21 Mar 1959 Juno closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 16 performances
• 22 Mar 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament.
• 24 Mar 1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact.
• 25 Mar 1959 Bill White traded to Saint Louis Cardinals for pitchers Sam Jones and Don Choate.
• 26 Mar 1959 Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad versus West Indies age 15 years 124 days.
• 28 Mar 1959 The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the Government of Tibet.
• 29 Mar 1959 Some Like it Hot with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon premieres
• 30 Mar 1959 WNED TV channel 17 in Buffalo, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 31 Mar 1959 Dalai Lama fled China and was granted political asylum in India

Famous Birthday

• Luc Besson

  French director of "The Big Blue," the story of Jacques Mayol, a champion skin-diver nicknamed the "human dolphin.

• Nina Hartley

  American porno superstar with numerous X-Cinema awards.

• Fabio Lanzoni

  Italian-American model, a gorgeous 6'3", 225 lb hunk with turquoise eyes, honey colored long blond hair with a face that has launched a...

• Patrick Dupond

  French ballet dancer, choreographer, and actor, one of the most famous and talented figures of contemporary ballet.

• Pascal Légitimus

  French humorist and actor, son of an American theater seamstress of Armenian origin and born to an Antillean father, and grand-son of...

• Marisol Touraine

  French politician who serves as Minister of Social Affairs and Health under Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and under Prime Minister Manuel...

• Irene Cara

  American entertainer, an accomplished singer, actress and composer with an 18-year career by age 25.

• Bambou (singer)
• Catherine Keener

  American actress and producer.

• Aidan Quinn

  TV Actor.

• Matthew Modine

  American actor director producer and screenwriter.

• Tom Arnold

  American actor and comedian, a man in perpetual motion.

• Flavor Flav

  American rapper, and reality TV star.

• Jean-François Abgrall

  French gendarme, famous for his investigation of the serial killer Francis Heaulme.

• Talia Balsam

  Movie Actress.

• Thierry Claveyrolat

  French road bicycle racer.

• Denis Balbir
• Kato Kaelin

  American newsfigure and minor entertainer, best known as a friend of Nicole and O.J.

• Brian McGee
• Zoé Chauveau
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Famous Deaths

• Lester Young

  American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1959).

• Lou Costello

  Paterson, New Jersey -- Comedian / actor (Abbott and Costello).

• Haydn Wood

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Raymond T Chandler

  US detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies at age 71.

• Grant Withers

  Actor (Okla Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54.

• Sara Wennerberg-Reuter

  Composer, dies at 84.

• Peter Suhrkamp

  German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag), dies at 68.

• Maxey Long

  American athlete (Born 1878).

• Barthelemy Boganda

  first President of the Central African Republic (Born 1910).

• Daniil Andreev

  Russian writer and mystic (Born 1906).

• Hinsdale Smith

  developer of roll-down auto windows, dies at age 88.

• John Sailling

  last documented US Civil War veteran, dies at age 111.

• Richie Valens

  rock vocalist ('Donna', 'La Bamba'), killed in plane crash in Iowa at age 17.

• Riccardo Zanella

  president of Free State of Fiume (Born 1875).

• Billy Mayerl

  English pianist and composer (d. 1959).

• Raymond Chandler

  American author and screenwriter (d. 1959).

• Fred Stone

  Actor (Hideaway, Westerner), dies at 85.

• Arthur C Pigou

  English economist (Economics of Welfare).

• Eric Blore

  English actor (Born 1887).

• Abdel Wahab Shawwaf

  Iraqi Colonel / putschist, murdered.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee
2. Frankie Avalon - Venus
3. Ritchie Valens - Donna
4. The Coasters - Charlie Brown
5. The Crests - 16 Candles

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Shirley Bassey - As I Love You
2. The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
3. Elvis Presley - One Night / I Got Stung
4. Russ Conway - Side Saddle
5. Shirley Bassey - Kiss Me Honey Honey Kiss Me