November 1959 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1959 Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Baltimore
• 02 Nov 1959 Girls against the Boys opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 performances
• 04 Nov 1959 Ernie Banks, Chicago Cubs' shortstop, wins National League Most Valuable Player.
• 05 Nov 1959 AFL announced with 8 teams
• 08 Nov 1959 KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
• 10 Nov 1959 Corinne Rottschaeffer elected Miss World
• 11 Nov 1959 1st episode of Rocky & His Friends airs
• 12 Nov 1959 The Warner Bros. religious epic ''The Miracle'', very loosely based on the 1911 stage pantomime ''Das Mirakel'', is released. It is a critical and financial bomb.
• 14 Nov 1959 Girls against the Boys closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 16 performances
• 15 Nov 1959 Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas. Dick Hickock and Perry Smith were ultimately caught and convicted of the murders.
• 16 Nov 1959 Sound of Music opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 1443 performances
• 17 Nov 1959 Giants slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie of Year
• 18 Nov 1959 Washingston Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year
• 19 Nov 1959 Rocky & His Friends debuts on ABC
• 20 Nov 1959 WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal
• 21 Nov 1959 Max Baer, American heavyweight boxing champion (1934), dies at age 49.
• 22 Nov 1959 Boston Patriots enter the AFL.
• 23 Nov 1959 Fiorello! opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 796 performances
• 25 Nov 1959 Once Upon a Mattress opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 460 performances
• 28 Nov 1959 47th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 21-7
• 30 Nov 1959 Joe Foss named first commissioner of AFL.

Famous Birthday

• Bryan Adams

  Rock Singer.

• Richard Attias
• Tina Kieffer

  French TV journalist, a reporter and Editor in Chief of a magazine.

• Florence (Italy)
• Sean Young

  American actress onscreen from 1977 with film credits that included "Blade Runner," "Dune" and "No Way Out.

• Allison Janney

  American actress, winner of an Emmy in September 2000 for her role as the White House strong, dedicated press secretary in the hit TV series...

• Harlem Désir

  French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France since 1999.

• Antoine Duléry

  French actor abd imitator.

• Judd Nelson

  American actor.

• MacKenzie Phillips

  American actress and noted family, the daughter of John Phillips, formerly of the "Mamas and Papas.

• Lorraine Kelly

  Scottish newspaper journalist, BBC researcher, 1983, and presenter for AM-TV from 1984-1992.

• Rahm Emanuel

  American politician, chief of staff for most of President Barack Obama's first term in office and elected Mayor of Chicago on February 22,...

• Cherie Currie

  American singer and actress who got her start singing for The Runaways, an all-female hard rock band from the late 1970s that also included...

• Joëlle Ursull
• Sandra Bookman
• Charlie Burchill

  British rock musician, guitarist, violinist and saxophonist with the group Simple Minds.

• Karla Faye Tucker
• Maxwell Caulfield

  British actor.

• Tom Novembre
• Dominique Dunne

  Actress (Poltergeist), murdered by boyfriend at 23.

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Famous Deaths

• Lupino Lane

  Actress (Deputy Drummer), dies at 67.

• Frederick Preston Search

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Edward C Tolman

  US psychologist (behaviorism).

• Gerard J Arbous

  Actor / publicist (Bohemian Amsterdam), dies at 83.

• Lyman Bryson

  Educator (UN Casebook), dies at 71.

• Yuri N Libedinski

  Ukrainen writer (Commissioners), dies at 60.

• Albert William Ketelby

  Composer, dies at 84.

• Gerard Philipe

  Actor / director (La Ronde, Gambler), dies of cancer at 36.

• Lester Vail

  Actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies on 59th birthday.

• Fritz Brun

  Composer, dies at 81.

• Hans Henny Jahnn

  Writer, dies at 64.

• Thomas Ross

  Actor (Without Limit), dies at 84.

• Albert Ketelbey

  British composer (Born 1875).

• Gershon Agron

  mayor of Jerusalem, dies at age 66.

• Frank Sherman Land

  American Freemason (Born 1890).

• Gerard Philipe

  French actor (Born 1922).

• Max Baer

  American actor best known for his role as Jethro Bodine in the television series, "The Beverly Hillbillies.

• Michael Considine

  Irish-Australian politician (d. 1959).

• Heitor Villa-Lobos

  Brazilian Composer / pianist / conductor, dies at 72.

• Dally Messenger

  Australian rugby player cricketer and sailor (d. 1959).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife
2. The Fleetwoods - Mr. Blue
3. Paul Anka - Put Your Head On My Shoulder
4. Della Reese - Don't You Know
5. Sandy Nelson - Teen Beat

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife
2. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Travellin' Light
3. Jerry Keller - Here Comes Summer
4. The Everly Brothers - ('Til) I Kissed You
5. Emile Ford & The Checkmates - What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?