October 1959 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1959 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature a New York team (LA vs. Chic)
• 02 Oct 1959 The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
• 03 Oct 1959 13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal
• 04 Oct 1959 1st World Series game played west of St. Louis (in LA)
• 06 Oct 1959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
• 07 Oct 1959 Happy Town opens at 84th St. Theater NYC for 5 performances
• 08 Oct 1959 At the Drop of a Hat opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 performances
• 09 Oct 1959 1st phone call between auto and plane (Delaware)
• 10 Oct 1959 Happy Town closes at 84th St. Theater NYC after 5 performances
• 11 Oct 1959 KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 12 Oct 1959 At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
• 13 Oct 1959 In Hamlet, Indiana, USA a building is hit by a falling meteorite.
• 14 Oct 1959 WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 15 Oct 1959 Untouchables premieres
• 17 Oct 1959 Billy Barnes Revue closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 87 performances
• 19 Oct 1959 Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel
• 20 Oct 1959 Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise
• 21 Oct 1959 Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
• 22 Oct 1959 Take Me Along opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 448 performances
• 23 Oct 1959 Chinese troops move into India, 17 die
• 26 Oct 1959 First photographs taken of the far side of the Moon, by Luna 3.
• 27 Oct 1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico.
• 28 Oct 1959 Buffalo Bills enter the AFL.
• 31 Oct 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.

Famous Birthday

• Simon Cowell

  English recording executive.

• Sarah Ferguson

  Royalty.

• Vincent Lagaf
• Weird Al Yankovic
• Nancy Grace

  American former prosecutor.

• Ken Watanabe

  Japanese actor.

• Zabou Breitman
• Alexandra Kazan
• Emeril Lagasse

  American chef once called "the gastronomical equivalent of Elvis," one of the most popular (and hammy) cooks to become an actor on his own...

• The Miracle of Fátima: the Holy Mother
• Marie Osmond

  TV Show Host.

• Sam Raimi

  American actor director producer and screenwriter.

• Carmen Russo

  Genoa, Italy -- Miss Teenage Italy (1972).

• Youssou N'Dour

  Senegalese singer-songwriter actor and politician.

• Evo Morales

  Bolivian soldier and politician 80th President of Bolivia.

• Jack Wagner

  Rocker / actor (General Hospital, Melrose Place).

• François Lamy

  French politician who, until his appointment as Junior Minister for Urban Affairs at the newly created Ministry of Territorial Equality and...

• Luis Fernandez
• Christina Amphlett
• Joël Giraud
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Famous Deaths

• Errol Flynn

  Australian-American actor.

• Mario Lanza

  Italian-American singer and actor, a great vocal phenomenon, the first recording artist to ever sell more than two million albums.

• Camilo Cienfuegos

  A leading figure of the Cuban Revolution, along with Fidel Castro and Ché Guevara.

• Arnoldt Bronnen

  Writer, dies at 63.

• George C Marshall

  US army General, dies at 78.

• Boughera El Quafi

  Marathoner (1928 Olympics - Gold Medalist), shot to death at 60.

• Stanley Bate

  Composer, dies at 45.

• Bob Murphy

  TV host (RFD America), dies at 42.

• Egon Kornauth

  Composer, dies at 68.

• Blonde Dolly [Sybille A J Niemans]

  Society prostitute, dies at 33.

• Boughera El Ouafi

  Algerian athlete (Born 1898).

• Bert Bell

  NFL hall of famer, dies at 64.

• Lipot Fejer

  Hungarian mathematician (Born 1880).

• Jean Cabannes

  French physicist specialising in optics.

• Friedrich

  German nobility, the Prince of Lüneburg from 1636 to 1648.

• Werner Krauss

  Actor (Joyless Street), dies at 75.

• Tochigiyama Moriya

  Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (Born 1892).

• Gerda Lundequist

  Swedish actress (Born 1871).

• Bernard Berenson

  Lithuanian-American historian and author (d. 1959).

• George Bouzianis

  Greek painter (Born 1885).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Santo and Johnny - Sleep Walk
2. Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife
3. Paul Anka - Put Your Head On My Shoulder
4. The Fleetwoods - Mr. Blue
5. The Browns - The Three Bells

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Craig Douglas - Only Sixteen
2. Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife
3. Cliff Richard & The Drifters - Living Doll
4. Jerry Keller - Here Comes Summer
5. The Everly Brothers - ('Til) I Kissed You