WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO JULY 1959
Find out what all happened April to July 1959

SR.N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over 2 hours. (25. July 1959)

The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference. (1. July 1959)

The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping. (25. April 1959)

Iakovos is enthroned as Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America. (1. April 1959)

The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles. (9. June 1959)

Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California. (14. June 1959)

The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail. (8. June 1959)

Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, marries Michiko. (10. April 1959)

The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in. (5. June 1959)

A group of Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of overthrowing the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed. (14. June 1959)

The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail. (19. May 1959)

Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. (7. July 1959)

Singapore was declared a self-governing state even though it was still a part of the British Empire. (3. June 1959)

First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union. (29. July 1959)

Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career. (23. June 1959)

The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships. (26. June 1959)

The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham. (30. May 1959)

A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood. (30. June 1959)

A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people. (23. June 1959)

The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history. (15. July 1959)