WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1959
Find out what all happened June to December 1959

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

Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless. (26. September 1959)

Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns. (19. September 1959)

Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens. (11. August 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)

Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League. (14. August 1959)

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA. (21. October 1959)

The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it. (14. September 1959)

French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals". (23. November 1959)

Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people. (3. August 1959)

Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus. (13. December 1959)

A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35. (20. June 1959)

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

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

Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana. (17. August 1959)

The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design, and was minted until 2008. (7. August 1959)

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established. (8. September 1959)

Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon. (27. September 1959)

Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology. (29. December 1959)

Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day. (25. September 1959)