WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO OCTOBER 1959
Find out what all happened September to October 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)

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)

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

The 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China is celebrated across the country. (1. October 1959)

Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States. (15. September 1959)

Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color. (12. September 1959)

Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit. (18. September 1959)

The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia's first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait. (23. September 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)

The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television. (2. October 1959)

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

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

The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City. (16. September 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. (12. October 1959)

The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon. (12. September 1959)

Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. (23. September 1959)

In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens to the public. (21. October 1959)

U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. (7. October 1959)

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