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Jul 24, 2008

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Year by Year: 1900-2008	View a 1959 calendar

World Events

• Cuban President Batista resigns and flees (Jan. 1). Fidel Castro assumes power (Feb. 16).
  
  
• Tibet's Dalai Lama escapes to India (Mar. 31).
  
  
• Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev tours the United States, meeting with Eisenhower at Camp David.
  
  
• Britain recognizes the independence of Cyprus.
  
  

U.S. Events

• Alaska (Jan. 3) and Hawaii (Aug. 21) become the 49th and 50th states.
  
  
• St. Lawrence Seaway opens, allowing ocean ships to reach Midwest (April 25).
  
  

Economics

Sports

World Series

NBA Championship

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Basketball Championship

NCAA Football Champions

Entertainment

Events

• The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences sponsors the first Grammy Award ceremony for music recorded in 1958.
• Frank Sinatra wins his first Grammy Award -- Best Album for Come Dance with Me.
• Rumors of cheating on quiz shows erupt into a national scandal.

Movies

• Some Like It Hot, North by Northwest, Ben-Hur, Anatomy of a Murder, Room at the Top

Books

• William Burroughs, Naked Lunch
• D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Robert Lowell, Life Studies
• Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself
• James A. Michener, Hawaii
• Grace Paley, The Little Disturbances of Man
• Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
• Philip Roth, Goodbye Columbus and Five Short Stories

Science

• Jack S. Kilby of Texas Instruments (US) supervises the development of the first integrated circuit. Background: Computers and Internet
• The US Navy launches the Vanguard satellite.
• The Lunik II probe (USSR) reaches the moon; Lunik III photographs the dark side of the moon for the first time. Background: Space Exploration

Deaths

• Lou Costello
  
  
• Cecil B. De Mille
  
  
• Mel Ott
  
  
• Frank Lloyd Wright
  
  

Year by Year: 1900-2008

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