The temperature on May 23, 1959 was between 8.9 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 14.6 hours of sunshine (91%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
February 3 » Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
April 9 » Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
June 23 » 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.
October 21 » In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.
December 3 » The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
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