March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
Day of death March 16, 1959
The temperature on March 16, 1959 was between 2.9 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
April 9 » Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
July 21 » Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
August 17 » Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
September 14 » The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
September 27 » Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
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