June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
Day of death September 16, 1959
The temperature on September 16, 1959 was between 5.5 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 29 » The first Melodifestivalen is held in Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden.
February 28 » Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit.
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 14 » Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
July 21 » NSSavannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative.
October 7 » The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
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