January 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
Day of death October 28, 1959
The temperature on October 28, 1959 was between 1.2 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 2 » Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
February 22 » Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
April 8 » A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
June 5 » The first government of Singapore is sworn in.
August 17 » Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
September 27 » Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
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