The temperature on December 31, 1959 was between 4.4 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 9 » The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
March 18 » The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.
July 15 » The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
July 24 » At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
September 25 » Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
November 2 » The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
Day of death January 6, 1960
The temperature on January 6, 1960 was between 2.3 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
April 25 » The United States Navy submarine USSTriton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
June 26 » Madagascar gains its independence from France.
July 20 » The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USSGeorge Washington, for the first time.
October 4 » An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.
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