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| 1959 |
| | | Fidel Castro begins more than four decades of authoritarian rule in Cuba | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Alaska becomes the 49th state of the USA | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Soviet spacecraft Luna 1 goes into orbit round the sun, between the orbits of Earth and Mars | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Pope John XXIII summons a second Vatican Council | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Francis Poulenc and Jean Cocteau collaborate on La Voix Humaine, a concerto for soprano voice and orchestra | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Australian soprano Joan Sutherland becomes a star overnight with her performance at Covent Garden in Lucia di Lammermoor | |
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| 1959 |
| | | In the Hola camp, in Kenya, eleven Mau Mau prisoners die from their treatment at the hand of British forces | |
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| 1959 |
| | | The Dalai Lama escapes from Tibet to India after the Chinese suppression of an armed uprising costing thousands of lives | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Alfred Hitchcock directs Cary Grant in North by Northwest | |
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| 1959 |
| | | German novelist Günter Grass has an immediate success with his first novel, The Tin Drum | |
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