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| 1959 |
| | West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott founds the Trinidad Theatre Workshop | |
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| 1959 |
| | Keith Waterhouse has a wide success with his second novel, Billy Liar | |
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| 1959 |
| | Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the USA | |
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| 1959 |
| | Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 successfully strikes the moon, in the Palus Putredinus region | |
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| 1959 |
| | Asterix, written by René Goscinny and drawn by Albert Uderzo, makes his first appearance, in the French magazine Pilote | |
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| 1959 |
| | Solomon Bandaranaike is assassinated by a Buddhist monk after only three years as prime minister of Sri Lanka | |
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| 1959 |
| | A group of dancers leave the Netherlands Ballet and establish their own Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague | |
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| 1959 |
| | The Conservative party wins the UK general election with their highest ever vote and an increased majority | |
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| 1959 |
| | Iain Macleod, appointed colonial secretary in Macmillan's new government, intends to speed up the independence of British colonies | |
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| 1959 |
| | Soviet spacecraft Luna 3, passing by the moon at a distance of some 40,000 miles, is able to photograph the far side | |
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