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| 1959 |
| | | The St Lawrence Seaway, a joint Canadian and US project, links the Great Lakes and the sea | |
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| 1959 |
| | | US author William Burroughs' Naked Lunch, an account of the horrors of a junkie's life, is published in Paris | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Harold Pinter's second play in London's West End, The Caretaker, immediately brings him an international reputation | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Rwanda suffers the first nationwide outbreak of Hutu violence against Tutsis | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Australian Grand Prix driver Jack Brabham wins the first of his three Formula One titles | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Philip Roth publishes his first book, Goodbye, Columbus, a novella and five short stories | |
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| 1959 |
| | | British author Laurie Lee remembers a Cotswold boyhood in Cider with Rosie | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Billy Wright becomes the first football player to win 100 caps for England | |
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| 1959 |
| | | William Gibson's play The Miracle Worker dramatizes the extraordinary story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum opens in New York after seventeen years of work on the project | |
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