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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 |
| | | 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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| 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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