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    1959 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in October 1959: Aleksandr Alekseyev...
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    1959 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1959. 1959 (MCMLIX) was...
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    The 1959 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 8 October 1959. It marked a third consecutive victory for the ruling Conservative Party...
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    aggregate. 21 October 1959 20:00 CET Atletikstadion, Odense Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Włodzmierz Storoniak (Poland) 21 October 1959 20:30 CET Santiago...
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    A total solar eclipse occurred on October 2, 1959. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring...
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  • The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards. The top ten 1959 released films by box office...
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    Christopher Sean Lowe (born 4 October 1959) is an English musician, singer and songwriter, and co-founder of the synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, which he...
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    of State for the Colonies in 1961. The Conservatives comfortably won the 1959 general election, increasing their majority in the House of Commons, following...
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    Harold Macmillan (category UK MPs 1955–1959)
    July 1974, archived from the original on 3 October 2010, retrieved 31 January 2010 Lamb 1995, p. 62. "1959: Macmillan wins Tory hat trick". 5 April 2005...
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  • Early parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 25 and 26 October 1959. Following the electoral reforms made after the June elections, the Independence...
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    Corps Reserve, then flew to Europe and defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959. He lived in Minsk, Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, married a Russian...
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    After the agreement became effective on October 2, 1959, the JCS defined a system with DEFCONs in November 1959 for the military commands. The initial...
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  • Torvill, English figure skater 1959 – Dylan Baker, American actor 1959 – Simon Cowell, English businessman and record producer 1959 – Lourdes Flores, Peruvian...
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    several months of talks, the 1959–60 championship was the first nationwide league competition. It started on Sunday 25 October 1959 with the participation of...
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    the Legislative Council elections to be held under the 1959 Order-in-Council in October 1959. To increase the chances of Congress, he entered into electoral...
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    Mykhailovych Ananenko (Ukrainian: Олексій Михайлович Ананенко; born 13 October 1959) is a Ukrainian mechanical engineer who worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear...
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    definitively accepted by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale in October 1959. Some of the dogs were brought to the United States in 1955 and to the...
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  • 20 November 1959. p. 6. "Snooker Plus". The Glasgow Herald. 23 November 1959. p. 10. "Snooker Plus". The Glasgow Herald. 28 October 1959. p. 11. "Snooker...
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    (10 October 1959 – 2 February 1993) was a Romanian footballer who played as a left-back. Michael Klein, nicknamed Mișa, was born on 10 October 1959 in...
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  • Marcos Alonso Peña (1 October 1959 – 9 February 2023) was a Spanish football player and manager. Known simply as Marcos in his playing days, he played...
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    January 1959, his ex-wife sued for nonpayment of alimony. In March 1959, he was arrested for suspected hit-and-run drunk driving. In October 1959, he quit...
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  • Jindabyne). Filming began in 1959. Zinnemann spent 12 weeks filming scenery and sheep droving before the cast arrived in October. The weather made location...
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    Errol Flynn (category 1959 deaths)
    Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian actor who achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He...
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    without overdrive until mid-1959, when it was removed from the specifications, shortly before the London Motor Show in October that year. The cars had a...
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  • Affected by Walkout Defends Pay in TV Sales". The New York Times. 27 October 1959. p. 42. Vernon, Scott (28 May 1960). "U-2 Incident Causes Movie Repercussions"...
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    Zoological Park's construction was started on 26 October 1959 and opened to the public on 6 October 1963. The Park is run by forest department, Government...
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    formation of this state on 7 October 1949. From 1949 to 1959, the flags of both West and East Germany were identical. On 1 October 1959, the East German government...
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  • dead patients would receive a one-off ¥320,000 ($2935) payment. On 21 October 1959, Chisso was ordered by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry...
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    David Balfour Weld. She legally changed her name to Tuesday Weld on October 9, 1959. Left in financial difficulty by her husband's death, Weld's mother...
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  • The 1959 World Series featured the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers beating the American League champion Chicago White Sox, 4–2. Each of the...
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