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1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1959th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 959th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1950s decade.
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January 1 – Andy Andrews, American tennis playerJanuary 2 – Joe Bevilacqua, radio producer and dramatistJanuary 5 – Clancy Brown, actor and voice actorJanuary 8 – Keith Rodden, NASCAR crew chiefFebruary 1 – Wade Wilson, American football player and coach (died 2019)February 4February 14 – Renée Fleming, sopranoFebruary 16 – John McEnroe, tennis playerMarch 6 – Lars Larson, conservative talk show hostMarch 8March 17March 18 – Irene Cara, singer-songwriter and film actress (d. 2022)April 3 – David Hyde Pierce, actorApril 13 – Kim Guadagno, first Lt. Governor of New JerseyApril 15 – Thomas F. Wilson, actor, writer, musician, painter, voice-over artist, stand-up comedian and podcasterApril 18 – Susan Faludi, feministMay 5 – Brian Williams, television journalistMay 8 – Ronnie Lott, American football player and sportscasterMay 12May 17 – Jim Nantz, sportscasterJune 3June 6 – Paul Germain, television screenwriter and producerJune 7 – Mike Pence, 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017 & 48th vice president of the United Statesfrom 2017 to 2021June 8 – C.T. Fletcher, powerlifter and bodybuilderJuly 1 – Dale Midkiff, actorJuly 5 – Marc Cohn, singer-songwriterJuly 6 – Glenn Kessler, journalistJuly 7 – Ben Linder, engineer (d. 1987)August 4 – Robbin Crosby, rock guitarist (Ratt) (died 2002)August 10 – Rosanna Arquette, actressAugust 13 – Danny Bonaduce, actorAugust 14September 1September 10 – Michael Earl, American puppeteer (died 2015)September 11 – Robert Wrenn, golfer and sportscasterSeptember 12 – Scott Brown, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 2010 to 2013October 1 – Brian P. Cleary, humorist, author and poetOctober 3October 5October 7 – Clayton Weishuhn, football player (died 2022)Jan 3, 2010 · Journalist Fred Kaplan thinks 1959 is exactly that kind of landmark year. "There was this growing sense that things were changing," he said. "The new is good. The new is something worth embracing ...
The history of artificial intelligence (AI) began in antiquity, with myths, stories and rumors of artificial beings endowed with intelligence or consciousness by master craftsmen. The study of logic and formal reasoning from antiquity to the present led directly to the invention of the programmable digital computer in the 1940s, a machine based ...
Journalist Fred Kaplan thinks 1959 is exactly that kind of landmark year. Kaplan's argument ranges far and wide. From science and technology come the birth of the microchip, without which "We ...
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Jul 24, 2012 · 6. 1954 - The Dalai Lama participates in talks with Mao Zedong in Beijing, but China does not honor the Seventeen Point Agreement. 7. 1959 - Tibetans revolt against the Chinese in Lhasa, but the uprising is suppressed. 8. The Dalai Lama and tens of thousands of Tibetans flee to India.
