A Turkish Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes near Gatwick Airport, killing 14; Turkish prime minister Adnan Menderes survives the crash. Date: February 17, 1959 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 17 📅 Events on this day in 1959 📅 On This Day (Today)
Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution. Date: February 17, 1959 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 17 📅 Events on this day in 1959 📅 On This Day (Today)
Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1. Date: February 16, 1959 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 16 📅 Events on this day in 1959 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom. Date: February 11, 1959 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 11 📅 Events on this day in 1959 📅 On This Day (Today)
The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR. Date: February 9, 1959 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 9 📅 Events on this day in 1959 📅 On This Day (Today)
At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished. Date: February 6, 1959 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 6 📅 Events on this day in 1959 📅 On This Day (Today)
Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit. Date: February 6, 1959 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 6 📅 Events on this day in 1959 📅 On This Day (Today)
Sixty-five people are killed when American Airlines Flight 320 crashes into the East River on approach to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Date: February 3, 1959 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 3 📅 Events on this day in 1959 📅 On This Day (Today)
Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash along with the pilot near Clear Lake, Iowa, an event later known as The Day the Music Died. Date: February 3, 1959 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 3 📅…
Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances. Date: February 2, 1959 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 2 📅 Events on this day in 1959 📅 On This Day (Today)