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September 13–14, 1959: Luna 2, from USSR becomes first man-made object to land on the Moon
September 17, 1959: X-15 makes first powered flight
September 18, 1959: The "jetway", first jet bridge, opens at Atlanta airport

The following events occurred in September 1959:

September 1, 1959 (Tuesday)

  • Police in (Kolkata) fired into a crowd of rioters gathered at the University of Calcutta in the second day of violence arising from food shortages. At least seven persons were killed and 30 others injured. Meanwhile, in Delhi, India's Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon and the chiefs of India's Army, Navy and Air Force all resigned.[1] After the Indian Army restored order, 27 rioters were dead.[2]
  • Liquor could legally be sold in Oklahoma for the first time since its admission as a state.[3]
  • Born: Kenny Mayne, American sportscaster on ESPN, in Kent, Washington

Also,the infamous golf balls rain event happened on this day.

September 2, 1959 (Wednesday)

  • The U.S. House of Representatives voted 274–138 in favor of overriding President Eisenhower's veto of a $1.2 billion appropriation bill, but fell one vote short.[4]
  • At a conference in Edmonton, Dr. Linus Pauling said that 290,000 people then living would eventually die of cancer due to fallout from atomic blasts since 1945, and that another 30,000 to 60,000 would die for every nuclear bomb exploded in the future.[5]
  • Born: Guy Laliberté, Canadian founder of Cirque du Soleil, in Quebec City

September 3, 1959 (Thursday)

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September 4, 1959 (Friday)

  • The American National Exhibition at Moscow's Sokolniki Park closed after six weeks, having been open since July 25. Earlier in the summer, the Soviet Exhibition of Science, Technology and Culture had been displayed in New York. The display of American life has been described as "probably the most productive single psychological effort ever launched by the U.S. in any Communist country." [7]
  • Born: Kevin Harrington, Australian TV actor (Neighbours), in Melbourne

September 5, 1959 (Saturday)

September 6, 1959 (Sunday)

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Fibber McGee & Molly
  • The radio show Fibber McGee & Molly was broadcast for the last time. Starring Jim and Marian Jordan, the show debuted on April 16, 1935, and was one of the NBC network's top programs during the 1940s, each Tuesday evening at 9:30.[10] An NBC television version, with Bob Sweeney and Cathy Lewis in the title role, debuted on September 15 and ran for only 12 episodes.
  • The first jet airliner landed in Honolulu, a Pan American 707. With the advent of jet travel, a trip to Hawaii was less than five hours from the mainland, turning the islands into a prime tourist destination.[11] The same plane landed in Tokyo at 8 pm, cutting flight time between the United States and Japan from 29 hours to 17 hours.[12]
  • Died: Kay Kendall, 33, British actress, winner of Golden Globe in 1957 for Les Girls and wife of Rex Harrison (leukemia); Andrew Jackson May, 84, Congressman from Kentucky (1931–47), later imprisoned 1949–50 for conspiracy to defraud but pardoned 1952 (b. 1875)

September 7, 1959 (Monday)

  • Died: Maurice Duplessis, who had governed the Province of Quebec as its Premier since 1944, died four days after suffering a stroke while visiting Schefferville.[13] One observer opined later that it was "the event that enabled Quebec to open up to the modern world", adding that "He had been a dictatorial leader, treating members of his cabinet as ciphers, and making all the decisions himself." [14]

September 8, 1959 (Tuesday)

  • A bill to protect American mustangs was signed into law by President Eisenhower, making it a violation of federal law to use aircraft or motorized vehicles on public land in hunting wild horses and burros. Velma Bronn Johnston of Wadsworth, Nevada, nicknamed "Wild Horse Annie", had lobbied Congress to pass the bill.[15]
  • Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced that new elections for the 630 seats in the House of Commons would take place on October 8, with Parliament to be dissolved on September 18.[16]
  • Born: Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer, in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, U.S.S.R.

September 9, 1959 (Wednesday)

  • The final tests of the Atlas-D, the first ICBM, were conducted "in separate launches from opposite sides of the United States". At Cape Canaveral in Florida, Atlas missile number 10-D carried an unmanned Mercury capsule into space, and proved that the heat shield could protect humans from the heat from reentry. Missile number 12-D was launched successfully from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.[17]
  • Born: Eric Serra, French composer of film scores (GoldenEye)
  • Died: Collie Smith (O'Neill Gordon Smith), 26, Jamaican cricket star, in an auto accident

September 10, 1959 (Thursday)

  • After 145 vetoes that stood, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was overridden by Congress for the first time as both houses got the necessary two-thirds majority. The President had vetoed a $1,185,309,093 public works bill. The vote in the House was 280–121, followed by a 72–23 vote in the Senate.[18]
  • At Mountain Lake Park, Maryland, seven children were killed when their school bus stalled on a railroad crossing and was struck by a freight train. The bus, with 26 on board, was on its way to Denett Road Elementary School in Oakland when the accident happened at 8:30 a.m.[19]

September 11, 1959 (Friday)

Lee Oswald USMC

September 12, 1959 (Saturday)

  • Bonanza appeared for the first time on American television, premiering at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time on NBC. The Western, first to be broadcast in color, ran for 14 seasons and 440 episodes until January 16, 1973.[23]

September 13, 1959 (Sunday)

  • As astronomers in Europe watched, a man-made object landed on the Moon for the first time in the history of the Earth. The Soviet satellite Lunik 2 crashed near the Sea of Tranquility at 2202 GMT (5:02 pm in New York, and 12:02 a.m. Monday Moscow time).[24] Astronomers on Earth were able to watch the results of the impact, which spread dust and debris over an area of 40 square kilometers over five minutes, in a radius of 3.5 km.[25] The 800 pound metal sphere bore five-sided pieces stamped with the hammer and sickle.
  • Born: Jean Smart, American TV actress (Designing Women, Samantha Who?), in Seattle

September 14, 1959 (Monday)

  • The Soviet Union announced the success of Lunik 2 on Moscow Radio with the words "Today, the 14th of September, at 00:02:24 Moscow time, the second Soviet cosmic rocket reached the surface of the moon. It is the first time in history that a cosmic flight has been made from the earth to another celestial body." [26] Speaking at a news conference for the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Leonid Sedov emphsasized that the USSR had "no territorial claims whatsoever" on the Moon.[27]
  • For the first time, a radar signal was sent and the echo received from the planet Venus.[28]
  • The Landrum-Griffin Act was signed into law by President Eisenhower, after having passed the Senate 95–2 and the House 353–52[29]
  • Born: Morten Harket, Norwegian lead singer for a-ha, in Kongsberg*Born: Joseph R. Martinez jr. of Easton Pa.

September 15, 1959 (Tuesday)

  • Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev arrived for an 11-day visit in the United States, landing at Andrews Air Force Base at 11:30 a.m.[30]
  • Poe Elementary School attack: At Houston's Edgar Allan Poe Elementary School, a man set off a suitcase bomb at a playground, killing himself, a teacher, a custodian, and three children, including his son. Nineteen other children and the principal were hospitalized. Paul Harold Orgeron had brought in his seven-year-old son minutes earlier to enroll him in the second grade.[31]
  • Television was introduced in India, with a station going on the air in Delhi as a project of UNESCO. Initially, programming was limited to 60 minutes on Tuesdays and Fridays, with 40 minutes of education and 20 of entertainment, to be seen at community viewing centers (Tele Clubs) and schools.[32]
  • At the Mayan site of Chichen Itza in Mexico, a local tour guide, José Humberto Gómez, discovered a false wall that concealed a network of caves that became an archaeological treasure trove of the Mayan civilization.[33]

September 16, 1959 (Wednesday)

  • At 8:00 p.m. Paris time, President Charles de Gaulle went on television and radio in France and in its colony of Algeria. After five years of war, five billion dollars and more than 21,000 Frenchmen dead, the President said, "I deem it necessary that recourse to self-determination be here and now proclaimed." The options offered, to take place within four years after the end of fighting, would be "secession" (independence), francisation, with the Algerians becoming part of the French people, or "government of Algerians by Algerians, backed up by French help".[34]
  • The first successful plain paper copying machine, the Xerox 914, was introduced at a show at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel in New York.[35]
  • A federal court in Pennsylvania struck down as unconstitutional a 1928 law that required the reading of ten Bible verses each day in state schools in a case brought by Ellery Schempp.[36]

September 17, 1959 (Thursday)

  • The North American X-15 jet fighter made its first powered flight, with test pilot Scott Crossfield guiding it. A B-52 bomber carried the X-15 to 38,000 feet over Edwards AFB, and Crossfield then launched to 50,000 feet. The X-15 could reach a maximum altitude of 67 miles, sufficient to put it into space although not into orbit.[37]
  • The first navigation satellite, Transit 1A, was launched from Cape Canaveral, but failed to reach orbit when the third stage of a Thor-Able rocket failed. Transit 1B would be placed into orbit on April 13, 1960, and the launch of Transit 5A1 on December 19, 1962, was the first to become operational. Navigational satellites eventually paved the way for products based on GPS (global positioning system).[38]
  • A British proposal for worldwide disarmament was presented to the United Nations by Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. The three stage program called for an international control agency to oversee reduction of stockpiles of nuclear and other mass destruction weapons, and eventually reducing conventional weapons and manpower to levels required only for internal security. A Soviet proposal was presented by First Secretary Khrushchev the next day.[39]
  • In China, Chairman Mao Zedong issued a Special Pardon order for "the Manchukou war criminal Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi". Puyi had been the nominal Emperor of China during his childhood (1908–1912), and later had been installed by the Japanese as the puppet ruler for the state of Manchukuo. Pu Yi would be released on December 6, and lived until 1967.[40] On the same day, China formally announced that Defense Minister Peng Dehuai had been removed from office and replaced by Lin Biao.[41]

September 18, 1959 (Friday)

  • The jetway, the extending bridge that permits airline passengers to board directly from the terminal to the airplane door, was used by airline passengers for the first time. Installed on July 22 at the Atlanta airport by Delta Air Lines, the new device was inaugurated with the first commercial use of the Douglas DC-8, a competitor to the Boeing 707 began commercial air service. Both Delta United flew inaugural flights on the same day.[42]
  • Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev spoke at the United Nations in New York to outline a proposed four year disarmament plan. The Soviet presentation was more drastic than the British of the day before, calling for initial reduction of the armed forces of the USSR, US and China to 1.7 million members, followed by liquidation of all foreign military bases, and eventually destruction of all nuclear, chemical and bacteriological weapons and rockets.[43]
  • Serial killer Harvey Glatman, who posed as a photographer and lured his victims through classified ads, was executed in California's gas chamber.[44]
  • Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis) admitted its first black students. The "Memphis State 8" began classes without incident, but were restricted from "white" areas of the campus.[45]
  • Born: Willy Parsons, American Stand-Up Comedian and Actor, in San Diego, California; and Sérgio Britto, Brazilian singer and keyboardist, in Rio de Janeiro

September 19, 1959 (Saturday)

  • The most memorable portion of Nikita Khrushchev's 11-day tour of the United States was his stop in Los Angeles. The Soviet leader was outraged by a speech made by L.A. Mayor Norris Poulson at a banquet, offended by a performance of can-can dancers, and annoyed that he would not be allowed to visit Disneyland. Khrushchev complained at a Hollywood reception, "I asked 'Why not? What do you have there-- rocket launch pads?'" After Poulson's speech, Khrushchev responded, "I can just go, and one never knows whether another head of a Soviet government will ever visit this country."[46] Days later, Khrushchev calmed down, blaming the Disneyland cancellation on legitimate security concerns, and saying of Poulson, "Perhaps he got out of the wrong side of the bed." [47]

September 20, 1959 (Sunday)

  • General Nadhim Tabaqchali and 18 other Iraqi officers were executed by a firing squad for their role in the March 1959 Mosul Uprising.[48]

September 21, 1959 (Monday)

  • The Ford Falcon was introduced in a closed-circuit TV press conference. The automobile was produced until January 1, 1970.[49] On the same day, the first Plymouth Valiant came off of the assembly line at the Chrysler plant in Hamtramck, Michigan.[50]
  • Public Law 86-341 was enacted under the title "An act to extend Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, and for other purposes". The "other purposes", in the amendment to a law regarding the export of surplus farm goods, included a law authorizing the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to operate a food stamp program.[51] The first use of Food Stamps came on May 29, 1961.
  • Born: Dave Coulier, American comedian; "Joey Gladstone" in TV's Full House, in Detroit; and Stan Van Gundy, NBA coach (Orlando Magic), in Indio, California
  • Died: Abraham Flexner, 92, American educator and reformer (b. 1866)

September 22, 1959 (Tuesday)

  • The USS Patrick Henry, the second American ballistic missile submarine, was launched in Groton, Connecticut. The wife of Illinois congressman Leslie C. Arends smashed the bottle of champagne on the prow of the Polaris submarine in a ceremony before 20,000 people.[52] The first ballistic sub, the USS George Washington (SSBN-598), had been launched on June 9.
  • The Chicago White Sox won the American League pennant for the first time in 40 years with a 4–2 victory over the second place Cleveland Indians.[53] Air raid sirens were sounded at 10:30 on authorization by Chicago Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn. At least one-third of Chicagoans surveyed later said that they thought that the sirens were a warning of an impending attack.[54]
  • The Havana Sugar Kings beat the Richmond Virginians to win the championship of baseball's AAA International League before 13,021 fans, including Cuban leader Fidel Castro.[55] The Havana team was moved to Jersey City, New Jersey, at the end of the season.

September 23, 1959 (Wednesday)

  • Walter F. Munford, the President of United States Steel, was fatally injured while putting away kitchen utensils at his summer home in Chatham, Massachusetts. Munford, exhausted from the ongoing steelworkers strike, slipped on the waxed kitchen floor and a paring knife in his hand cut 3 inches deep into his abdomen. Complications from the wound contributed to his death five days later.[56]
  • After visits to Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited Coon Rapids, Iowa and had dinner at the farm of Roswell "Bob" Garst.[57]

September 24, 1959 (Thursday)

  • In the race to be the first to photograph the far side of the Moon, the United States suffered a setback when the Atlas-Able rocket exploded on the launch pad during tests. The rocket was being readied for an October 3 launch, when the Moon would be within 219,000 miles of the Earth, and would have carried a satellite into lunar orbit, and the explosion pushed the launch back to November.[58] The Soviet probe Lunik 3 was launched on October 4 and photographed the far side two days later.
  • 1959 TAI Douglas DC-7 accident: A Douglas DC-7C airliner, operated by Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux (TAI), crashed into a forest in France, shortly after taking off from Bordeaux toward the West African city of Mali. All nine of the crew, and 45 of the 56 passengers, were killed.[59]

September 25, 1959 (Friday)

S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, 1899-1959

September 26, 1959 (Saturday)

  • The "Isewan Typhoon" also known as Typhoon Vera struck Nagoya, bringing a 17 foot high wave and 160 mph winds, and then moved across Japan. The strongest storm ever recorded in Japan killed more than 5,000 people, injuring over 32,000 and leaving 1.5 million people homeless.[61]
  • Unable to persuade businesses to spend thousands of dollars to buy its copy machines, the Haloid Xerox Company introduced a leasing program that would become a model followed by other businesses. The $95 per month lease could be cancelled on 15 days notice, and included repairs and 2,000 copies each month, 4¢ per copy afterward. Created by the consulting firm of Arthur D. Little and Associates, the program increased Xerox annual revenues from $30 million to $2.5 billion by 1972.[62]

September 27, 1959 (Sunday)

September 27, 1959: Soviet Premier Khrushchev hosted by American President Eisenhower during U.S visit

September 28, 1959 (Monday)

  • The Quick Draw McGraw Show was first broadcast, as a cartoon syndicated by Hanna-Barbera, and introduced several well-known characters, along with the "guitar smash" sound effect. The three segments spoofed Westerns (Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey), detective shows (Super Snooper and Blabbermouse), and family shows (Augie Doggie and Doggy Daddy).[65]
  • Rochester College (formerly North Central Christian College and Michigan Christian Junior College) began its first classes. The private 4-year college is located in Rochester Hills, Michigan.[66]
  • Died: Rudolf Caracciola, 58 German race car driver and Grand Prix champion

September 29, 1959 (Tuesday)

  • The Brunei Constitution and Agreement of 1959 gave the British colony of Brunei its first written Constitution and protectorate status. Great Britain was given complete control of the external affairs of the South Pacific nation, while the Sultan, Omar Ali Saifuddin III, presided over an Executive Council. Brunei became fully independent in 1984.[67]
  • Braniff Flight 542 from Houston to Washington broke apart at 11:07 p.m. CST while at an altitude of 15,000 feet, killing all 33 people on board. The Lockheed L-188 Electra had lost a wing from structural failure.[68] Another Electra, Northwest Flight 710, would lose a wing and crash on March 17, 1960.[69]
  • The Dodgers beat the Braves 6–5 to win a playoff for the National League pennant, and advanced to the World Series.
  • Born: Benjamin Sehene, Rwandan author

September 30, 1959 (Wednesday)

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  2. "One of Those Weeks", TIME, September 14, 1959
  3. Arrell Morgan Gibson, Oklahoma: A History of Five Centuries (University of Oklahoma Press, 1981), p247
  4. "Ike Veto Upheld by One Vote", Oakland Tribune, September 2, 1959; Victory for Veto, TIME, September 14, 1959, p1
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  49. Falcon history
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