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October 15, 1959 (Thursday) KGB agent Bogdan Stashinsky murdered Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera in Munich, West Germany. The weapon was a gun that fired hydrogen cyanide gas into Bandera's face. Stashinsky, who had killed newspaperman Lev Rebet in the same manner in 1957, swallowed an antidote and escaped.
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 1) List of episodes. " Where Is Everybody? " is the first episode of the American anthology television series The Twilight Zone and was originally broadcast on 2 October 1959, on CBS. It is one of the most realistic Twilight Zone episodes, as it features no supernatural elements and is based on fairly ...
1959 ( MCMLIX) 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.
Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:42 PM. 'This Day in History': 10/21/1959 - The Guggenheim Opens. 56 years ago today on Oct. 21, 1959, the Guggenheim Museum sparked the curiosity of millions when its ...
Solar eclipse of October 2, 1959. / 20.4; -1.4. A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Friday, October 2, 1959, [1] with a magnitude of 1.0325. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.
October 8 — The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2, to win their 2nd World Series Title in baseball. October 13 — Launch of Explorer 7 satellite. October 21 — The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of modern art (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who died April 9) opens to the public in New York City.
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).
Explorer 6. 1959 September 14. USSR. First hard landing on another celestial body (the Moon ) Luna 2. 1959 October 7. USSR. First three-axis stabilised spacecraft. First photos of far side of the Moon, covering 70% of the surface invisible from Earth.