1959
This page lists news articles and events for the year 1959.
Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.
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Undated
- Event: A college student named Leonard Lipton at Cornell University writes a poem which becomes the basis of the song "Puff the Magic Dragon"
January
February
- February 2:
- Event: Dyatlov Pass incident
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September
- Labor Day:
- Event: The House on the Rock opens to the public
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