Poll for 1959 the year my aunt Sue was born….
- Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. – 3 votes
- Fidel Castro takes over Cuba – 2 votes
- The chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper goes down in an Iowa snowstorm, killing all four occupants on board – 4 votes
- Women in Nepal vote for the first time – 0 votes
- Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500. – 0 votes
- The Barbie doll debuts. – 5 votes
- Dalai Lama leaves Tibet – 1 vote
- First Americans killed in action in Vietnam – 1 vote
- NASA announces its selection of seven military pilots to become the first US astronauts – 2 votes
- The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
- Flood in Taiwan leaves 2,000 dead.
- Hawaii is admitted as the 50th U.S. state. – 3 votes
- The Twilight Zone premieres – 1 vote
- Pantyhose is invented.
- The first known human with HIV dies in Congo.- 1 vote