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