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Month February 1959 Calendar

About Month of February Calendar

  • February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the shortest month and the only month with fewer than 30 days. The month has 28 days in common years or 29 days in leap years.

    February symbols: Its birth flower is the violet (Viola) and the common primrose (Primula vulgaris). Its birthstone is the amethyst. It symbolizes piety, humility, spiritual wisdom, and sincerity. Its Zodiac signs are Aquarius (until February 18) and Pisces (February 19 onwards).

Historical Events for February, 1959

  • Day of Week 2nd » Dyatlov Pass incident
  • Day of Week 3rd » Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper or J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, in a The Day the Music Died called plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
  • Day of Week 6th » Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
  • 6th » At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
  • Day of Week 9th » The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, Soviet Union or USSR.
  • Day of Week 11th » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
  • Day of Week 16th » Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
  • Day of Week 17th » Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
  • Day of Week 19th » The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
  • Day of Week 20th » The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic fighter aircraft or jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the John George Diefenbaker e.g Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
  • Day of Week 22nd » Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
  • Day of Week 28th » 'Discoverer 1', an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched. It failed to achieve orbit.

Famous Birthdays on February in 1959

  • 3rd » Thomas Calabro, American actor and director
  • 3rd » Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese DJ, producer, and songwriter (Pizzicato Five)
  • 3rd » Ferzan Özpetek, Turkish-Italian director and screenwriter
  • 3rd » Lol Tolhurst, English drummer (The Cure, Presence (band) named Presence, Easy Cure, and Levinhurst)
  • 3rd » Óscar Iván Zuluaga, Colombian economist and politician, 67th Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Colombia) called Colombian Minister of Finance
  • 4th » Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress
  • 4th » Christian Schreier, German footballer
  • 4th » Lawrence Taylor, American football player
  • 5th » Sudip Chatterjee, Indian footballer and manager (d. 2006)
  • 5th » Jennifer Granholm American politician, 47th Governor of Michigan
  • 5th » Armando Husillos, Argentinian footballer and manager
  • 5th » George McGeachie, Scottish footballer
  • 6th » Ken Nelson (British record producer) e.g Ken Nelson, English record producer
  • 7th » Mick McCarthy, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster
  • 8th » Damir Maričić, Croatian footballer
  • 9th » Antonis Manikas, Greek footballer and manager
  • 10th » John Calipari, American basketball player and coach
  • 10th » Dennis Gentry, American football player
  • 10th » Death of Lisa McPherson or Lisa McPherson, American Negligent homicide or homicide victim (d. 1995)
  • 11th » Bradley Cole, American actor
  • 11th » Deborah Meaden, English businesswoman
  • 11th » Roberto Moreno, Brazilian race car driver
  • 11th » Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi, Iranian educator and politician
  • 12th » Larry Nance, American basketball player
  • 12th » Dan Puric, Romanian actor and director
  • 12th » Sigrid Thornton, Australian actress
  • 13th » Gaston Gingras, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 13th » Gord Hampson, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 14th » Renée Fleming, American soprano
  • 15th » Ali Campbell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (UB40)
  • 15th » Guy de Alwis, Sri Lankan cricketer (d. 2013)
  • 15th » Brian Propp, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 15th » Martin Rowson, English author and illustrator
  • 15th » Hugo Savinovich, Ecuadorian wrestler
  • 16th » Daniel Ribacoff, American polygraph examiner
  • 16th » John McEnroe, American tennis
  • 16th » Kelly Tripucka, American basketball player
  • 17th » Aryeh Deri, Moroccan-Israeli rabbi and politician
  • 17th » Rowdy Gaines, American swimmer
  • 17th » Neil Lomax, American football player
  • 18th » Jayne Atkinson, English actresses
  • 18th » Bryan Brandenburg, French-American game designer and author
  • 18th » Ken Freedman, American radio host
  • 18th » Hallgrímur Helgason, Icelandic painter and author
  • 18th » Christian Koeberl, Austrian geologist and academic
  • 18th » James Metzger, American businessman and philanthropist
  • 19th » Simmu Tiik, Estonian diplomat
  • 20th » Scott Brayton, American race car driver (d. 1996)
  • 20th » Bill Gullickson, American baseball player
  • 21st » José María Cano, Spanish singer-songwriter and painter (Mecano)
  • 21st » Emmett McAuliffe, American lawyer and radio host
  • 22nd » Jiří Čunek, Czech politician
  • 22nd » Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
  • 23rd » Clayton Anderson, American engineer and astronaut
  • 23rd » Nick de Bois, English politician
  • 23rd » Richard Dodds, English field hockey player
  • 23rd » Ian Liddell-Grainger, Scottish soldier and politician
  • 23rd » Graeme Morrice, Scottish politician
  • 23rd » Linda Nolan, Irish singer and actress (The Nolans)
  • 23rd » Aris Pavlis, Greek musician
  • 24th » Beth Broderick, American actress
  • 25th » Aleksei Balabanov, Russian director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
  • 25th » Renee M. Borges, Indian ecologist
  • 25th » Carl Marotte, Canadian actor
  • 25th » Mike Peters (musician) e.g Mike Peters, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Alarm and Big Country)
  • 26th » Rolando Blackman, American basketball player
  • 26th » Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkish politician, 50th List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Turkey) named Minister of Foreign Affairs for Turkey
  • 26th » Krista Lane, German pornographic actress
  • 27th » Johnny Van Zant, American singer-songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Van Zant)
  • 27th » Vardan Petrosyan, Armenian-French actor and screenwriter
  • 28th » Megan McDonald, American author

Famous Deaths for February 1959

  • 1st » Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873)
  • 1st » Michael P. Anderson, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1959)
  • 7th » Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (b. 1874)
  • 7th » Daniel François Malan, South African politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1874)
  • 7th » Guitar Slim, American guitarist (b. 1926)
  • 8th » Daniel Soubeyran, French rower (b. 1875)
  • 11th » Marshall Teague, American race car driver (b. 1922)
  • 14th » Baby Dodds, American drummer (b. 1898)
  • 15th » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
  • 19th » Willard Miller, American sailor, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1877)
  • 26th » Selig Suskin, Russian-Israeli agronomist (b. 1873)
  • 28th » Maxwell Anderson, American journalist, author and playwright (b. 1888)

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