1 January: Plant Cultivars named after this date must be named in a modern language, not Latin.
2 January: The Commune of France successfully launches the
Lune 1 from it's Space port in Algeria.
3 January: India grants the Maldives independence. The country still remains in the Co-Prosperity Sphere.
10 January: Aichi finally unveils the
A10M Fighter Jet. A supersonic jet built in cooperation with Mikoyan Gurevich of East Russia. The East Russian Government immediately orders hundreds of the planes, replacing the Mig 17 as the mainline fighter jet of East Russia.
13 January: The Bay of Pigs invasion, an armed invasion of Cuba led by Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and Raul Castro landed in the bay of pigs, Cuba. After making some territorial gains, a stalemate and eventual pushback by the Cuban forces led to the invasion's defeat.
25 January: The Mitsubishi
Skyjet 100 officially begins service.
30 January: The MS
Hans Hedtoft, returning to Copenhagen after leaving port in Dublin, strikes an iceberg in the North Sea and sank, all hands are lost.
1 February: Female Suffrage was enacted in Switzerland after a referendum.
6 February: At Guadalcanal island. A successful test of The Flying Fish ballistic missile was conducted.
13 February: Oceanic Telephone Cables connecting Japan to Korea and China is officially in operation after the project's initial construction in 1956.
17 February: Japan successfully launched the Raijin 1. A weather observation satellite meant to monitor cloud cover for the IJN.
18 February: Women in Nepal vote for the first time.
1 March: "
Ue o Muite Aruko" airs all over Japan, it reaches No.1 in billboards all across Japan and Asia.
10 March: Tibetan protests erupt all over Lhasa. With the populace demanding a parliament to be made and women be granted the ability to vote.
17 March: The Dalai Lama accepts the demands of the protesters, and a parliament, emulating the style of Japan's House of Commons was formed. Elections will be held next year and Tibetan women would be granted the ability to vote in next year's elections.
6 April: The International Prosperity Bank releases it's worldwide GDP estimates of every country. France ranks in No.1, with 556 Billion Dollars, and Japan ranks No.2, with 543 Billion Dollars. Britain was No.3 and the Socialist Republic of Italy was No.4, finally, the American Union State, with only 113 Billion Dollars, was ranked No.5
10 April: Crown Prince Akihito of Japan marries Shoda Michiko, the first commoner to marry into the Imperial House of Japan.
2 May:
1959 FA Cup Final, Nottingham Forest defeats Luton Town 2-1 in Wembley Stadium
4 May: John Coltrane begins recording for his Jazz Album, Giant Steps.
8 May: Adi Putro begins modifications of various Japanese cars entering the Insulindian market, garnering a reputation for the designer company's reliability and build quality.
10 May: English Novelist and Academic C. P. Snow delivers an influential lecture on The
Two Cultures, concerning the communications breakdown between the Sciences and Humanities, in Nottingham, Union of Britain.
24 May: What used to be called the British Empire day is renamed into Solidarity day.
28 May: A rocket launch from Tanegashima island brings a cargo of a Monkey and a Cat. The successful landing of the space probe at the Sea of Japan marks the first time Japan manages a successful recovery of animals from Space.
3 June: Real Madrid wins the 1959 European Cup.
10 June: Sudan War, border conflicts in the Sudan-Toubou border escalated to such a point that Syndicalist African nations would cross the Sudanese border, formally making this the second major conflict since the end of the Second Weltkrieg.
23 June:
Sean Lemass becomes the third
Taoiseach of Ireland.
25 June: The American Union State forms NASA, marking America's entry into the Space Race.
26 June: Tetsu Katayama releases his report concerning the Police Brutality incident in Taiwan. The reports allegations that the
Tokko, in coordination with the local police force, were mainly responsible for the incident sent shockwaves in the Japanese political world. His solutions of abolishing the Tokko and bringing in more native Taiwanese and European police officers were just as controversial.
29 June: Sentiment for German reunification starts to visibly grow after an incident in the French-Rhennish border involving a French police officer and a Rhennish police officer. Several Rhennish, Bavarian, and Prussian politicians began expressing openly that their respective countries should be unified.
1 July: Mr Squiggle, Australia's longest running TV Series, airs it's first episode on ABC.
6 July: Japan begins amassing a task force for deployment to Sudan. Some 200.000 troops in total were assembled.
7 July: at 14:28 UTC, the Planet Venus
occults the star Regulus, the next such event will happen on 1 October, 2044. The event was used to determine the diameter of Venus and Venus' atmospheric structure.
9 July: Wing Commander Michael Beetham, flying a British Air Force Vickers Valiant sets a record of 11 hours and 27 minutes, flying from London to Buenos Aires.
15 July: A strike occurs against the Japanese steel industry
22 July: A Kumamoto University research group studying Minamata Disease concludes that it is caused by Mercury Poisoning.
29 July: The first Japanese troops land in Port Sudan, escalating the Sudan war between the CPS and the Syndicalist International.
30 July: The SR.N1 Hovercraft crosses the English channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
6 August: The Japanese
Surveyor 6 Satellite was launched into Earth Orbit.
7 August: The
Roseburg Blast kills 14 people and costed 12 Million Dollars in damages
8 August: A flood in Taiwan kills 2.000, the local government declares a state of emergency and asks the local Japanese military garrison for help.
10 August: The battle of Rabak, Sudanese troops held their positions in the city of Rabak against Syndicalist aerial bombardment and ground assault. Japanese troops are busy constructing pontoon bridges while other African CPS countries rush into the city to bolster the Sudanese defense.
16 August: Cyprus gains independence from Egypt, raising the possibility of a Cypriot-Cretan confederation forming.
26 August: The original
Mini was launched.
27 August: The battle of Rabak, Japanese troops managed to successfully construct pontoon bridges and are attempting to flank African Syndicalist forces. A formal retreat order by African Syndietern forces went into effect.
31 August:
Beijing National Stadium is officially opened.
1 September: The battle of Rabak, the last enemy troops have either been killed, captured, or fled from the city. Marking the battle as a CPS victory.
6 September: Operation Kamikaze, capitalizing on the recent arrival of other CPS forces and the bigger Japanese presence in the area. Japanese commanders launched a wide front offensive, results were much better than expected as African Syndicalist forces were caught off guard and the initiative of the Japanese ensured no adequate defense could be formed.
16 September: The
Brother Model 59 was unveiled, it is the first ever plain paper copier made available to the public. It became a smashing hit.
17 September: The first ever
Hypersonic Aircraft conducts flight tests off the coast of the Solomon Islands, Japan.
26 September: Typhoon Vera hits central Honshu, Japan. It killed an estimated 5.098, injuring 38.921, and leaving 1.553.000 people homeless, most of the victims are targeted at the Nagoya area.
2 October: The Twilight Zone formally airs on CBS.
13 October: Japan launches the
Surveyor 7 Satellite into orbit.
16 October: The Boston Patriots, later renamed
New England Patriots, was formed.
21 October: The
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.
2 November: The
M1 Motorway, stretching from Watford to Crick, was opened for public service, British Premier Clement Attlee attended the inauguration.
16 November: The
Sound of Music, a musical written by Rodgers and Hammenstein, premiers on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontaine theatre.
20 November: The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.
3 December: Operation Kamikaze officially ends, with Japanese and CPS troops managing to force Syndietern forces back into the former Sudanese-Toubou border.
5 December: The
Malpasset Dam in Southern France collapses, and the water flows over the town of Fréjus, killing 412.
14 December: Makarios III was elected as the first President of Cyprus. He promises that he will attempt to reunite Crete and Cyprus together.
28 December:
Ana Torroja Fungairino, famous Spanish singer, was born.