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* 1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
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The Dreadnought was built on designs supplied by the United States in 1959 and was launched last year.
* 1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States ' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the " Mercury Seven ".
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The official currency of the British Virgin Islands has been the US dollar since 1959, a currency also used by the United States Virgin Islands.
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* 1959 – Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
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* 1959 – Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units ( e. g. inch, mile and ounce ) are adopted after agreement between the U. S. A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
* 1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U. S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania almost ten and a half months later ( see Flag Act ).
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* 1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
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* 2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
On October 7, 2008, his 1959 album Kind of Blue received its fourth platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ), for shipments of at least four million copies in the United States.
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