Also in 1959, Nicklaus won the North and South Amateur at Pinehurst, North Carolina and competed in three additional PGA Tour events, with his best finish being another 12th place showing at the Buick Open.

8th European Tour: Spring, 1959.

* Tippecanoe Open, a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1959 to 1961

Erik Seidel ( born November 6, 1959 ) is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada who has won eight World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title.

He won the Tour de France in 1959, and won the Tour's " King of the Mountains " classification six times ( 1954, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964 ).

Bahamontes was not initially considered a contender for in the 1959 Tour de France, but he benefited from an early escape on a stage in the Pyrenees, and then won a mountain time trial to the Puy-de-Dôme.

She returns them to the owner-by now a middle aged man-and he is reminded of his childhood, part of which involved watching Bahamontes ride to victory in the 1959 Tour de France.

Named for the 10-day Tour de France automobile race, not the famous bicycle race of the same name, a number of 250 GT " Tour de France " Berlinettas were sold for GT races from 1956 through 1959.

A one-off short wheelbase Tour de France was built for the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans.

He won the 1957, 1958 and 1959 Tour de France as well as the Paris 1000 sports car race in the latter two years.

Corey Allen Pavin ( born November 16, 1959 ) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour.

* Romeo and Juliet ( unnamed parts ) and Hamlet ( Lady ) on Tour, 12 December 1958 – 5 January 1959

* Grand Tour ( 1959 musical ), a 1959 musical with music by David Shire

Robinson showed his victory was no fluke by winning the 20th stage ( from Annecy to Chalon-sur-Saône ) of the 1959 Tour by 20 minutes.

Rosie Jones ( born November 13, 1959 ) is an American professional golfer, with 13 LPGA Tour career victories and nearly $ 8. 4 million in tournament earnings.

** Tour de France ( 1954, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964 )

After taking advice from Paul Runyan and adjusting his grip, he recovered in 1959 to have his best year with five PGA Tour victories.

Wall won fourteen titles on the PGA Tour, including four in 1959.

He won his first Tour de Suisse in 1959 after finishing second the previous year.

Better known as " Catato ", he was part of the Deportivo Saprissa team that went on a World Tour in 1959, becoming the first Latin American team to ever do such a trip.

The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with a score by Nelson Riddle.

She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a " locomotive of women's history " and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France.

But the study of these curves was first developed in 1959 by mathematician Paul de Casteljau using de Casteljau's algorithm, a numerically stable method to evaluate Bézier curves.

This range consist of Junior ( basic model ) made from 1959 to 1961, Junior de Luxe ( a little enhanced ) from 1961 to 1963, F11 ( a little larger ) and F12 ( larger and bigger engine ) from 1963 to 1965 and F12 Roadster from 1964 to1965.

* The Conseil de l ' Entente, 1959 between Côte d ' Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, and ( in 1966 ) Togo

Some of the first films of this new genre were Godard's Breathless ( À bout de souffle, 1960 ), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Rivette's Paris Belongs to Us ( Paris nous appartient, 1958-distributed in 1961 ), starring Jean-Claude Brialy and Truffaut's The 400 Blows ( Les Quatre Cent Coups, 1959 ) starring Jean-Pierre Léaud.

* Éamon de Valera ( 1926 – 1959 )

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Charles de Gaulle: The Crucial Years, 1943 – 1944 ( 1959 ) online edition

* 1959: Messieurs les ronds de cuir, directed by Henri Diamant-Berger

* 1959: Le Gendarme de Champignol, directed by Jean Bastia

She also played the lead role in the first production in English of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, at the ANTA Playhouse in New York in 1951, and a BBC production of Lorca's Blood wedding ( Bodas de sangre ), broadcast on June 2, 1959.

Sketches of Spain ( 1959 – 1960 ) featured songs by contemporary Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo and also Manuel de Falla, as well as Gil Evans originals with a Spanish flavor.

* 1959 – General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a " Europe, " from the Atlantic to the Urals.

Early Dutch television series were Morgen gebeurt het ( tomorrow it will happen ), broadcast from 1957 to 1959, about a group of Dutch space explorers and their adventures, De duivelsgrot ( the devil's cave ), broadcast from 1963 to 1964, about a scientist who finds the map of a cave that leads to the center of the earth and Treinreis naar de Toekomst ( train journey to the future ) about two young children who are taken to the future by robots who try to recreate humanity, but are unable to give the cloned humans a soul.

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* July 1 – Mario de Bernardi, Italian aviator ( d. 1959 )

* Méthodes de la science politique ( 1959 )

He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Information ( 1945 – 1946 ) and subsequently as France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs during de Gaulle's presidency ( 1959 – 1969 ).

Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen ( 10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959 ) was an English boxer and World War I veteran who became a successful film actor.

* Raymond Foxall ( 1959 ) Song for a Prince: The Story of Llywelyn the Great covers the period from King John's invasion in 1211 to the execution of William de Braose.

William S. Burroughs wrote about the candiru in his 1959 novel Naked Lunch, describing it as " a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your asshole or a woman's cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru's life-cycle in situ.

* Campeonato Español de Turismos ( Spanish Touring Car Championship ) ran from 1959 to 1998.