This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too.

In 1959 President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev held an informal session in the U. S..

* 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.

* 1959 – Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus.

It subsequently moved to Cairo and was dissolved in 1959, by decree of Egyptian President, Gamal Abdul Nasser.

* 1959 — Lee A. DuBridge ( President, Caltech )

* 1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a " Kitchen Debate ".

The election of his daughter Indira as Congress President in 1959 aroused criticism for alleged nepotism, although actually Nehru had disapproved of her election, partly because he considered it smacked of " dynastism "; he said, indeed it was " wholly undemocratic and an undesirable thing ", and refused her a position in his cabinet.

For a couple of weeks in 1959, Adenauer considered leaving the chancellorship and becoming Federal President.

* Briefly considered running for the office of Federal President in 1959.

* Mikael Dolsten M. D., Ph. D. ( 1959 -), President of Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, Adjunct Professor of Immunology at the Medical Faculty in Lund

* 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.

* 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.

* 1959 – Barthélemy Boganda, African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic ( b. 1910 )

* 1877 – Enrico De Nicola, 1st President of the Italian Republic ( d. 1959 )

* 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.

* 1958 – President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.

Heinlein decisively ended his juvenile novels with Starship Troopers ( 1959 ), a controversial work and his personal riposte to leftists calling for President Dwight D. Eisenhower to stop nuclear testing in 1958.

Rolf Nevanlinna served as President of the International Mathematical Union, IMU, in 1959 – 63 and as President of the International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM, in 1962.

During the period of 1947 till 1959, seven Prime ministers, four Governors-General and one President were forcefully removed either by the constitutional.

He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), President of the Palestinian National Authority ( PNA ), and leader of the Fatah political party and former paramilitary group, which he founded in 1959.

* President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado ( Cuba )-from 1959

* March 9 – Jose P. Laurel, Philippine President ( d. 1959 )

An extensive system of canals and locks, known as the Saint Lawrence Seaway, was officially opened on 26 June 1959 by Queen Elizabeth II ( representing Canada ) and President Dwight D. Eisenhower ( representing the United States ).

A few of the many Carolina League players who have gone on to star in the Major Leagues are: Johnny Bench ( Peninsula, 1966 ), Wade Boggs ( Winston-Salem, 1977 ), Barry Bonds ( Prince William, 1985 ), Rod Carew ( Wilson, 1966 ), Dock Ellis ( Kinston, 1965 ), Dwight Evans ( Winston-Salem, 1971 ), Dwight Gooden ( Lynchburg, 1983 ), Andruw Jones ( Durham, 1996 ), Chipper Jones ( Durham, 1992 ), Willie McCovey ( Danville, 1956 ), Joe Morgan ( Durham, 1963 ), Dave Parker ( Salem, 1972 ), Tony Pérez ( Rocky Mount, 1962 ), Andy Pettitte ( Prince William, 1993 ), Jorge Posada ( Prince William, 1993 ), Darryl Strawberry ( Lynchburg, 1981 ), Bernie Williams ( Prince William, 1988 ), and Carl Yastrzemski ( Raleigh, 1959 ).

John Foster Dulles ( February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959 ) served as U. S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959.

* The Presidential Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower Official letter to President Stroessner ( 1959 )

U. S. President Dwight Eisenhower landed at the airport in 1959 where he was greeted by King Zahir Shah and Prime Minister Daoud Khan among many other Afghan officials.

* May 14, 1959: Ground-breaking ceremony with U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Following the passage of this law, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed May 1, 1959 the first official observance of Loyalty Day.

Daimlercade Dwight D. Eisenhower | President Eisenhower Kabul Afghanistan 9 December 1959

Spain's gradual readmission to the international fold was given visible form with the visit of U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in December 1959.

Frondizi and Dwight D. Eisenhower in Bariloche ( 1959 )

U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower visited Argentina in March 1959, the first such visit since 1936, and the resulting Bariloche Declaration promoted the mutual protection of natural parks.

In 1959, Premier Khrushchev met with US President Dwight Eisenhower ( 1953 – 61 ) to decrease Soviet – American tensions and with the Western world in the Cold War.

President Dwight Eisenhower opened the case in 1959 in order to investigate opening the market up to further competition, but he closed the case shortly before leaving office.

As a delegate, Burns played a key role in lobbying for Hawaii statehood, a goal that was achieved on March 12, 1959, when the statehood bill was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Stewart to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Harold Hitz Burton, who was retiring.

Negotiations with the British Government began as early as March 1959 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower mentioned the need to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at a meeting at Camp David.

Distinguished alumni include Dwight D. Opperman, former CEO of West Publishing Company, after whom Drake's law library was named ; Neal Smith, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1959 until 1995.

Dwight Marvin, editor of the Troy Record, was one of several community leaders who pressed to create a broader mission for the college, which in 1959 would be officially known as Hudson Valley Community College.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State John Foster Dulles ( 1953 – 1959 ) is considered to be the primary force behind the creation of SEATO, which expanded the concept of anti-communist collective defense to Southeast Asia, and then-Vice President Richard Nixon advocated an Asian equivalent of NATO upon returning from his late-1953 Asia trip.

The Khrushchev Thaw was highlighted by Khrushchev's 1954 visit to Beijing, People's Republic of China, his 1955 visit to Belgrade, Yugoslavia and his subsequent meeting with Dwight Eisenhower later that year, culminating in Khrushchev's 1959 visit to the United States.