After the Cuban Revolution in January 1959, Castro closed down all the mob casinos in Cuba and drove out the mobsters.

In 1959, Mr. & Mrs Dale Blair from Sandusky, Ohio, drove to Plymouth to see the factory where the vehicle was built.

In 1959, Steckler and a friend drove to Hollywood, California to enter the film industry.

The first trip was in 1959, in which he travelled around the world, and the second was in 1960, in which he drove around Europe.

The BRP BRM P25 which Stirling Moss drove to second place in the 1959 British Grand Prix, BRP's first podium finish. The race was won by Australian Jack Brabham taking his second Grand Prix victory in a works Cooper T51.

In 1959 and 1960 he drove a Formula Junior Stanguellini.

drove a Lotus-Climax to victory at Aintree, in a July 1959 race for sports cars of 1, 400 cubic centimeters to two liters.

Led Nassau 1959 ( Shelby DNF Mechanical ), Porsche RSK 2 Liter winner ( Bonnier ), GT winner Porsche Carerra ( Cuevas ); 1960 1, 000 km Buenos Aires ( Gurney / Gregory DNF Mechanical and accident ); Argentine GP ( Gregory Behra-Porsche ); Havana GP for Sports Cars – 8 car entre, winning overall Moss Maserati, 2 Liter Gregory Porsche RSK, GT Corvette Jeffords, under 2 liter GT Cuevas Porsche Carerra ; Sebring 12 hour, largest team entry ever of 8 cars, 3 Mazeratis ( Gurney / Moss led 8 hours DNF Mechanical ), 2 Porsche Carerras ( under 2 liter GT winner and 2nd OA GT Sheppard / Dungan ), 2 Corvettes Jeffords / Weustoff / Gamble ( Gamble drove 12 hours solo – only one of two known to have done this – earned press notice as “ iron man Gamble ”).

He drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1948-1955, 1959 – 1960, and 1963 seasons with 47 starts, including the Indianapolis 500 races in each season.

Arnold drove sporadically in the USAC Championship Car series, racing between 1959 and 1968, with 11 starts, including the 1959 Indianapolis 500.

The " McKay Special " # 37 car that Force drove in the 1960 Indianapolis 500 was a 1959 Kurtis Kraft 500J, owned and entered by Roy McKay of Dayton, Ohio.

Born in Wabash, Indiana, he drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1950, 1953 – 1957, 1959, and 1961-1962 seasons with 20 starts.

Larson drove in the USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1956-1959 and 1964-1965 seasons with 53 starts, including the 1958 and 1959 Indianapolis 500 races.

He drove in his final 500 in 1959, when he was eliminated from the race in a four-car accident.

He drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1950, 1953 – 1956, 1958-1958, and 1963 seasons with 19 starts, including the Indianapolis 500 races in 1950, 1953, 1955, 1956, and 1959.

He drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1954-1959 seasons with 13 starts, including the Indianapolis 500 races in 1955-1956, and 1959.

He drove in the USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1958-1960 seasons with 5 starts, including the 1959 and 1960 Indianapolis 500 races.

On the American television show Columbo, starring Peter Falk, the shambling hero, detective Lt. Colombo, drove a shabby-looking 403 cabriolet dating from 1959 or 1960.

Petty drove a 1959 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 (# 42 ), Beauchamp a 1959 Ford Thunderbird (# 73 ) and Weatherly a 1959 Chevrolet (# 48 ), all coupés.

Fitch also served as the first manager for Chevrolet's Corvette racing team, and the first general manager of the Lime Rock Park race track, where he organized ( and drove in ) a famous Formula Libre race in 1959, where Rodger Ward shocked the expensive and exotic sports cars by beating them on the road course in an Offenhauser powered midget car, normally considered competitive for oval tracks only.

In 1959 he drove a RSK for Porsche at Sebring, a Lister Jaguar for Cunningham, a Corvette for Chevrolet's Bill Mitchell, and a Cooper Monaco.

Published in Tintin magazine from September 1958 to November 1959, Tintin in Tibet sent Tintin to the Himalayas in search of Chang Chong-Chen, the Chinese boy he had befriended in The Blue Lotus.

The Lotus Group of Companies was formed in 1959.

* Lotus 16 ( 1958 – 1959 ): F1 / F2 car based on the Twelve

* Lotus 17 ( 1959 ): Sports racer update of the 15 — not successful

He competed in the Le Mans 24 Hour race in 1959, 1960 and 1961, finishing second in class in 1959 driving a Lotus Elite, and finishing third overall in 1960, driving an Aston Martin DBR1.

In 1959, Colin Chapman moved his fledgling Lotus group of companies, including Lotus Cars and Team Lotus from its outgrown premises at Hornsey to a purpose built facility on Delamare Road.

Success in sports car racing saw him make his Formula One debut for Team Lotus in 1959.

After a frustrating year in 1959 spent with his own Formula Two Cooper, he received an invitation to run his Lotus 18 as a second works car for 1960.

His single World Championship Formula One entry was at the 1959 British Grand Prix driving his Formula 2 Lotus 12, and he failed to qualify.

The Lotus 17 was a sports car racing model built by Lotus Cars in 1959.

* Peel Me a Lotus, London, 1959

It has been Norwegian Elite League champions five times, most recently in 1989, and also in 1986, 1977, 1976, and 1959.

The win over the Bears sent the Gaels into the " Elite Eight ," making it only the second team in school history to make it to the Elite Eight along with the 1959 men's basketball team.

* Morris Major ( Series II & Elite ,) 1959 – 1964

After finishing his National Service in 1959 in the Royal Artillery as a B2 radar operator, he worked as a mill operative on the fourth floor at Townhead Mill in Rochdale and travelled home each weekend to Heswall on a scooter borrowed from his sister.

He shared second place in the 26th Soviet final with Tal, at Tbilisi 1959, finishing a point behind champion Tigran Petrosian, on 12½ / 19.

Government began the process of selling the town to the public in 1957, finishing in 1959.

Between 1959 and 1963, and in 1968, Bahia was the team representing Bahia state at the Taça Brasil ( the precursor of the Brazilian Championship ), winning the title in 1959 and finishing as runner-up in 1961 and 1963.

His last attempt to enter parliament came at the 1959 General Election, when he stood for the Liberal Party at Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles, again finishing second.

1959 – 60: Playing in a league now dominated by superstars like Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors and Bob Pettit of the St. Louis Hawks, the Nationals hold their own posting a solid 45 – 30 record, while finishing in 3rd place.

The White Sox would finally win the American League pennant in 1959, finishing the regular season five games ahead of the Cleveland Indians.

* 1958 – 1959 – Relegated to Division Three, after finishing 21st in Division Two

From 1959 to 1965, the team played in the second division, except during the 1962 / 63 season, finishing 20th out of 20 in the first division.

In the 1958 / 59 season, Gateshead finished in twentieth ( 20th ) position at the end of the season, then the following season, the 1959 / 60 campaign, Gateshead finished the season even lower than the previous one, finishing in twenty-second ( 22nd ) position.

Di Sarli, already seriously ill, gave his last performance on March 8, 1959, in the club Podestá de Lanús, finishing with a performance of Bahía Blanca, his own composition dedicated to his hometown.

He tied for first place in the 1959 Manitoba Open .. Divinsky scored 7. 5 / 11 at Bognor Regis 1966, finishing in a tie for 7-13th places.

From 1948 to 1959, Surrey were the pre-eminent English county team, finishing either first or second in the county championship in 10 seasons out of 12.

Allison wasn't an especially fast player, but he was among the most feared base-runners of his time in hustling out numerous doubles and triples-leading the league in triples in 1959 ( with 9 ) and finishing in the top 10 twice in doubles ( 1960 & 1964 ) and four times in triples ( 1959, 1962, 1967 and 1968 ).

After a mediocre decade in the in 1953, AC Omonia would make its closest push for the title during the 1959 – 60 season after finishing 2nd only 1 point behind Anorthosis Famagusta.

In 1959 the White Sox won their first American League pennant since the Black Sox scandal in 1919, finishing the regular season five games ahead of the Indians.

In fact the rule about crossing the finishing line was inconsistently applied-at the 1959 German Grand Prix, Harry Schell was classified 7th despite only completing 49 of the race's 60 laps.

From 1959 to 1975, Lecce had seventeen seasons in Serie C. They came extremely close to promotion several times during that period, finishing second three seasons in a row ( 1971 – 72, 1972 – 73, 1973 – 74 ) before gaining promotion in the 1975 – 76 season.