The Cayman Islands ' physical isolation under early British colonial rule allowed the development of an indigenous set of administrative and legal traditions which were codified into a constitution in 1959.

The responsible colonial officer David Gordon Hines from 1947 to 1959 achieved the vast expansion of the co-operatives: by the early 1950s, there were over 400 co-operatives nationally.

In South Vietnam, after the Diệm regime enacted the 10 / 59 Decree in 1959, mobile special military courts dispatched to the countryside to intimidate the rural peoples used guillotines belonging to the former French colonial power to carry out death sentences on the spot.

Mattei visited Moscow in 1959, where he brokered an oil import deal with the Soviet Union in the middle of the Cold War over intense protests from NATO and the U. S. He also publicly supported independence movements against colonial powers, which allowed ENI to take advantage of postcolonial bitterness in places like Algeria.

From October 1952 to December 1959, Kenya was under a state of emergency arising from the " Mau Mau " rebellion against British colonial rule.

Tombalbaye succeeded Gabriel Lisette as head of the Chadian Progressive Party ( PPT ), heading Chad's colonial government from 1959.

He was literary editor of Nation Athenaeum ( 1923 – 1930 ), joint editor of The Political Quarterly ( 1931 – 1959 ), and for a time served as secretary of the Labour Party's advisory committees on international and colonial questions.

In 1959, following revisions to the Constitution which granted Singapore internal self-government, the ceremonial post of Yang di-Pertuan Negara replaced the British colonial Governor of Singapore as the representative of the British monarch in Singapore.

He participated in the 1959 London Conference on Cyprus and during the transitional period, from colonial administration to independence ( 1959 – 1960 ), he served as Minister of Justice.

* Robert Smith ( colonial administrator ) ( 1887 – 1959 ), British Governor of North Borneo

When Singapore gained full self-government from the British colonial government in 1959, waves of anti-Japanese sentiments brewed within the Chinese community and they demanded reparations and an apology from Japan.

When Cherrybrook was subdivided from 1959 onwards, the developers chose colonial architects as a theme for naming some streets.

The church was formally recognised by the Belgian colonial authorities in 1959.

* Charles Robert Smith ( 1887 – 1959 ) British colonial administrator and Governor of North Borneo

It was originally created in 1959 under the Spanish colonial administration under the name Colegio Laboral La Salle.

A continuum of education had existed in what is now the City of Milpitas since the Spanish colonial era, only to be interrupted by brief periods from 1848-1858 upon the secularization of the Californian missions, and 1954 – 1959, in which James Lick High School in the nearby city of San Jose became the high school for Milpitas residents.

His 1959 report on The Fijian People was particularly notable, because it become the document that guided how colonial administers handled the process of Fiji's independence.

Legend has it that the break out of the 1959 revolution put on hold projects for higher towers in the plaza ; these would have contributed to further destroying the existing beautiful colonial and eclectic architecture.

* William George Maxwell ( 1871 – 1959 ), British naturalist and colonial administrator in British Malaya and Straits Settlements

The colonial badge was in use since 1843 in one version or another until it was replaced by the coat of arms granted in 1959.

The arms had been in use in colonial Hong Kong since it was granted on 21 January 1959 and later adopted on the colonial flag in July of that year.

French Equatorial Africa ( Afrique Équatoriale Française ; AEF ) was a federation of four French colonial possessions ( Gabon, Middle Congo ( now the Republic of the Congo ), Oubangui-Chari ( or Ubangi-Shari, now the Central African Republic ) and Chad ), from 1910 to 1959.

In 1959 Sieu Heng defected to the government and provided the security forces with information that enabled them to destroy as much as 90 % of the party's rural apparatus.

In Cuba in 1959, forces led by Fidel Castro and Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista and established a communist regime there with ties to the Soviet Union.

* 1959 – In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.

* Cuban Revolution ( 1953 – 1959 ) – The 1959 overthrow of Fulgencio Batista by Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and other forces resulted in the creation of the first communist government in the western hemisphere.

* The wind of destruction began in Rwanda in 1959, following the beating up of Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa by Tutsi forces.

Returning with them to Cuba, he took a key role in the Cuban Revolution, leading a successful guerrilla war against Batista's forces, overthrowing him in 1959.

The Vietnam War began in 1959 with an uprising by Viet Cong forces supplied by North Vietnam.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, however, a series of qualitative reviews of these studies ( e. g., Bird, 1940 ; Stogdill, 1948 ; Mann, 1959 ) prompted researchers to take a drastically different view of the driving forces behind leadership.

Later bilateral arrangements with individual NATO powers ( 1959 – 1983 ), the Military Training Assistance Plan, which has trained aircrews from developing countries since 1964 and NATO Flying Training in Canada ( NFTC ), since 1998, a partnership of the Canadian Forces, Bombardier Aerospace Corporation and participating air forces.

From 1959, Chocolate's fame in Cuba was overlooked by Fidel Castro and his revolutionary forces, and he almost became a forgotten champion.

From 1959 to 1962 the airline provided direct and indirect support to CIA Operations " Ambidextrous ", " Hotfoot ", and " White Star ", which trained the regular Royal Laotian armed forces.

In a letter to Nehru dated 24 October 1959, Zhou Enlai proposed that India and China each withdraw their forces 20 kilometers from the line of actual control.

In 1959 Sieu Heng defected to the government and provided the security forces with information that enabled them to destroy as much as 90 % of the party's rural apparatus.

From 1923 onward, the First Sea Lord was a member of the Chiefs of Staff Committee ; and from 1923 to 1959 in rotation with the representatives of the other services ( the Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Chief of the Air Staff ) would serve as the chairman of that committee and head of all British armed forces.

Soon after the revolutionary forces triumphed on 1 January 1959, the cabin cruiser was transferred to Havana Bay.

In 1958, Ōoka veered from his usual subjects and produced Kaei (" The Shade of Blossoms ", 1958 – 1959 ), depicting an aging naive nightclub hostess ’ struggle and ultimate demise from the destructive forces of desire and wealth in the decadent 1950s Ginza.

It ended in January 1959, after Batista fled Cuba for Spain, on New Year's Eve when the Movement's forces marched into Havana.

The force was created in 1959, only two years after François Duvalier became president, due to the threat posed to the dictator by the regular armed forces.

The Jebel Akhdar was the scene for a conflict between Omani forces loyal to the Sultan of Oman ( aided by British soldiers including the Special Air Service ) and Saudi Arabian backed rebel forces of the inland Imamate of Oman between 1957 and 1959.

In 1959, Fidel Castro and his forces succeeded in displacing Batista from power.

Following French President Charles de Gaulle's insistence in 1959 that all non-French nuclear-capable forces should be withdrawn from his country, the USAF began a redeployment of its North American F-100-equipped units from France.

Christopher Augustus Cox VC ( 25 December 1889 – 28 April 1959 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.