Labour's failure to win the General election of 1959 and its rejection of unilateralism in 1961 upset the plans of the CND leadership and, although CND retained the support of a significant minority of the population, from this point onwards its prospects of success began to fade.

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.

Morton again led the opposition to the ballot at the 21 March 1959 election, which resulted in an overall gain of three seats but the loss of two seats to Labor.

Singaporean politics have been dominated by the People's Action Party ( PAP ) since the 1959 general election when Lee Kuan Yew became Singapore's first prime minister ( Singapore was then a self-governing state within the British Empire ).

Pope John XXIII, however, gave notice of his intention to convene the Council on 25 January 1959, less than three months after his election in October 1958.

* May 12 – Nepal holds its first multiparty legislative election since 1959.

In the Dutch general election of 1956 they increased their total, receiving thirteen seats, but were still kept out of government until the Dutch general election of 1959, which were held early because of cabinet crisis.

The Father of the House is not necessarily the sitting MP with the earliest date of first election: Sir Peter Tapsell was first elected in 1959, and is the only remaining 1950s MP, but lost his seat in 1964 and was out of Parliament until 1966 ; this meant that Alan Williams was Father of the House until his retirement at the 2010 general election by virtue of his continuous service since the 1964 general election.

Macmillan later appointed Heath Minister of Labour, a Cabinet Minister-as Chief Whip Heath had attended Cabinet but had not been formally a member-after winning the October 1959 election.

1959 election in Merioneth

Its share of the vote increased from 0. 7 % in the 1951 general election to 3. 1 % in 1955 and 5. 2 % in 1959.

In the 1959 election, the party contested a majority of Welsh seats for the first time.

The result was successful for the PAP under Lee Kuan Yew's control who won the 1959 election, and has held power ever since.

The 1959 election was also the first election to produce a fully elected parliament and a cabinet wielding powers of full internal self-government.

He later became First Lord of the Admiralty under Eden in 1956, and under Macmillan served as chairman of the party and campaign organiser for the 1959 general election.

Macmillan led the Conservatives to victory in the October 1959 general election, increasing his party's majority from 67 to 107 seats.

He again returned to the House of Representatives for two short periods, after the Dutch general election of 1956 and 1959.

April 6, 1959 was the first municipal election.

The first official village election was held in April 1959 at which time a new President, Harry P. Keeley, Jr., and three new Trustees were elected.

His aim became a Westminster seat, and he was eventually selected for Labour to stand for election in the Sutton Coldfield constituency but lost to the Conservative Geoffrey Lloyd in 1959.

1959 saw another grand final loss to Melbourne, this time by 37 points, but the fact that the average age of the Essendon side was only 22 was seen as providing considerable cause for optimism.

Following the two championships in 1958 and 1959, the Colts did not return to the NFL Championship for four seasons and saw a transition from head coach Ewbank to a young Don Shula in 1963.

Addington said the first time he saw the game was in 1959.

The 1958 – 59 and 1959 – 60 seasons saw Richard battling injuries that reduced his games played to 42 and 51.

Prior to the start of the 1959 – 60 season saw the arrival of arguably the club's greatest ever manager, Alec Stock.

* 1959 also saw the completion of Ionesco's Rhinoceros which premiered in Paris in January 1960 at the Odeon.

All-white doo-wop groups were also appearing ; The Mello-Kings ' 1956 " Tonight, Tonight " and The Diamonds ' chart-topping " Little Darlin '" in 1957, The Skyliners ' 1959 " Since I Don't Have You " and 1960 " This I Swear ", The Tokens ' 1961 " Tonight I Fell In Love " and " I Love My Baby " all saw success.

There was significant sugar beet traffic on the river between 1925 and 1959, with the last known commercial traffic occurring in 1974. Leisure boating had been popular since 1904, and the post-war period saw the creation of the Great Ouse Restoration Society in 1951, who campaigned for complete renovation of the river.

1959 saw the completion of Table Rock Dam on the White River, which created Table Rock Lake.

The University saw the addition of a number of new faculties in the post-war period, such as the Faculty of Graduate Studies ( 1947 ), the School of Business Administration ( now the Richard Ivey School of Business ) ( 1949 ), the Faculty of Engineering Science ( now the Faculty of Engineering ) ( 1957 ), the Faculty of Law ( 1959 ), and Althouse College for education students ( now the Faculty of Education ) ( 1963 ) and the Faculty of Music ( 1968 ).

The success of The Nun's Story ( 1959 ) saw Finch become an international star, although he never worked in Hollywood for an extended period of time, preferring to base himself in London.

Spring 1959 saw the formation of the Lewes & East Grinstead Railway Preservation Society, forerunner of today's Bluebell Railway Preservation Society.

Allen Ginsberg set the tone of the movement in his poem Howl, a Whitmanesque work that began: " I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness ..." Among the most representative achievements of the Beats in the novel are Jack Kerouac's On the Road ( 1957 ), the chronicle of a soul-searching travel through the continent, and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch ( 1959 ), a more experimental work structured as a series of vignettes relating, among other things, the narrator's travels and experiments with hard drugs.

The club attendance record also stems from the semifinal of the 1959 cup, when 18, 892 spectators saw Viking beat Odd 4 – 0.

The 1959 title win saw Wolves play in the European Cup for the first time, being only the second English club after Manchester United to enter.

This period also saw the first years of full Moroccan independence and Bowles, with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and sponsorship from the US Library of Congress, spent the months of August to September 1959 traveling throughout Morocco with Christopher Wanklyn and Mohammed Larbi recording traditional Moroccan music.

The 86th Congress, by then in its first session, quickly saw the political opportunity the scandals offered ; in October 1959, the House Committee on Legislative Oversight, under Representative Oren Harris's chairmanship, began to hold hearings investigating the scandal.

One such split saw the departure of the faction of Bert Cochran and Clarke, who formed the American Socialist Union, which lasted until 1959.

The following year saw him receive his first ( and only ) nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Mr. Dussell in The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ).

1959 saw a vast increase in the elected proportion.

In Canada, the 1959 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit saw a major change from previous awards.

1959 saw the introduction of the Galaxie name in Ford's model lineup at mid-year.

This negatively impacted the railroad's West Shore Line, which ran along the west bank of the Hudson River from Jersey City to Albany, which saw long-distance service to Albany discontinued in 1958 and commuter service between Jersey City and West Haverstraw, New York terminated in 1959.

2010 saw the introduction of the Lincoln Cent with the new Union Shield reverse which replaced the familiar Lincoln Memorial reverse used from 1959 to 2008.