Holly was offered a spot in the Winter Dance Party, a three-week tour across the Midwest opening on January 23, 1959, by the GAC agency, with other notable performers such as Dion and the Belmonts, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson.

Following a performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 2, 1959, Holly chartered a small airplane to take him to the next stop on the tour.

A 1959 national tour launched on July 1, 1959.

The tour began in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 23, 1959.

Blixen was widely respected by contemporaries such as Ernest Hemingway and Truman Capote, and during her tour of the United States in 1959, the list of writers who paid her visits included Arthur Miller, E. E. Cummings, and Pearl Buck.

His first task was a tour of Pakistan in 1994, where Australia had not won a Test since the 1959.

Whitman's initial 18-month tour of duty in 1959 and 1960 was exemplary, and he earned a Good Conduct Medal, a Sharpshooter's Badge and the Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal.

After Holly's death in 1959 the band continued to tour and record with different vocalists, releasing new material into the 21st century.

* Carl Bunch was the drummer for Buddy Holly during the " Winter Dance Party " tour in 1959 in which Holly died ( the Day the Music Died ), and a later for Hank Williams, Jr. and Roy Orbison.

Hollywood stars and foreign dignitaries were attracted to the Stampede ; Bob Hope and Bing Crosby each served as parade marshals during the 1950s, while Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip made their first of two visits to the event as part of their 1959 tour of Canada.

In 1959 he escorted Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev on a highly-publicized tour of the United States.

Likewise, First Deputy Chairman Anastas Mikoyan of the USSR was praised in 1959 for an informal diplomatic tour of the USA that successfully relied more on charming the American public than bargaining with the White House to ease international tensions.

In 1959, Dion and The Belmonts were part of the historic Winter Dance Party tour that lost three performers in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa ; Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson " The Big Bopper ".

The Pips began to perform and tour, eventually replacing Brenda Knight and Eleanor Guest with cousins Langston George and Edward Patten in 1959.

In 1959, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi began his first world tour, writing: " I had one thing in mind, that I know something which is useful to every man ".

In 1959 Allen made his first tour of Europe when he joined Kid Ory's band.

O ' Reilly toured twice with the British Lions, on their 1955 tour to South Africa and their 1959 tour to Australia and New Zealand.

On the 1959 tour he played a further 21 games and scored 21 tries.

From April 24 – June 13, 1959 Peng went on a " military goodwill tour " across the communist world, visiting Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, the Soviet Union, and Mongolia.

In November – December 1961 Peng received permission to leave his residence for the first time since 1959 in order to conduct an inspection tour of Hunan.

In 1959, she carried out an extensive tour of Australia, and attended the Queensland Centenary Celebrations.

The series of speed increases — later in 1955, in 1956, in 1957, in 1958, in 1959 — peaked on 31 December 1964 at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia when he reached ; he remains the world's most prolific breaker of water speed records.

* 1959 – The, Australia ’ s first passenger roll-on / roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.

* October 26 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last man executed in Western Australia, for murdering 8 citizens in Perth, Western Australia between 1959 and 1963.

* " Joey's Song "-# 46, Billboard ; # 35, Cashbox, US ; # 1 ( 8 weeks ), Kent Music Report, Australia ; # 26, Canada, 11 / 1959

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

* 1959: Canberra South Bowling Club, Griffith ( Canberra ), Australia

Category: 1959 establishments in Australia

Category: 1959 establishments in Australia

Dr Neville Yeomans, an Australian Psychiatrist, Clinical Sociologist, Psychologist and Barrister pioneered Self-Help and Mutual Help in Australia through his pioneering work at Australia's first therapeutic community Fraser House ( 1959 – 1968 ), an 80 bed residential unit in North Ryde Sydney ; and former inmates of this unit started many self-help groups around Sydney.

After leaving his home country Silvestri made Paris his domicile in 1959, also travelling to Australia that year, and appearing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra in 1960-61, and making a number of recordings in Paris, London and Vienna for EMI.

In 1959, the airline was acquired by Airlines of South Australia ( ASA ), a subsidiary of Ansett Airlines.

O ' Reilly met his first wife, Australian secretary and pianist Susan M. Cameron, the daughter of a wealthy Australian mining figure in whose name he endowed a professorship at UCD for at least a decade, in 1959 in Australia, after she was suggested as a social contact when he was touring for rugby.

* 1959 — The popular film On the Beach shows the last remnants of humanity in Australia awaiting the end of the human race after a nuclear war.

Laver helped Australia win the Davis Cup four consecutive times from 1959 – 62.

In 1959, Qantas began the first jet service to Honolulu as a stop on its flights between Australia and California.

In Australia, a program called Mr. Squiggle, using a marionette central character of the same name, ran for just over 40 years ( 1959 – 1999 ).

In 1959, a plan featured a new building for the High Court on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin, next to the location for the new Parliament House, and the National Library of Australia.

Oliphant was knighted in 1959 and was made a Companion of the Order of Australia ( AC ) in 1977.

Dyson won a cap for Great Britain while at Huddersfield in 1959 against Australia.

In 1959 and 1967 she was asked by the US Government to present American fashion for the first time in Russia, Germany, Italy, Australia, Japan, Britain and Switzerland.