America - 1959AD
In 1959AD:
Alaska was inaugurated as the 49th state of the Union.
Hawaii was inaugurated as the 50th state of the Union.
The Boeing 707 jet airliner entered service.
The first flight was made by the X-15 rocket-powered research aircraft.
NASA selected the first seven U.S. astronauts.
The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York City.
Artist Robert Rauschenberg created the three-dimensional collage
Monogram
.
Rock'n'roll star Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash.
Rod Serling hosted
The Twilight Zone
television series.
Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe starred in the film
Some Like it Hot
.
Film actor Charlton Heston won the Academy Award for his role in
Ben-Hur
.
Lorraine Hansberry's
A Raisin in the Sun
was the first Broadway play by a black woman.
Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical
The Sound of Music
was produced.
American writer Leon Uris published
Exodus
, a novel on the founding of Israel.
American writer William Burroughs published
The Naked Lunch
.
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