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From top left, clockwise: Fidel Castro takes over Cuba; Tsarong Dazang Dramdul and several Tibetan monks captured by the PLA during the 1959 Tibetan uprising; The MOSFET (MOS transistor) is invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs.; Site of Australopithecus boisei discovery in Tanzania.; Surface weather analysis of Typhoon Vera; Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev at the American National Exhibition; The Day the Music Died: The wreckage of the Bonanza at the crash site that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper; Damage to the Congolese Public Market in Léopoldville from the Léopoldville riots.
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| Gregorian calendar | 1959 MCMLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2712 |
| Armenian calendar | 1408 ԹՎ ՌՆԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6709 |
| Baháʼí calendar | 115–116 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1880–1881 |
| Bengali calendar | 1366 |
| Berber calendar | 2909 |
| British Regnal year | 7 Eliz. 2 – 8 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2503 |
| Burmese calendar | 1321 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7467–7468 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4656 or 4449 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4657 or 4450 |
| Coptic calendar | 1675–1676 |
| Discordian calendar | 3125 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1951–1952 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5719–5720 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2015–2016 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1880–1881 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5059–5060 |
| Holocene calendar | 11959 |
| Igbo calendar | 959–960 |
| Iranian calendar | 1337–1338 |
| Islamic calendar | 1378–1379 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 34 (昭和３４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1890–1891 |
| Juche calendar | 48 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4292 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 48 民國48年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 491 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2502 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 2085 or 1704 or 932 — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 2086 or 1705 or 933 |
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1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1959th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 959th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1950s decade.