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`whenYear` >='-3000'
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1959
Fidel Castro
met
Jackie Robinson
on
4/23/1959
in
Manhattan
...
723492
Stepan Bandera
was assassinate by
KGB
on
10/15/1959
...
713219
Joseph-Armand Bombardier
invented
snowmobile
in
1959
...
338356
Colin MacInnes
wrote
Absolute Beginners
in
1959
...
276644
Eskia Mphahleles
wrote
Down Second Avenue
in
1959
...
300831
Gunter Grass
wrote
The Tin Drum
in
1959
...
339977
Heinrich Boll
wrote
Billiards at Half Past Nine
in
1959
...
287194
Kieth Waterhouse
wrote
Billy Liar
in
1959
...
287202
Laurie Lee
wrote
Cider with Rosie
in
1959
...
288273
William Burroughs
wrote
The Naked Lunch
in
1959
...
339688
Frank Lloyd Wright
on
4/9/1959
to
reporter
" Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
...
747564
Martin Luther King Jr
moved to
Atlanta
in
1959
...
400303
Peoples Republic of China
entered
1959 Tibetan uprising
in
1959
...
9377
Tibet
entered
1959 Tibetan uprising
in
1959
...
9380
Kingdom of Laos
lost
North Vietnamese invasion of Laos
in
1959
...
9404
Malcolm X
traveled to
Nigeria
in
1959
...
715204
North Vietnam
won
North Vietnamese invasion of Laos
in
1959
...
9376
Peoples Republic of China
won
1959 Tibetan uprising
in
1959
...
9378