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| | ON THIS DAY Search Results for Year: 1959
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Click on an event title in the list to view more information about that event. Click on a date in the list to view a list of other events on the same date. Number of Records Matching Query: 112
| | Event Date: | 1st January 1959 | | Description: | TOP TV SHOWS OF 1959 | | |
| | Summary: | 1959-60
1 Gunsmoke CBS
2 Wagon Train NBC
3 Have Gun, Will Travel CBS
4 The Danny Thomas Show CBS
5 The Red Skelton Show CBS
6 Father Knows Best (tie) CBS
6 77 Sunset Strip (tie) ABC
8 The Price Is Right NBC
9 Wanted: Dead or Alive CBS
10 Perry Mason CBS
11 The Real McCoys ABC
12 The Ed Sullivan Show CBS
13 The Bing Crosby Show ABC
14 The Rifleman ABC
15 The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show NBC
16 The Lawman ABC
17 Dennis the Menace CBS
18 Cheyenne ABC
19 Rawhide CBS
20 Maverick ABC | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musican | | | Event Date: | 7th January 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Bassist, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 12th January 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist, Germany | | |
| | Event Date: | 15th January 1959 | | Description: | The TV Week Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards | | |
| | Event Date: | 15th January 1959 | | Description: | The first Awards were presented on "In Melbourne Tonight" | | |
| | Summary: | The TV Week Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy in 1960 after he won the first 'Star Of The Year' award, the name 'Logie' awards honours John Logie Baird, a Scotsman who invented the television. | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 16th January 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Nigeria | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 17th January 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 20th January 1959 | | Description: | Singer-songwriter, guitarist and artist USA | | |
| | Event Date: | 23rd January 1959 | | Description: | He recorded for the last time in his home alone on an old ampex recorder in 1959. | | |
| | Summary: | 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. He recorded for the last time in his home alone on an old ampex recorder, 1959. | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 2nd February 1959 | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, Australia | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 3rd February 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarst, Composer, Producer, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 3rd February 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Non Entertainer | | | Event Date: | 5th February 1959 | | Description: | Reporter, journalist, writer | | |
| | Sub Title: | Non Entertainer | | | Event Date: | 5th February 1959 | | Description: | Reporter, journalist, writer | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 7th February 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, UK | | |
| | Event Date: | 9th February 1959 | | Description: | A cover with different lyrics was a chart hit for Lloyd Price in 1959. | | |
| | Summary: | "Stagger Lee", is a popular folk song based on the murder of William "Billy" Lyons by Stagger Lee Shelton. Herb Wiedoeft recorded the song in 1924.The Lloyd Price version reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was ranked #456 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 12th February 1959 | | Description: | Composer, pianist, author, and inventor, USA | | |
| | Event Date: | 28th February 1959 | | Description: | Six OClock Rock was an Australian Rock and Roll television show which showed on ABC Television | | |
| | Sub Title: | Acting, Comedian | | | Event Date: | 3rd March 1959 | | Description: | Actor, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 15th March 1959 | | Description: | Saxophonist, Band Leader, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Acting, Musician | | | Event Date: | 18th March 1959 | | Description: | Actress, Singer, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 23rd March 1959 | | Description: | Drummer, Composer, UK | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 27th April 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, Scotland | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 4th May 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | |
| | Event Date: | 4th May 1959 | | Description: | The first Grammy Awards ceremony was helld to honor musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958. | | |
| | Summary: | A Grammy Award (originally called Gramophone Award) — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, to honor musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958. | | |
| | Event Date: | 11th May 1959 | |
| | Summary: | DAVE BABY CORTEZ. "THE HAPPY ORGAN" | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 12th May 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 14th May 1959 | | Description: | Actor, Musician, Television Presenter, Australia | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 14th May 1959 | | Description: | Saxophonist, Composer, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 15th May 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, UK | | |
| | Event Date: | 18th May 1959 | |
| | Summary: | WILBERT HARRISON. "KANSAS CITY" | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 20th May 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, France | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 20th May 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, USA | | |
| | Event Date: | 30th May 1959 | |
| | Summary: | THE JACK GOOD FOUNDED SHOW FINISHES. IT'S LAST TELEVISED SHOW WAS IN 1959. UK | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 2nd June 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | |
| | Event Date: | 5th June 1959 | |
| | Summary: | GRADUATES FROM HIGH SCHOOL, MINNESOTA. USA.1959. | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 9th June 1959 | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Acting, Musician | | | Event Date: | 11th June 1959 | | Description: | Actor, Comedian, Musician, Singer | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 26th June 1959 | | Description: | Guitarist, Vocalist, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 27th June 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 29th June 1959 | | Description: | Bassist, songwriter, Australia | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 6th July 1959 | | Description: | Drummer, UK | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 11th July 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Poet. USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 17th July 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, US | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician, actor | | | Event Date: | 26th July 1959 | | Description: | Actor, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 29th July 1959 | | Description: | Violinist, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 4th August 1959 | | Description: | Singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer. Australia | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 4th August 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, song writer, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 4th August 1959 | | Description: | Guiarist, Composer of songs, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 8th August 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Songwriter, Australian | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 8th August 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, Australia | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 13th August 1959 | | Description: | Keyboardist, Composer, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 29th August 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Record producer, Scotland | | |
| | Sub Title: | Acting, Musician | | | Event Date: | 23rd September 1959 | | Description: | Actor, Singer, Comedian,USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 5th October 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Canada | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 7th October 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 14th October 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Announcer, Australia | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 23rd October 1959 | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, Record producer, Satirist, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician, Acting | | | Event Date: | 10th November 1959 | | Description: | Actress, Vocalist, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 22nd November 1959 | | Description: | Composer of music, Lyricist, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 8th December 1959 | | Description: | Flute, Vocalist, Germany | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 30th December 1959 | | Description: | Comedian, Actress, Singer, Dancer, UK | | |
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