Born in February 1959 - Zodiac Signs, Personality and Horoscopes

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February 1959 Tropical Ephemeris

What happened in February 1959

• February 2, 1959: Nine ski hikers perished in the northern Ural Mountains in the Dyatlov Pass incident. Their bodies were found a few weeks later. The cause of their deaths remains a mystery.
• February 3, 1959: A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, killed musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson. The tragedy was later termed "The Day the Music Died", popularized in Don McLean's 1971 song "American Pie".
• February 6, 1959: The first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile was accomplished at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• February 9, 1959: Yugoslavia and Spain established trade relations, but not diplomatic ones.
• February 13, 1959: TAT-2, AT&T's second transatlantic telephone cable, went into operation between Newfoundland and France.
• February 16, 1959: Fidel Castro became Premier of Cuba.
• February 17, 1959: Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite, was launched to measure cloud cover for the United States Navy.
• February 18, 1959: Jesús Sosa Blanco, a colonel in the Cuban army of Fulgencio Batista, was executed in Cuba after being convicted of committing 108 murders for Batista.
• February 19, 1959: The London and Zürich Agreements were signed, under which the United Kingdom agreed to grant independence to Cyprus.
• February 20, 1959: The Canadian Government canceled the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow interceptor aircraft project.