February 1959

the éphéméride | All on February and 1959.

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the French fleet of the Mediterranean withdraws integrated command of NATO.
Texas Instruments carries out the first Integrated circuit after its engineers imagined the way of putting more than one transistor on the same support and to connect them without wire.

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a referendum, in Swiss, rejects the possibility with the women of being able to vote during a federal voting.

February 3rd:

Death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Big Bopper American singers of Rock' roll, killed in an air crash close to Clear Lake in the Iowa.

February 4th:

the Great Britain sign an agreement with Euratom for a co-operation in the civil use of nuclear energy.

February 6th:

the Christian Democrat Antonio Segni form the new government of Italy with the collaboration of the liberals and the monarchists.
First test of successful launch with Cap Canaveral (Florida) of the intercontinental ballistic missile Titan.

February 7th:

the the USSR gives its agreement to help Chinese industry.
the the USSR announces its participation in large scales with a whole of plans in the development of the economic scenes of Iraq, the economic technical collaboration and, and the training of the Iraqi students in the Soviet establishments and factories.

February 8th:

Death of the General William J. Donovan (76 years), chief of the office of the strategic services at the time of the Second world war.

February 9th:

the United States announces a plan of supply of weapons in Indonesia.

February 10th:

a tornado falls down on Saint-Louis, causing the death of 22 people, and making 350 wounded, 5.000 without shelters and 12 USD million of damage (500 million FRF year 2000).

February 11th:

the talks stop between Iran and the USSR, after two weeks of negotiation about a new economic aid and non-aggression pact.
Laos announces that he recognizes the United Nations like referee of his conflicts with the Nam North-Vietnamese soldier.

February 13rd:

Launching of the Headstock Barbie (Barbie Millicent Roberts), created by Ruth Handler, founder of Mattel Creations, and its husband.

February 14th:

Death of Warren Dodds (64 years), one of the most famous American beaters of Jazz of New-Orleans.

February 15th:

Death of American Owen Willans Richardson (79 years), Nobel Prize of physics to have discovered the movement of the electrons.
Fine of the more long strike of the American industry of steel, one duration 116 days, stopped after a legal injunction.

February 16th:

Fidel Castro, commander-in-chief of the cuban armed forces, becomes Prime Minister of Cuba.
Birth of John McEnroe, American tennis player.

February 17th:

Launching of Vanguard II (weight 21,5 pounds), first satellite weather of space. It contains the electric eyes designed to take cloud cover during 2 weeks, unfortunately the wavering underestimated with prevented from having significant data.

February 18th:

Based in Germany for its military service, the American rocker Elvis Presley passes in permission to Paris. It attends the night spectacle of the Lido and even goes up, with the general surprise, on scene to sing some titles.

February 19th:

the Great Britain grants to Cyprus its independence, effective in 1960 according to the agreement signed in London by the Prime Ministers of Greece, of Turkey.
Of the American scientists starts to study the effects of radiations on food.

February 21st:

British the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan starts a 11 days visit in Soviet Union, the first since the Second world war. It rejects the offer of Nikita Khrouchtchev of a non-aggression pact and declares the engagement of the British to their alliances.
Cuba request with the Dominican Republic to carry out the arrest of the old Cuban president Fulgencio Batista as a criminal and fugitive legal.

February 22nd:

President Eisenhower signs laws of liberalization of immigration to make it possible 57.000 foreigners to come to join parents established in the United States.

February 23rd:

First meeting of the European Court of the human rights with Strasbourg in France.

February 24th:

Soviet the Prime Minister Nikita Khrouchtchev informs that if the countries of the West refuse to sign a peace treaty with the two German states, Russia will sign a treaty separated with the German Democratic republic and will abolish the agreement of occupation of Berlin.

February 26th:

the state of emergency is issued in Southern Rhodesia.

February 28th:

Agreement between Éypte and Great Britain on the payment of the complaints resulting from the crisis of Suez.

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