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Defense officials indicate fiscal '60 budget will begin major integration of long-range missiles into weapons arsenal; predict their replacing manned aircraft on large scale by '60 or '61
Gov Rockefeller stresses inter-relationship of NYS and US problems, inaugural s
H L Matthews describes looting and vandalism in Havana casinos as Pres Batista resigns, flees
The Social Security system on which 75,000,000 American wage-earners and their families rely for protection against the economic hazards of old age was pronounced sound yesterday by a Federal advisory council.
US State Dept reaction; Castro agents force Arroyo from Embassy in Washington; agent in NYC sees junta as transitional
1959Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.[†]
Luna 1, also known as Mechta, E-1 No.4 and First Lunar Rover, was the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of Earth's Moon, the first spacecraft to leave Earth's orbit, and the first to be placed in heliocentric orbit. Intended as a Moon impactor, Luna 1 was launched as part of the Soviet Luna programme in 1959.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]