On this day
Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
Portraits and Illustrations
US, in reply to USSR Nov 27 note charging West undermined occupation accords, blames USSR for breakdown of Potsdam Pact and other accords
2 priests of Holy Resurrection Ukrainian Orthodox Ch, Bronx, repulse License Dept inspector W Meyer efforts to serve them with summons for operating unlicensed bingo. New Terrace Garden, Bronx; illus; license was revoked for alleged failure to pay prize; Ch dean, Rev W M Propheta had asked Mayor Wagner to intercede
NYS bill to be offered at Mayor Wagner request to replace NYC Bur with Real Estate Dept headed by Comr apptd by Mayor; '58 scandals revd
fight opens; Johnson, at end of 1st day, wins temporary control by parliamentary tactics; liberal bloc helped by Nixon in series of opinions from chair; fight develops as contest between Sen Dem and Repub leadership and bipartisan bloc of E and N liberals led by Humphrey, Douglas, C P Case, Javits; Johnson, liberals plans detailed; Nixon opinion, in effect, holds majority has right to write new rules at Cong opening free from filibuster threat; liberal effort to offer motion to proceed to adopt new rules balked by Johnson motion to adjourn, which was carried 73-23; liberals score tactics; Anderson, Douglas, C P Case, Javits comment
1959Paul Hester, Australian drummer (died 2005)[†]
Paul Newell Hester was an Australian musician and television personality. He was the drummer for the band Split Enz for their last year together from December 1983 to December 1984, and co-founding member and drummer of the band Crowded House.
1959Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.[†]
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France. In 1958, amid the Algiers putsch, he came out of retirement when appointed Prime Minister by President René Coty. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after approval by referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position he held until his resignation in 1969.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]