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Mayor Wagner, Mitchell, Assemblyman Lama propose empowering city to condemn property in business dists for use as off-st truck-loading facilities; Chmn Felt outlines plans
NYC to ask state for $11-million subsidy to avert rise, '59
Sec Anderson defends Adm concern over inflation against challenges of Dem and 1 Repub, Cong Econ Com hearing
Eisenhower proposes broad program, message to Cong; seeks better understanding as well as strengthened rights laws; Part 3 of '57 Civil Rights Act authorizing Justice Dept to sue in behald of individual rights omitted; Repubs hail program as moderate, Southerners attack it as pol; Johnson, others reactions
Govt says Nye confessed he was hired in Nov by Batista regime for $100,000 to kill Castro; Nye moved to Camp Columbia; held incommunicado; executions continue
1959Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.[†]
Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000.
1959At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.[†]
Cape Canaveral is a cape in Brevard County, Florida, in the United States, near the center of the state's Atlantic coast. Officially Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, it lies east of Merritt Island, separated from it by the Banana River. It is part of a region known as the Space Coast, and is the site of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Since many U.S. spacecraft have been launched from both the station and the Kennedy Space Center on adjacent Merritt Island, the two are sometimes conflated with each other.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]