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In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]
1959Martina Cole, English television host and author[†]
Eilidh Martina Cole is a British crime writer. As of 2021 she has released twenty-six novels about crime, most of which examine London's gangster underworld. Four of her novels, Dangerous Lady, The Jump, The Take and The Runaway have been adapted into high-rating television dramas. She has achieved sales of over fourteen million in the UK alone and her tenth novel, The Know, spent seven weeks on The Sunday Times hardback best-sellers list.
1959Daniil Andreyev, Russian mystic and poet (born 1906)[†]
Daniil Leonidovich Andreyev was a Russian writer, poet, and Christian mystic.
1959John Auden, English solicitor, deputy coroner and a territorial soldier (born 1894)[†]
John Lorimer Auden MC, was an English solicitor, deputy coroner for Staffordshire and a territorial soldier who served in the First World War. He was a collector of natural history.
1959Riccardo Zanella, Italian politician (born 1875)[†]
Riccardo Zanella was a Fiuman politician who was the only elected president of the short-lived Free State of Fiume.
1959Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.[†]
The 14th Dalai Lama is the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. He served as the resident spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet before 1959 and subsequently led the Tibetan government in exile represented by the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India. A belief central to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition as well as the institution of the Dalai Lama is that he is a living Bodhisattva, specifically an emanation of Avalokiteśvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. The Mongolic word dalai means ocean. He is also known to Tibetans as Gyalwa Rinpoche, Kundun, and Yizhin Norbu. His devotees, as well as much of the Western world, often call him His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is the leader and a monk of the newest Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
China charges India harbored 'command center' of revolt at Kalimpong, New Delhi embassy statement; India shocked, denies charge; China names as revolt leader Tibetan ex-Premier Lokongwa, now in New Delhi with group preparing to petition Nehru; Lokongwa says revolt was against communism as enemy of religion; pub opinion in India builds up against China
US and 8 NATO allies to set up internatl research center, La Spezia, Italy, to be known as SACLANT Anti-Submarine Warfare Research Center; will stress basic research rather than weapons development, concentrating on shallow waters; US to give $2.5 million over next 2 yrs; Rear Adm Hayward is prime mover in center's creation
USSR holds NATO aggressive, statement issued by Tass
The discovery that radio waves can influence the behavior of cells has been reported by a team of scientists.
rebel leader Col Amirouche reptd killed in battle; importance of news seen in Gen Challe making rept; Delouvrier sees same fate for all rebel leaders who reject peace offer, radio s; Amirouche biog
USN urges speeding production of Polaris craft; asks at least 24 by '64 or earlier; would have Adm release $300 million Cong appropriated for craft but not authorized for contracting obligations; Burke favors speedier funds authorization; Sec McElroy, Rear Adm Raborn tour Polaris construction bases on W Coast; Sen Cotton favors accelerated production; Vice Adm Rickover urges fleet of 'killer' submarines, int with Sen Long
Murphy radio s on new taxes
32 hurt when car crashes into bus, Bklyn; car driver L Mercado arrested for drunken driving
WASHINGTON, March 29 -Maurice Couve de Murville, French Foreign Minister, arrived today for the Western foreign ministers' meeting Tuesday and Wednesday. The sessions will precede the tenth anniversary meeting of the North Atlantic Council on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
5th Ave parade; illus
Citizens Budget Comm survey of 17 cities finds most link plight to Fed and state appropriation or control of revenue sources; finds cities that are core of met areas being squeezed between growing populations and too few sources of revenue; H Riegelman comments