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Months in Year 1959: January February March April May June July August September October November December

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Jan 11th - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mayfair Golf Open
Jan 11th - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 28-21
Jan 18th - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
Jan 28th - Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US
Feb 1st - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Havana Golf Tournament
Feb 1st - Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame
Feb 2nd - Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers
Feb 7th - Dorothy Rigney sells White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M
Feb 11th - Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi)
Feb 15th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Tournament
Feb 22nd - 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH)
Feb 23rd - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
Feb 27th - Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players
Feb 27th - Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers
Feb 28th - NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players
Mar 1st - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament
Mar 3rd - SF Giant's rename their stadium Candlestick Park
Mar 8th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
Mar 10th - Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck
Mar 15th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
Mar 18th - Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws
Mar 21st - 21st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: California beats W Va 71-70
Mar 22nd - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament
Mar 29th - Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore
Apr 5th - 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall Jr wins, shooting a 284
Apr 9th - Balt Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Wash Senators)
Apr 9th - Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot
Apr 9th - 13th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics sweep Minn Lakers in 4 games Boston Celtics wins 8th straight title
Apr 12th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
Apr 16th - NY Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard
Apr 16th - Phils' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit
Apr 18th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1
Apr 19th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
Apr 20th - 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42
Apr 22nd - Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings
Apr 22nd - Chicago White Sox beat KC Athletics 20-6, in 1 inning Sox score 11 runs on 1 hit, 10 walks, & 3 errors
Apr 26th - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
May 1st - Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for Heavyweight boxing title
May 1st - White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR
May 2nd - 85th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Tomy Lee wins in 2:02.2
May 3rd - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament
May 7th - "Roy Campanella Night" Largest baseball crowd (93,103 in LA Coliseum) sees Dodgers' Sandy Koufax beat Yankees 6-2 in exhibition
May 9th - Dorothy Rigney, husband John, & Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox
May 10th - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Howard Johnson Golf Invitational
May 11th - Yankee catcher Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games ends
May 15th - 100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst & Williams Teams reenact the original contest
May 16th - 85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57
May 17th - Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122
May 25th - Supreme ct rules La prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional
May 31st - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Cavalier Golf Open
Jun 7th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
Jun 12th - SF Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game
Jun 13th - 59th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot GC NY
Jun 13th - 91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6
Jun 14th - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
Jun 22nd - Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax)
Jun 26th - Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for Heavyweight boxing title
Jun 27th - 14th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
Jul 3rd - 73rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Alex Olmedo beats Rod Laver (64 63 64)
Jul 3rd - 88th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 284 at Muirfield Gullane
Jul 4th - 66th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Darlene Hard (64 63)
Jul 6th - 5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
Jul 7th - 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
Jul 9th - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Open
Jul 9th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
Jul 12th - NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during ankee-Red Sox game
Jul 18th - 1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)
Jul 19th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance
Jul 21st - Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green)
Jul 26th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open
Jul 27th - William Shea announces he plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961
Jul 30th - In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
Aug 1st - New Continental baseball league formed
Aug 2nd - 41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC
Aug 2nd - SF Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 HRs
Aug 3rd - 27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA
Aug 5th - Chic Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in Toronto
Aug 14th - 26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)
Aug 14th - AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver & Houston
Aug 16th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open
Aug 23rd - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
Aug 31st - 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)
Aug 31st - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
Sep 6th - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
Sep 11th - Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
Sep 11th - Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0
Sep 13th - 73rd US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64)
Sep 13th - 79th US Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64)
Sep 13th - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
Sep 17th - 59th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
Sep 20th - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Links Golf Invitation Open
Sep 22nd - Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant
Sep 26th - Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty
Sep 26th - SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0
Sep 27th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open
Sep 27th - Braves & Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68)
Sep 29th - Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, & take NL pennant
Oct 1st - 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature a NY team (LA vs Chic)
Oct 3rd - 13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal
Oct 4th - 1st World Series game played west of St Louis (in LA)
Oct 4th - Cleveland Browns' Jim Brown makes club record 37 rushing attempts
Oct 4th - LA Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394
Oct 6th - Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
Oct 8th - LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
Oct 28th - Buffalo Bills enter AFL
Oct 29th - 10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced
Nov 1st - 1st NHL goalie to wear a hockey mask (Jacques Plante)
Nov 1st - Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Balt
Hall of Fame MLB shortstop Ernie Banks Nov 4th - Ernie Banks, Cubs shortstop, wins 2nd consecutive NL MVP
Nov 5th - AFL announced with 8 teams
Nov 7th - 13th Ryder Cup: US wins 8½-3½ at Eldorado Golf Club (Indian Wells, California)
Nov 12th - White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP
Nov 15th - Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Wash 31-17
Nov 22nd - AFL's 1st draft - NY Titans choice George Izo, QB, Notre Dame
Nov 22nd - Boston Patriots enters AFL
Nov 28th - 47th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 21-7
Nov 30th - Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL
Dec 8th - President Eisenhower watches Pakistan v Aust Test Cricket at Karachi
Dec 11th - Yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri
Dec 18th - Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of NY Titans (AFL)
Dec 21st - Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)
Dec 22nd - NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
Dec 27th - Balt Colts beat NY Giants 31-16 in NFL Championship game