Timeline July 1959

Events in July 1959 7

• 1915 – 1959 Billie Holiday Jazz singer Lady Day — the American jazz singer whose phrasing changed popular singing, and whose Strange Fruit became a landmark of protest music.
• 1959 Renamed "The Shadows" Six Bells pub, Ruislip After legal threats from the American band of the same name, "The Drifters" needed a new name. Jet Harris coined "The Shadows" during a relaxed afternoon with Hank Marvin at the Six Bells pub in Ruislip in July 1959.
• 1959 Wimbledon 1959 Men: Alex Olmedo · Women: Maria Bueno
• 1959 Duke Ellington scores Anatomy of a Murder Film score His score for Otto Preminger's film wins three Grammys.
• 1959 First American combat deaths of the Vietnam War Two U.S. advisors killed in guerrilla attack at Bien Hoa Major Dale Buis and Master Sergeant Chester Ovnand were killed when Viet Cong guerrillas attacked a U.S. military advisory compound at Bien Hoa. They are commonly regarded as the first American servicemen killed in the Vietnam War. Their names are the first listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
• 1959 Billie Holiday dies in New York Aged 44 Dies under police guard in hospital.
• 1959 Nixon and Khrushchev hold the "Kitchen Debate" Impromptu Cold War exchange at a Moscow exhibition Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev engaged in an unscripted, televised debate over capitalism and communism while touring a model American kitchen at a U.S. exhibition in Moscow. The exchange became a defining moment of Cold War public diplomacy. It was widely covered in the press on both sides of the Iron Curtain.