Harding High School
Class Of 1959
What Happened in '59
How Much things cost in 1959
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.01%
Average Cost of new house $12,400
Average Yearly Wages $5,010
Cost of a gallon of Gas 25 cents
Average Cost of a new car $2,200
Movie Ticket $1.00
January - Castro sworn in as Cuban premier
- Alaska becomes the 49th state
February - The Day the Music Died - Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash
March - Dalai Lama flees Tibet and travels to India
April - NASA announces the first seven astronauts
May 26 - Harding Highschool second graduation held
August - Hawaii becomes the 50th state
September - Bonanza debuts as the first regulary scheduled color television series
October - The Twilight Zone debuts
November - Ben-Hur premieres in New York City
- Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the upopular Edsel
December - Motown Record Label is founded in Detroit
Popular Films
- Ben-Hur
- Some Like It Hot
- Anatomy of a Murder
- North by Northwest
- Sleeping Beauty
Popular Singers
- Doris Day
- Frank Sinatra
- Connie Francis
- Jim Reeves
- Ella Fitzgerald
Technology 1959
Boeing 707 Jet Airliner comes into service cutting 8 hrs from transatlantic Flight
First Pictures Of Earth From Space Taken By Explorer 6
IBM shipped the transistor-based IBM 1401 mainframe.
Xerox launches the first commercial copier
US Launches first Weather Station in Space
QANTAS introduces the Boeing 707 on its Sydney-San Francisco route, the first transpacific service flown by jet.