The Beginning of a New Era - 1959

Ephemerides

• Revolutionary Fidel Castro drives dictator Fulgencio Batista from power in Cuba.
• The United States gain a fiftieth state: Hawaii. The British, Greeks and Turks sign an agreement for the island of Cyprus to become independent.
• Détente in the Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev visits the United States.
• The arrival of new president General Charles de Gaulle at the Élysée marks the beginning of the 5th French republic.