Timeline December 1959

Events in December 1959 9

• 1956 – 1959 Military Training and Education Attended the Norwegian Military Academy and the Cavalry Officers' Candidate School, followed by studies in political science, history and economics at Balliol College, Oxford. He would maintain a lifelong connection to the Norwegian armed forces.
• 1958 – 1959 Beauty Queen and College Won the title of Miss Photogenic, Miss La Jolla and Miss San Diego as a teenager. Entered San Diego State College on a drama scholarship in 1958.
• 1959 1959: Jack Brabham Cooper Australian Brabham won the first of his three titles in the revolutionary rear-engined Cooper, famously pushing his car across the finish line at the season finale at Sebring after running out of fuel.
• 1959 First Marriage and Beauty Titles Married high school sweetheart James Welch, taking his surname. Had already won several teen beauty titles including Miss Photogenic and Miss La Jolla.
• 1959 First New York Solo Show: Infinity Nets Held her first solo exhibition in New York at the Brata Gallery, showing a series of enormous white net paintings — canvases sometimes over 30 feet long, entirely covered in a hypnotic sequence of tiny loops. Donald Judd reviewed the show enthusiastically; both Judd and Frank Stella bought paintings.
• 1959 Moved to London Moved to London, where he appeared in West End shows including Oliver! The move would shape his international career.
• 1959 Antarctic Treaty signed Twelve nations set Antarctica aside for peaceful science Twelve nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union, signed the Antarctic Treaty in Washington, D.C., setting the continent aside for peaceful scientific cooperation and banning military activity there. It was one of the first Cold War-era arms control agreements. The treaty took effect in 1961 and remains in force.
• 1959 – 1998 Florence Griffith-Joyner (1959-1998) Died 21 September 1998, aged 38 Florence Griffith-Joyner, known as Flo-Jo, the American sprinter who set world records in the 100m and 200m at the 1988 Seoul Olympics that still stand, died in her sleep from an epileptic seizure on 21 September 1998. She remains widely regarded as the fastest woman in history.
• 1959 Val Kilmer born in Los Angeles Val Edward Kilmer was born on 31 December 1959 in Los Angeles, California. His father Eugene was a real estate developer and aerospace equipment distributor; his mother Gladys was a homemaker. Val grew up in the San Fernando Valley with brothers Mark and Wesley. Wesley drowned in a jacuzzi at age 15, a tragedy that profoundly affected the family and Val in particular.