An outdoor hockey game in Sweden is cut short, 1959.

Korean children at the Malli-dong neighbourhood, in Seoul, South Korea - 1959

Eskimo woman fleshing polar bear hide, Barrow, Alaska between 1939 to 1959

Ernest Hemingway, Alec Guinness, and Noel Coward in Havana, 1959.

A twelve-year-old Bill Cliton with his tenor saxophone. 1958/1959.

Barbara Ledermann, a childhood friend of Anne Frank, outside a cinema showing the film "The Diary of Anne Frank." She stood debating whether to go in. Finally she decided not to. "I’ve seen too much human suffering already," she said. 1959

This photo, named "David & Goliat", shows Fidel Castro at the Lincoln Memorial on April 19, 1959

Fidel Castro laying a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial circa 1959.

Brooklyn Gang, 1959. by Bruce Davidson

Japanese Crown prince Akihito and Crown princess Michiko pose with Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako, following their wedding in Tokyo - 1959

Happy french girl and her cat, 1959

Aurora Vargas is forcefully evicted from her home in Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, where three Mexican American neighborhoods were demolished to make room for Dodger Stadium. May 8, 1959.

Children Cross the River Using Pulleys on Their Way to School, 1959, Italy,

ne of the last photos taken of 9 russian hikers in the Ural mountains before they found dead and with injured bodies in the snow under mysterious circumstances in what became known as the "Dyaltov pass incident" which remains unsolved, february 1959.

Children in France playing with a toy guillotine in 1959

In 1959, an entire family in Alberta, Canada was massacred by the family's oldest son. Here is a police photo of the shoes of the victims. The oldest victim was 53 years old. The adults were both shot, while each of the five children were bludgeoned to death .

Che Guevara giving interview on India's national radio station, 1959

Khurshchev during his 1959 visit to the US holds a corn while visiting the Iowa cornfields.

Fidel Castro putting on his scuba gear in 1959. The photo gained notoriety, and somewhat dented his image as a sex symbol, in Cuba due to his skinny legs

Vincent Price on the set of “The House on Haunted Hill”, 1959 .

Dior models in the streets of Soviet Moscow, 1959

Ed Sullivan interviewing Fidel Castro on 11 January 1959, ten days after President Fulgencio Batista was overthrown .

Cuban Army Colonel Jesús Sosa Blanco is publicly tried for war crimes during the Revolution, in front of 17,000 people. He was implicated in dozens of murders. As the enraged crowd screamed for him to be killed, Sosa called the "scene was worthy of ancient Rome", Havana, 1959 .

Lumbee Indians fighting Ku Klux Klan members during the Battle of Hayes Pond. Maxton, North Carolina. January 18, 1959

A woman and a man playing "Qız-qov", Azerbaijan SSR 1959

Dalai Lama in India After Escaping from Mao Zedong, 1959

A rally in Little Rock, 1959

(04/01/1959) Current Dalai Lama at age 23, arrives in India seeking asylum.

Happy French Girl And Her Cat, 1959

c. 1959 Before the 101 Freeway opened, photographer Leigh Wiener took this photo of his son Devik on the off-ramp to Laurel Canyon Blvd in Studio City, California.

London Heathrow Airport in 1959. Photo by Graham Cosserat

Guitarist Blind Willie McTell (1898-1959), taken sometime in the 1920s.

Football legend Pelé on his pledge of allegiance to the brazilian flag, during his time on mandatory military service In 1959, Santos municipality of São Paulo, Brazil.

Cuban revolutionaries Camilo Cienfuegos & Rafael Ochoa at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, 1959.

Bruce Lee with his first student Jesse Glover 1959. Jesse would also become Bruce's first assistant instructor in the US

KLM stewardess with an AR-10 rifle during training before the polar flights. Rifle carried on plane in case of emergency landing and the appearance of polar bears. 1959.

Children going to school crossing a river by pulley in Modena, Italy, 1959

A transatlantic passenger arriving in the harbour, Henri Cartier-Bresson, New York City, 1959.

Nikita Khrushchev Holding Up Corn, Moscow 1959

this is the last photo taken by a group of experienced Russian hikers, the night they disappeared on the 1st of February 1959.

January, 1959 - Soviet leader Anastas Mikoyan and others looking at vanilla ice cream cartons in a freezer, during his visit to the United States. (Photo by Thomas O'Halloran via Library of Congress)

Miss Iraq 1947 - born to a Jewish Baghdadi family, Renée Dangoor would become the first beauty queen in the country’s history. Her family ran one of the largest Arabic language printing houses in the world before they fled the country and their property expropriated in 1959.

American singer Elvis Presley signing autographs for fans in West Germany - 1959

Spectators covered in snow during the 1959 Prep Bowl, Chicago, Illinois.

Working shoes, New York, 1959 .

1959 University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team

An old villager in Gandhi cap garlanding Ernesto "Che" Guevara during his visit in India at 1959 after the Cuban revolution

The Day the Music Died. The wreckage of the plane that carried rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson, which crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa. 3 February 1959.

Karaköy, İstanbul 1959 by Ara Güler

Dalai Lama entering India after escaping from Tibet escorted by Indian Army soldiers,1959