Text on "The Year 1959 in Review" Coffee Gift Mug

• Frank Sinatra wins his first Grammy Award. Best Album for Come Dance with Me.
   
• Movies: Some Like It Hot, North by Northwest, Ben-Hur, Anatomy of a Murder, Room at the Top - Record of the Year: "Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu" (Volare); Album of the Year: The Music From Peter Gunn, Henry Mancini; Song of the Year: "Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu,"
   
• Books: William Burroughs, Naked Lunch - D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover - Robert Lowell, Life Studies - Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself - James A. Michener, Hawaii - Grace Paley, The Little Disturbances of Man - Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago - Philip Roth, Goodbye Columbus and Five Short Stories
   
• Alaska and Hawaii (Jan 3 and Aug. 21) become the 49th and 50th states.
   
• Cuban President Batista resigns and flees (Jan. 1). Fidel Castro assumes power (Feb. 16). -Tibet's Dalai Lama escapes to India (Mar. 31). - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev tours the United States, meeting with Eisenhower at Camp David.
   
• US Statistics: President: Dwight D. Eisenhower - Vice President: Richard M. Nixon - Population: 177,829,628 - Life expectancy: 69.9 years - Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 4.6.
   
• New French constitution adopted (Sept. 28)
  de Gaulle elected president of 5th Republic (Dec. 21).