Born in 1959

£1 in 1959 would be worth approximately £32.40 in today's money.

A selection from Wikipedia's '1959 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

• 7 May – Scientist and novelist C. P. Snow delivers an influential Rede Lecture on The Two Cultures, concerning a perceived breakdown of communication between the sciences and humanities, in the Senate House, University of Cambridge.
• 28 May – The Mermaid Theatre opens in the City of London.
• 1 June – The first episode of Juke Box Jury airs on BBC Television, chaired by David Jacobs.
• 26 August – BMC launches the Mini to showrooms, a two-door, 10-foot-long car with an 848cc four-cylinder transverse engine and a top speed of 70 mph, designed to carry the driver and three passengers and their luggage in comfort.
• 8 October – The 1959 General Election is held resulting in a record third successive Conservative victory. Harold Macmillan, running under the slogan "Life's better with the Conservatives, Don't let Labour ruin it", increases the Conservative majority in Parliament to 100 seats.
• 30 October – Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club opens in the Soho district of London.
• 2 November – The first section of the M1 motorway is opened between Watford and Rugby. It is set to be extended over the next few years, southwards to Edgware and northwards to Leeds.
• 28 December – Associated-Rediffusion first airs the children's television series Ivor the Engine, made by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms in stop motion animation using cardboard cut-outs.

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