January 13, 1959 (Tuesday)
- Forty people were missing after the explosion of the tanker Mirador as it was being towed into the harbor at Iskenderun, Turkey. All 34 of the crew of the tugboat Imroz were presumed dead.
- Union City, California, was created after voters in the towns of Decoto and Alvarado voted 837–220 to merge, and incorporated on January 26. The town of 6,000 would grow to 74,000 after 50 years.
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“Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days—whatever there may be for the dust—the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.”
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