Unsolved deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union (now Russia) between 1 February and 2 February 1959. It took place on 2 February 1959 in what is now the Russian Federation. The setting was North Urals and Dyatlov Pass. About 9 people died. Some 0 were injured.
Before and after
- 1959Founding of York University
- 1959Invention of Dijkstra's algorithm
- 1 January 1959Castro's revolution takes power in Cuba
- 2 January 1959Launch of Luna 1
- 2 February 1959Dyatlov Pass incident
- 8 February 1959Birth of Mauricio Macri
- 9 April 1959Death of Frank Lloyd Wright
- 15 April 1959Birth of Emma Thompson
- 20 April 1959Founding of European Court of Human Rights
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