1959 (WOD)

Events

• The 36th official meeting of the Camarilla's Inner Circle.^[1]
• Endron International's first president, Hiram Bollingsworth, is so successful that several Pentex board members (including Harold Zettler) get nervous and arrange for a fatal accident.^[2]
• Pentex completes its takeover of Magadon, Incorporated in the later months of this year.^[3] Co-founder and Director of Administration Matthew Davies is the most vocal objector, but he accepts Pentex's extremely generous severance package.^[4]
• Harold Masters, a homid and Galliard of Glass Walkers ancestry, is born around this year.^[5]
• Kula Wiseblood, Homid Ahroun Black Fury, is born.^[6]
• The summer issue of Paradigma includes an article by Doctor Luminous, wherein he recounts how the Electrodyne Engineers defected from the Technocracy and joined the Traditions.^[7]
• The autumn issue of Paradigma includes an essay by Doctor Aryeh where he suggests that golems and robots make the best acolytes.^[8]
• A vote is made for Hawai'ian statehood. The vote does not have the option of independence.^[9]
• Acting on behalf of the Virtual Adepts, Roger Thackery begins talks with Etherite Julian Spence regarding admission to the Traditions.^[10][11]
• The 14th Dalai Lama flees Tibet and establishes a government in exile in Dharamsala, India.^[12]
• Vietnam president Ngo Dimh Diemh's Catholic chauvinism and despotism creates an opportunity for invasion.^[13]
• Telepath and financier Howard Jennings Marsh dies. His psychic heirs establish the Marsh Institute, ostensibly a conservative think-tank.^[14]
• Dorian Lacroix bani Bonisagus dies. He is replaced by Alessandra Wincott bani Fortunae as Headmistress of the Straussen Academy.^[15]
• Leland Chin is born.^[16]

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