Top 1959 in the United States (Trending topics)

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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	The Day the Music Died	3,122
2	1959 Yellowstone earthquake	126
3	Quake Lake	98
4	Knox Mine disaster	71
5	Miss Universe 1959	59
6	Arlington Springs Man	55
7	1959 Pan American Games	54
8	American Airlines Flight 320	53
9	Kīlauea Iki	53
10	Poe Elementary School attack	51
11	National Airlines Flight 967	37
12	1959 Escuminac hurricane	36
13	1959 Indianapolis 500	33
14	Explorer 7	33
15	Capital Airlines Flight 75	29
16	Miss USA 1959	29
17	Hurricane Gracie	27
18	Braniff Flight 542	27
19	Vanguard 2	20
20	1959 Pulitzer Prize	20
21	Hurricane Dot (1959)	18
22	1959 Davis Cup	18
23	Steel strike of 1959	17
24	17th World Science Fiction Convention	15
25	13th Tony Awards	15
26	1959 in the United States	15
27	Oregon Centennial	13
28	Meldrim, Georgia trestle disaster	13
29	Woods Hole Conference	13
30	1959 United States Figure Skating Championships	11
31	American films of 1959	less than 5 views
32	1959 World Modern Pentathlon Championships	less than 5 views