page_title: May 1959
section_title: May 24, 1959 (Sunday)
hierarchical_section_title: May 1959 / May 24, 1959 (Sunday)
caption_attribution_description: John Foster Dulles Deutsch: John Foster Dulles Suomi: John Foster Dulles Italiano: John Foster Dulles Nederlands: John Foster Dulles Português: John Foster Dulles
context_page_description: The following events occurred in May 1959:
context_section_description: The Anglo-Soviet Long Term Trade Agreement was signed, marking the first significant agreement between the U.S.S.R. and a Western nation since World War II, was signed.  The five-year trade pact was renewed in 1964 and 1969.
  Born: Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish-born NHL goaltender, in Stockholm (killed in auto crash, 1985)
  Died: John Foster Dulles, who had recently resigned as U.S. Secretary of State (serving 1953–1959), died of cancer in Washington.  He was eulogized by President Eisenhower as "one of the truly great men of our time".
caption: John Foster Dulles, 1888–1959
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