Far side of the Moon side visible to Earth. On October 7, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photographs of the lunar far side, eighteen of them resolvable, covering one-third of the surface invisible from the Earth. The images were analysed, and the first atlas of the far side of the Moon was published by the USSR Academy of Sciences on November 6, 1960. It included a catalog of 500 distinguished features of the landscape. A year later, the first globe (1:13 600 000 scale ) containing lunar features invisible from the Earth was released in the USSR, based on images from
1959 News of the World Snooker Plus Tournament matches were played in Burroughes Hall, London. Joe Davis made the first century break, 108, on the opening day of the tournament. Joe Davis made sure of victory by beating John Pulman in the penultimate match. Fred Davis lost the last match 13–12 but he had needed to win only 11 frames to finish in second place ahead of Pulman. Table The positions were determined firstly by the number of matches won (MW) and, in the event of a tie, the number of frames won (FW). 1959 News of the World Snooker Plus Tournament The 1959 News of the World