19590919

19590919 is a date written in the YYYYMMDD format, commonly used in computing and data exchange. In the Gregorian calendar it corresponds to September 19, 1959. It is the 262nd day of 1959, leaving 103 days remaining in the year.

The contiguous numeric form 19590919 is valued for its unambiguous, sortable ordering when stored as integers or strings. It is often used as a compact date stamp, a primary key in databases, or a filename component to help organize records chronologically across systems that may have locale-dependent date formats.

Context for the year 1959 places this date within a period of rapid postwar change and the early space age. Notably, earlier in September 1959 the Soviet Luna 2 mission achieved the first human-made object to reach the Moon, marking a milestone in space exploration and the broader Cold War-era scientific competition that influenced technology and international affairs.

Variants of the same day exist in other date notations. 19590919 may be written as 1959-09-19 in ISO 8601 form, or as 19/09/1959 (day-month-year) or 09/19/1959 (month-day-year) in locales that use those conventions. The numeric form remains a practical shorthand in systems that require unambiguous chronological ordering.