The first armed version of the Atlas, the Atlas D, was declared operational in January 1959 at Vandenberg, although it had not yet flown.

The first Atlas was commissioned in 1962 but working prototypes of paging had been developed by 1959.

Over the years, LLNL designed the following warheads: W27 ( Regulus cruise missile ; 1955 ; joint with Los Alamos ), W38 ( Atlas / Titan ICBM ; 1959 ), B41 ( B52 bomb ; 1957 ), W45 ( Little John / Terrier missiles ; 1956 ), W47 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1957 ), W48 ( 155-mm howitzer ; 1957 ), W55 ( submarine rocket ; 1959 ), W56 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1960 ), W58 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1960 ), W62 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1964 ), W68 ( Poseidon SLBM ; 1966 ), W70 ( Lance missile ; 1969 ), W71 ( Spartan missile ; 1968 ), W79 ( 8-in.

The spacecraft was launched on an Air Force-Convair Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile coupled to Thor-Able upper stages including an Able x 248 rocket third stage, on November 26, 1959.

The first intercontinental ballistic missile, the SM-65D Atlas ICBM, was delivered and was accepted by SAC's 576th Strategic Missile Squadron on 18 February 1959.

The first Atlas-D flew on 9 September 1959, and following the successful launch, General Thomas S. Power, CINCSAC, declared the Atlas ICBM to be operational.

In July 1959, construction began on the first Series E Atlas ICBM coffin-type launcher ( Atlas operational system test facility # 1 ).

** Vol XI: Historical Atlas and Gazetteer ( Oxford University Press 1959 )

It was used as an upper stage on Atlas, Thor, Thorad and Titan IIIB rockets, and considered for others including the Space Shuttle and Atlas V. A total of 365 Agena rockets were launched between February 28, 1959 and February 1987, when the last Agena D was launched.

The historian William Rees said, in his " Historical Atlas of Wales ": ( published 1959 )

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From 1959 until he moved to the U. S. in 1967, Good held government-funded positions and from 1964 a senior research fellowship at Trinity College, Oxford, and the Atlas Computer Laboratory, where he continued his interests in computing, statistics and chess.

* Cecil Boyd-Rochfort – Alcazar ( 1934 ), Black Devil ( 1935 ), Osborne ( 1954 ), Atlas ( 1956 ), Agreement ( 1958, 1959 ), Raise You Ten ( 1963 )

* 1959: Thiokol Huntsville produces CASTOR strap-on booster rocket, used on the Atlas rocket.

An alternative classification is maintained by West Point ; in their Atlas of American Wars ( Esposito, 1959 ), the Siege of Petersburg ends with the Union assault and breakthrough of April 2.

After an Atlas Comics retrenchment in 1957 — during which the company mixed a trove of inventory stories by Wildey and many others with new material for two to three years — Wildey freelanced on a small number of standalone anthology stories for two other publishers: Harvey Comics, in the science fiction / fantasy titles Alarming Tales # 3-5 ( Jan .- Sept. 1958 ), and Black Cat Mystic # 62 ( March 1958 ), Hi-School Romance # 73 ( March 1958 ) and Warfront # 34 ( Sept. 1958 ); and DC Comics, in Tales of the Unexpected # 33 & 35 ( Nov. 1958, March 1959 ), House of Secrets # 17 ( Feb. 1959 ), My Greatest Adventure # 28 & 32 ( Nov. 1958 & June 1959 ), and House of Mystery # 89 ( Aug. 1959 ).

In the 1971 movie Harold and Maude the character Harold, played by Bud Cort, drives two hearses: originally a 1959 Cadillac Superior 3-way ; and then later a custom hearse he makes from a 1971 Jaguar XK-E 4. 2 Series II.

The ceremony was first conducted with the Prince of Wales ( the future Edward VIII ) in 1927, then with King George VI in 1939, and last with his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II in 1959 and 1970.

* Princess Catherine Yurievskaya, the youngest daughter of Alexander II of Russia, lived on Hayling Island for many years and was buried at St Peter's church in 1959.

* The Evansville Purple Aces have won five national championships in the NCAA College Division ( now known as Division II ): 1959, 1960, 1964, 1965 ( 29-0 record ), and 1971.

After World War II, the ethnic Lithuanian population remained stable: 79. 3 % in 1959 to 83. 5 % in 2002.

However, in Bush's manuscript draft of " Memex II " of 1959 ( also published in ), Bush says, " Professional societies will no longer print papers ..." and states that individuals will either order sets of papers to come on tape-complete with photographs and diagrams-or download ' facsimiles ' by telephone.

After World War II, racing recommenced in the 1950s and the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring again became the main venue for the German Grand Prix as part of the Formula One World Championship ( with the exception of 1959, when it was held on the AVUS in Berlin ).

The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman: Studies in the Transmission, Development, and Circumstance of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II until the War with the Thirteen Colonies ( 1959, 2004 ).

* 1959 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.

* C-124 Globemaster II from 1959 – 62

The Blue Steel II was cancelled in December 1959 and the British cabinet had decided in February 1960 to cancel the Blue Streak.

After World War II, a small number of technically able sopranos, the most notable of whom were first Maria Callas ( with performances from 1952 and especially those at La Scala and Berlin in 1954 / 55 under Herbert von Karajan ) and then Dame Joan Sutherland ( with her 1959 performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 1959, which were repeated in 1960 ), revived the opera in all of its original tragic glory.

During World War II, Szczerbiec was evacuated to Canada and did not return to Kraków until 1959.

An extensive system of canals and locks, known as the Saint Lawrence Seaway, was officially opened on 26 June 1959 by Queen Elizabeth II ( representing Canada ) and President Dwight D. Eisenhower ( representing the United States ).

Further, though neither was ever used for their intended purpose, Hatley Castle in British Columbia was purchased in 1940 by King George VI in Right of Canada to use as his home during the course of World War II, and the Emergency Government Headquarters, built in 1959 at CFS Carp and decommissioned in 1994, included a residential apartment for the sovereign or governor general in the case of a nuclear attack on Ottawa.

Most coal operations left Wilkes-Barre by the end of World War II, and the 1959 Knox Mine Disaster marked the end of King Coal's heyday.

Curtis ' comedies include Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), Sex and the Single Girl ( 1964 ) and The Great Race ( 1965 ), and his dramas included playing the slave Antoninus in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus ( 1960 ) co-starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, The Outsider ( 1961 ), the true story of WW II veteran Ira Hayes, and The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), in which he played the self-confessed murderer of the film's title, Albert DeSalvo.

* Jagdgeschwader 71 " Richthofen " ( from 6 June 1959 )— the first jet fighter unit established by the post-World War II German Bundeswehr (" federal defence force "); its founding commander was the most successful air ace in history, Erich Hartmann.

The house was Grade I listed in 1956, and the head gardener's cottage on the junction of Swakeleys Road and The Avenue was Grade II listed in 1959.

He previously served as Minister of Economic Affairs from September 2, 1952 until May 19, 1959 in the Cabinets Drees III, IV and Beel II.

Turkey production went into sharp decline following World War II, and ended completely by 1959.

Real growth in the area came after World War II with the construction of numerous subdivisions, eventually leading to the incorporation of Half Moon Bay in 1959.

While Hialeah was once envisioned as a playground for the elite, Cuban exiles, fleeing Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution as well as World War II Veterans and city planners transformed the city into a working-class community.

To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.

Between 1950 and 1960, van Vogt produced collections, notable fixups such as: The Mixed Men ( 1952 ) and The War Against the Rull ( 1959 ), and the two " Clane " novels, Empire of the Atom ( 1957 ) and The Wizard of Linn ( 1962 ), which were inspired ( like Asimov's Foundation series ) by the fall of the Roman Empire, specifically Claudius.

These include games in in 1959 and 1966, East Africa ( then mostly Kenya, and held in Nairobi ), and an unofficial game against Ceylon ( future Sri Lanka ) in 1950.

Some of the most critically acclaimed drama films in Asian cinema were produced during the 1950s, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ) and Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).

Disney continued making animated films, notably ; Cinderella ( 1950 ), Peter Pan ( 1953 ), Lady and the Tramp ( 1955 ), and Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ).

Many of the most critically acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during this decade, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and The Music Room ( 1958 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ) and Sansho the Bailiff ( 1954 ), Raj Kapoor's Awaara ( 1951 ), Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds ( 1955 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Throne of Blood ( 1957 ).

A major discovery for Fellini after his Italian neorealism period ( 1950 – 1959 ) was the work of Carl Jung.

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This was followed by the Kunstpreis of the Bayrische Akademie der Schönen Künste ( 1950 ), the Arnold Schönberg Medal of the IGNM ( 1954 ), the Große Kunstpreis of the Land Nordrhein-Westfalen ( 1957 ), as well as the Ludwig Spohr Award of the city of Braunschweig, the Schwabing Kunstpreis ( 1961 ) and the Bavarian Medal of Merit ( 1959 ).

The rest of the post-September 1950 cartoons by Famous Studios that were released prior to April 1, 1962 ( except some special releases ) were sold to Harvey Comics, along with all rights to Famous ' characters Casper the Friendly Ghost, Little Audrey, Herman and Katnip, et al., in 1958, which were retitled " Harveytoons " for television distribution after 1959 ( beginning with their exposure on Matty's Funday Funnies ).

On 1950, Venezuela was the world's 4th largest wealthiest nation per capita However, from 1958 / 1959 onward, Romulo Betancourt ( president from 1959 to 1964 ) inherited an enormous internal and external debt caused by rampant public spending during the dictatorship.

Category: British bomber aircraft 1950 – 1959

The 1950s or The Fifties was the decade that began on January 1, 1950 and ended on December 31, 1959.

1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959

* Secretary: Alcide De Gasperi ( 1944 – 1946 ), Attilio Piccioni ( 1946 – 1949 ), Giuseppe Cappi ( 1949 ), Paolo Emilio Taviani ( 1949 – 1950 ), Guido Gonella ( 1950 – 1953 ), Alcide De Gasperi ( 1953 – 1954 ), Amintore Fanfani ( 1954 – 1959 ), Aldo Moro ( 1959 – 1964 ), Mariano Rumor ( 1964 – 1969 ), Flaminio Piccoli ( 1969 ), Arnaldo Forlani ( 1969 – 1973 ), Amintore Fanfani ( 1973 – 1975 ), Benigno Zaccagnini ( 1975 – 1980 ), Flaminio Piccoli ( 1980 – 1982 ), Ciriaco De Mita ( 1982 – 1989 ), Arnaldo Forlani ( 1989 – 1992 ), Mino Martinazzoli ( 1992 – 1994 )

In a 1950 lecture he formulated the famous saying Language speaks, later published in the 1959 essays collection Unterwegs zur Sprache, and collected in the 1971 English book Poetry, Language, Thought.

The series You Asked For It ( 1950 – 1959 ), in which viewer requests dictated content, was an antecedent of today's audience-participation reality TV elements, in which viewers cast votes to help determine the course of events.

His books of poetry include Poems 1913 and 1914 ( 1914 ); Poems Translated from the French ( 1914 ); Three Poems ( 1916 ); The Barn ( 1916 ); The Silver Bird of Herndyke Mill ; Stane Street ; The Gods of the World Beneath, ( 1916 ); The Harbingers ( 1916 ); Pastorals ( 1916 ); The Waggoner and Other Poems ( 1920 ); The Shepherd, and Other Poems of Peace and War ( 1922 ); Old Homes ( 1922 ); To Nature: New Poems ( 1923 ); Dead Letters ( 1923 ); Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative ( 1925 ); Japanese Garland ( 1928 ); Retreat ( 1928 ); Winter Nights: A Reminiscence ( 1928 ); Near and Far: New Poems ( 1929 ); A Summer's Fancy ( 1930 ); To Themis: Poems on Famous Trials ( 1931 ); Constantia and Francis: An Autumn Evening, ( 1931 ); Halfway House: A Miscellany of New Poems, ( 1932 ); Choice or Chance: New Poems ( 1934 ); Verses: To H. R. H. The Duke of Windsor, ( 1936 ); An Elegy and Other Poems ( 1937 ); On Several Occasions ( 1938 ); Poems, 1930-1940 ( 1940 ); Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ); After the Bombing, and Other Short Poems ( 1949 ); Eastward: A Selection of Verses Original and Translated ( 1950 ); Records of Friendship ( 1950 ); A Hong Kong House ( 1959 ); Poems on Japan ( 1967 ).