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The series of speed increases — later in 1955, in 1956, in 1957, in 1958, in 1959 — peaked on 31 December 1964 at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia when he reached ; he remains the world's most prolific breaker of water speed records.
The potential of very small machines was appreciated before the technology existed that could make them — see, for example, Richard Feynman's famous 1959 lecture There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.
Eysenck, along with another contemporary in trait psychology named J. P. Guilford ( 1959 ), believed that the resultant trait factors obtained from factor analysis should be statistically independent of one another — that is, the factors should be arranged ( rotated ) so that they are uncorrelated or orthogonal ( at right angles ) to one another.
When Pumpsie Green became the first black player on the Boston Red Sox in 1959 — the last major league team to integrate its team — Williams openly welcomed Green.
* Herbert Butterfield-Historian ; Master of Peterhouse ( 1955 – 1968 ), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge ( 1959 – 1961 ), and Regius Professor of Modern History ( 1963 — 1968 )
Kaunda's political party — the United National Independence Party ( UNIP )-- was founded in 1959 and was in power under Kaunda's leadership from 1964 to 1991.
With the creation of the ALBA, Fidel Castro — leader of Cuba since 1959 — and Hugo Chávez reaffirmed their opposition to the perceived imperialism of the United States.
249 — composed in 1958, 1959, 1961, and 1972 respectively — which are symphonic works for school and college wind bands.
Simon worked enthusiastically on the project for many years and described it as " a New York Puerto Rican story based on events that happened in 1959 — events that I remembered.
* French — Baival, C., Paul Ternoise, and Albert Verse: Pierrot's Choice ( 1950 ); Marceau, Marcel: Pierrot of Montmartre ( 1952 ; music by Joseph Kosma ); The Mime Sime: The Fantasies of Pierrot ( 2007 ); Prévert, Jacques: Baptiste ( 1959 ; choreography by Jean-Louis Barrault ).
However, the first modern three point seat belt ( the so-called CIR-Griswold restraint ) used in most consumer vehicles today was patented in 1955 ( US Patent 2, 710, 649 ) by the Americans Roger W. Griswold and Hugh DeHaven, and developed to its modern form by Nils Bohlin for Swedish manufacturer Volvo — who introduced it in 1959 as standard equipment.
The song is a recounting of " The Day the Music Died " — the 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper ( Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr .)— and the aftermath.
His essays were published in two collections, Epoch and Artist ( Faber, 1959 ) and The Dying Gaul — another posthumous volume edited by a close friend and published by Faber in 1978.
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* American singer-songwriter, Brenda Lee, released the rockabilly song " Let's Jump The Broomstick " on Decca Records in 1959.
In 1959 NNS launched its first nuclear-powered submarine, Shark as well as the ballistic missile submarine Robert E. Lee.
* 1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.
By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, and the breaking of the payola scandal ( which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs ), gave a sense that the initial rock and roll era had come to an end.
Lloyd Price, who in 1952 had a # 1 hit with " Lawdy Miss Clawdy " regained predominance with a version of " Stagger Lee " at # 1 and " Personality " at # 5 for in 1959.
Singaporean politics have been dominated by the People's Action Party ( PAP ) since the 1959 general election when Lee Kuan Yew became Singapore's first prime minister ( Singapore was then a self-governing state within the British Empire ).
In April 1959, Lee's parents decided to send him to the United States to stay with his older sister, Agnes Lee ( 李秋鳳 ), who was already living with family friends in San Francisco.
Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include Elihu Thomson ( AIEE, 1889 – 1890 ), Alexander Graham Bell ( AIEE, 1891 – 1892 ), Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( AIEE, 1901 – 1902 ), Lee De Forest ( IRE, 1930 ), Frederick E. Terman ( IRE, 1941 ), William R. Hewlett ( IRE, 1954 ), Ernst Weber ( IRE, 1959 ; IEEE, 1963 ), and Ivan Getting ( IEEE, 1978 ).
The result was successful for the PAP under Lee Kuan Yew's control who won the 1959 election, and has held power ever since.
Lee also served as mayor of Price from 1935 to 1947, and later as mayor of Salt Lake City, from 1959 to 1971.
This semi-documentary looking movie was produced by Frederick Wiseman, directed by Shirley Clarke and adapted by her and Carl Lee from the 1959 novel The Cool World by Warren Miller.
Lee Haney ( born November 11, 1959 in Spartanburg, South Carolina ) is a former American IFBB professional bodybuilder.
During the 1980s, notable players followed in the footsteps of players such as Juan " Pachin " Vicens ( Named Greatest Basketball Player in the World at the Basketball World Championship, held in Santiago, Chile, 1959 ) and Butch Lee, the first Puerto Rican and BSN player to enter the NBA.
It was picked up by ABC Records and from 1957 to 1959 Price recorded a series of national hits on ABC Records that were successful adaptations of the New Orleans sound, such as " Stagger Lee ", " Personality ", which reached # 2, and the # 3 hit " I'm Gonna Get Married ".
Ryan Lee Stiles ( born April 22, 1959 ) is an American actor, comedian, director, and voice actor whose work is often associated with improvisational comedy.
** Philip Lee Tau Sang 李道生 ( died 1959 ), Member of the Advisory Council of North Borneo ( now the state of Sabah, 1947 – 1950 ), Legislative Council of North Borneo ( 1950 – 1958 ) and Executive Council of North Borneo ( 1950 – 1953, 1956 – 1957 )
George Nader played Queen in The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen ( 1958 – 1959 ), but he was replaced with Lee Philips in the final episodes.
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