The ITU added him to its roster of great inventors of electricity in 1955.

From 1955 onwards, the works of directors of the so-called Polish Film School had a great influence on the contemporary trends such as French New Wave, Italian neorealism or even late Classical Hollywood cinema.

The day after their doubleheader loss, the Pirates traveled to New York's Polo Grounds, where Roberto, having just achieved some measure of vindication against the team that let him get away, now had a chance to compete against his two great baseball heroes, both his boyhood idol Monte Irvin and his recently acquired friend and mentor ( not to mention teammate, with the 1954-55 Caribbean Champion Santurce Crabbers ), Willie Mays, both of whom now patrolled the outfield of the defending World Champion New York Giants, with whom the Pirates now began a four-game series, hoping to pick up their first win of 1955.

Although it was not a great success at the time – selling fewer than 3, 000 copies in the United States during 1955 before going out of print – it soon went on to become a best-seller, and by the early 1960s was required reading in many schools and colleges ; the novel is currently renowned for being a popular choice of study for GCSE English Literature courses in the United Kingdom.

Édith Piaf achieved great acclaim at the Olympia giving several series of recitals from January 1955 until October 1962.

Saadat Hassan Manto ( 1912 – 1955 ), a prominent writer of short stories of the South Asia, produced great literature out of the events relating to the India-Pakistan independence.

Houston Grand Opera has been home to many of the great singers, conductors, directors, and designers since its inception in 1955.

Robert B. Crosby, the Republican Governor of Nebraska from 1954 to 1955, was John Powers ' great grandson.

Promoter and former tennis great Jack Kramer tried unsuccessfully to sign the " Whiz Kids " ( Lew Hoad and Rosewall ) to professional contracts in late 1955.

The show took a great drop in ratings after orchestra bandleader Archie Bleyer left in the 1954 – 1955 season, but rebounded as the scouts continued to discover more talent.

He also acted Rudolf von Habsburg in Grillparzer's König Ottokars Glück und Ende at the great reopening of the Burgtheater on 15 October 1955.

He had a continuing role as Cadet Eric Rattison, the great rival of the " Polaris Unit " manned by the series ' heroes, in Tom Corbett, Space Cadet from 1950 to 1955.

His delayed American debut in 1955 playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in Philadelphia with Eugene Ormandy was a great success.

Courtney received a bachelor's degree from Fordham University in 1955, and since 1994, the ( autographed ) varsity jacket from his college track days hangs in a display case along with similar memorabilia from other great Fordham athletes, such as Vince Lombardi.

Later on, faced with a united Moroccan demand for the sultan ’ s return, on a great scale, rising violence in Morocco, and the deteriorating situation in Algeria, Mohammed V was returned from exile on November 16, 1955, and again recognized as Sultan.

The producer of the series, Edward J. Montagne, had had great success with the top-rated series The Phil Silvers Show ( 1955 – 1959 ), a military comedy with an opportunistic non-commissioned officer and his loyal platoon constantly putting something over on the base commander.

From 1950 until 1955, Whitley Bay Athletic were members of the Northern Alliance League, in which the club had a great run of success.

Nashua won his famous match race with the great thoroughbred Swaps who had defeated him in the 1955 Kentucky Derby.

Regardless, Calhoun first broke into the sport in 1955 ; and he began competing for local promoter ( and the inaugural National Wrestling Alliance World Champion ) Orville Brown, who recognized how a behemoth of his size could become a major box office attraction for a sport that was in great need of added popularity.

Many of Van Delden's compositions form an expression of his deeply felt social concern, such as the orchestral work In Memoriam ( 1953 ), which was written in the aftermath of the great flood disaster of 1953 in the Netherlands, Belgium and England, the oratorio The Bird of Freedom ( 1955 ), which is an emotional cry against slavery, the radiophonic oratorio Icarus ( 1962 ), which questions the usefulness of space travel, or Canto della guerra ( after Erasmus, 1967 ; for chorus and orchestra ), which is a strong condemnation of war.

The Davis Sisters attracted two great singers in their most fruitful periods to help fill out their sound: Imogene Green, who possessed a husky alto of great sensuous beauty and the phenomenal Jackie Verdell who replaced Green in 1955.

He was a utility infielder with a great team, the 1955 World Series champion Brooklyn Dodgers, and with the 1962 New York Mets, who lost a record 120 games.

In the aftermath of the Le Mans disaster of 1955, Fitch has devoted a great deal of effort to the task of increasing the safety of motorsports and driving in general, resulting in his company, Impact Attenuation Inc .. His innovations are characterized not only by their effectiveness, but also by their real-world practicality, as affordable and easily installed and maintained solutions.

The official opening of the Canso Causeway took place on August 13, 1955 when several thousand people attended ceremonies which included a gala parade of what was meant to be 100 bagpipers heralding Cape Breton's road connection to the North American mainland, however, the 100th bagpiper refused to pipe.

* 1955: water pipe sealed Kunu, India

The rink has had a pipe organ for most of its history ; since 1955 it has been a Wurlitzer model with four manuals, moved to the rink from its previous home at Portland's Broadway Theatre, where it had been installed in 1926.

It was first discovered in 1955 by DuPont researcher Jim White who saw polyethylene fluff coming out of a pipe in a DuPont experimental lab.

One part of the river was put into a pipe in 1926, and the rest in 1955.

He emigrated to the United States in 1955, carrying his few possessions and a set of bagpipes ( from his time in a pipe band ).

The Abbey's organ, located in the North Transept was installed in 1858 by Gray & Davison, and completely rebuilt in 1955 by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd, though that restoration's action failed by 1987 and had to be replaced.

It was hit hard by the floods of 1955, to the point where " the rising water floated the organ up toward the altar ".

In the late 1940s Fischinger invented the Lumigraph ( patented in 1955 ) which others have called a type of color organ.

From 1952 to 1955 he studied organ, composition, and choral conducting at the Stuttgart College of Music.

* Gilgamesch, Oratorical Music Drama for soloists, narrator, mixed chorus, children's chorus, orchestra and organ ( 1954 – 1955, revised 1967 – 1968 )

As late as the April 30, 1955, 9th wedding anniversary edition of the Peace Mission organ the New Day Magazine, listed no less than 30 Peace Mission owned and friendly businesses that bought add space to help cover the cost of printing it.

The cathedral was opened again in 1955, and a new, smaller organ was installed at a different location in 1969.

After an extended transition during which segments of the former CDSA came within the purview of the People ’ s Liberation Army, it was fully re-established as an organ directly under the Communist Party Central Committee in 1955, now with the new name Central Investigation Department ( CID ).

Inside this restaurant is " Big Bertha ", an organ built in Paris and used from 1909 to 1955 in a Grand Rapids, Michigan amusement park called Ramona Park.

By 1951 they were manufacturing electric organs and in 1955 they gained the exclusive licensing rights to make Lowrey organs and Leslie organ speakers for the UK.

The opening ceremony in 1955 featured that organ, including a piece of music that was commissioned for the event, Aaron Copland's Canticle of Freedom.

The radio emission of a planet was first detected in 1955, when Burke and Franklin ( 1955 ) identified the origin of interference-like radio noise on their records at about 15 meters wave length as emission from Jupiter.

The international unit ( u. ), adopted to make possible the comparison of results from different laboratories ( Mussett and Perry, 1955 ), has been defined as the amount of activity present in 13.5 mg of the International Standard Preparation.

Huff, who received a salary of $109 a week from the loan association from October of 1955 until September of this year, said that his private practice was not lucrative.

* 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.

He also trained teachers to teach his work from 1930 until his death in 1955.

* The Enns Power Network Computer – an analog computer for the analysis of electric power systems ( advertisement from 1955 )

The Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man also after a line in " On Wenlock Edge " and Arthur C. Clarke's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman's More Poems.

In 1955 the Lions toured South Africa and left with another imposing record, one draw and 19 wins from the 25 fixtures.

Walsh graduated from San Jose State with a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1955.

* Babe Ruth Field is a ballpark in Ventura, California, that was located at the Ventura County Fairgrounds and was used as a minor-league park from 1948 to 1955.

The Branch Davidians ( also known as " The Branch ") are a Protestant sect that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Davidian Seventh Day Adventists (" Davidians "), a reform movement that began within the Seventh-day Adventist Church (" Adventists ") around 1930.

The Soviet journalist Yevgenia Ginzburg was a former long-term political prisoner who spent time in the Soviet prisons, Gulag camps and settlements from 1938 to 1955.

Cape Breton Island is joined to the mainland by the Canso Causeway, which was completed in 1955, enabling direct road and rail traffic to and from the island, but requiring marine traffic to pass through the Canso Canal at the eastern end of the causeway.

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

Coat of arms of the Earl Attlee | Earls Attlee He retired from the Commons and was elevated to the peerage to take his seat in the House of Lords as Earl Attlee and Viscount Prestwood on 16 December 1955.

He worked at White Sands Missile Range in the early 1950s, and taught astronomy at New Mexico State University from 1955 until his retirement in 1973.

Due to engine knocking ( detonation ), the compression ratio in a gasoline or petrol-powered engine will usually not be much higher than 10: 1, although some production automotive engines built for high-performance from 1955 – 1972 had compression ratios as high as 13. 0: 1, which could run safely on the high-octane leaded gasoline then available.

Malenkov spoke twice to the plenum, but it failed to alter his position, and on 8 March 1955 he was forced to resign from his post as Chairman of the Council of Ministers ; he was succeeded by Nikolai Bulganin, a protege of Khrushchev dating back to the 1930s.

The Royal Netherlands Navy also used the rank of commandeur from the end of the 16th century for a variety of temporary positions, until it became a conventional permanent rank in 1955.

In addition to recording, Atkins became a design consultant for Gretsch, who manufactured a popular Chet Atkins line of electric guitars from 1955 – 1980.

During his recovery from a heart attack late in 1955, he huddled with his closest advisors to evaluate the GOP's potential candidates ; the group, in addition to his doctor, concluded a second term was well advised, and he announced in February 1956 he would run again.