The Lincoln Cosmopolitan Capri from 1950 to 1951 ; the Lincoln Capri from 1952 to 1959 ; the Mercury Comet Capri in 1966 – 1967 ; and three different generations of Mercury Capris from 1970 to 1994.

For the first time, the names Lincoln and Continental would be paired together outside the Mark Series ; along with replacing the Continental Mark V, the 1961 Continental replaced the Lincoln Capri and Premiere, consolidating Lincoln into a single product line.

Those most closely related to the Fairmont included the 1980 – 1982 Ford Thunderbird, the 1981 – 1982 Ford Granada, the 1979 – 1993 Ford Mustang ( and 1979 – 1986 Mercury Capri ), and the 1982 – 1987 Lincoln Continental.

American Chuck Stevenson won the touring car class in a Lincoln Capri.

The original rag-tag team won the last two stages, and finished third in class ( a Lincoln Capri won the Large Stock Class ).

It was released as a model kit and a toy, and in a much more subdued form its headlight and tailfin motifs would appear on production Lincolns for 1956 and 1957, such as the Lincoln Premiere and Lincoln Capri.

The origin of the name after the Italian island of Capri, dates back to the Lincoln Capri of the 1950s.

During this period, a version of the Ford Mustang was sold through Lincoln / Mercury dealers as the Mercury Capri, giving Mercury a pony car for the first time since the Mercury Cougar was upsized in 1974 to complement the Ford Thunderbird.

* 1958 – 1959 Lincoln Capri

** Lincoln Capri, a model from the 1950s

During the scenes of Nicky and Tacy pulling their trailer in the mountains, their 1953 Mercury Monterey convertible is replaced with a larger but similar appearing 1953 Lincoln Capri convertible.

Vendors there include: Newton Pizza House, Games and Gizmos ( going out of business ), Walnut Market, 51 Lincoln, Baker's Best ( recently out of business ), Green Planet Kids, Bread & Chocolate ( in the location of the former Ice Cream Works and Citrio and Bread & Lily ), Kim's Nail Salon, Lincoln Street Coffee, Ohara's Food and Spirits, Salon Capri, and others as well.

Lincoln Tunnel Helix and toll plaza circa 1955, with the south tube under constructionWith the creation of the Interstate Highway System in 1956, the approach to the Lincoln Tunnel was planned to become an Interstate highway along with present-day Route 3, which itself was not included in the Interstate Highway System because New Jersey thought it would be too expensive to bring it up to Interstate Highway standards.

The Totowa Fire Department ( TBFD ) is an entirely volunteer fire department and was established in April, 1908 The TBFD consists of four " companies ," which include ; Volunteer Fire Company # 1 ( 1908 ), Lincoln Fire Company ( 1908 ), Riverview Fire Company # 3 ( 1925 ), and Fire Rescue Company # 4 ( 1955 ).

Lincoln Village was started in 1955 as a planned community by a real estate subsidiary of Nationwide Insurance.

Despite the new 1955 / 56 design, Cadillac still led the luxury market, followed by Lincoln, Packard and Imperial.

In 1955, the Anglican Church placed at the site of Little Hugh's former shrine at Lincoln Cathedral a plaque bearing these words:

* April 21, 1955: Lincoln Square designated for urban renewal.

Marian Anderson's historic 1955 debut was followed by the introduction of a whole generation of outstanding African-American artists led by Leontyne Price ( who inaugurated the new house in Lincoln Center ), Reri Grist, Grace Bumbry, Shirley Verrett, George Shirley, Robert McFerrin, and others.

* August 1955 Lincoln Laboratory Memorandum 6M-3843The Cryotron-A Superconductive Computer Component

The 1955 Lincoln cent is an example.

* Randall, James G. Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure ( 1955 ).

Sallen and E. L. Key of MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1955.

This was a George Barris customised 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car from the American television series Batman and the Corgi model featured rocket launchers, pulsating red plastic ' flames ' from the engine exhaust, an operational die-cast metal chain cutting blade in the nose of the car and models of ' Batman ' and the boy-wonder ' Robin ' sitting in the seats.

* In 1955, producer Wilber T. Blume, a USC Cinema instructor at the time, received an Academy Award for best live action short film for a film he created entitled The Face of Lincoln.

However, in 1955, the company decided to spin Imperial off as its own make and division to better compete with its rivals, Lincoln and Cadillac.

The 1955 song Hot Rod Lincoln celebrates the long steep and already fairly straight section up Grapevine Canyon.

* 98th Air Refueling Squadron ( 7 November 1955 – 31 January 1956 ) ( KC-97 )( TDY From Lincoln AFB, Nebraska )

1955 Lincoln Futura Concept

In 1955 Chrysler spun off the Imperial as its own separate marque in an attempt to compete directly with the Cadillac and Lincoln luxury marques offered by General Motors and Ford, respectively, rather than the traditional Chrysler competitors Buick, Mercury, and Oldsmobile.

During the 1980s and 1990s, a volume of Kees ’ s correspondence appeared, Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation: Letters, 1935 – 1955 ( Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986 ) and the poets Dana Gioia and James Reidel reclaimed and drew attention to Kees ’ s fiction, nonfiction, and visual art.

In 1955, Charlie Ryan wrote and performed a popular song known as " Hot Rod Lincoln ", about a kid who races his souped-up Lincoln against a Cadillac up the Grapevine Hill.

One example of this is the 1955 doubled die Lincoln Wheat cent.

Medress was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School, where in 1955 he joined a doo-wop group called the Linc-Tones, which also included Neil Sedaka.

Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

Lincoln successfully led his country through its greatest constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization.

On foreign and military policy, Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican – American War, which he attributed to President Polk's desire for " military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood ".

Lincoln in his late 30s – photo taken by one of Lincoln's law students around 1846

The 1858 senate campaign featured the seven Lincoln – Douglas debates of 1858, the most famous political debates in American history.

President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865

* National Endowment for the Humanities Spotlight – Abraham Lincoln

* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

* 1930 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer-songwriter and actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War ( d. 1926 )

* 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.

* 1959 – The Lincoln Memorial design on the U. S. penny goes into circulation.

* 1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.

* 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.

* 1865 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.

* 1861 – President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.

Eddie Milne at Blyth ( Northumberland ) and Dick Taverne in Lincoln were both victims of such intrigues during the 1970s, but in both cases there was enough of a local outcry by party members – and the electorate – for them to fight and win their seats as independent candidates against the official Labour candidates.

He founded the short lived Campaign for Social Democracy ( CFSD ) thereafter, and wrote a book about events surrounding the by-election called The Future of the Left – Lincoln and After ( 1972 ).

* 1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.

* 1937 – The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.

* 1861 – Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.

* 1818 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States ( d. 1882 )

Frank Lloyd Wright ( born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959 ) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1, 000 structures and completed 500 works.