* John Joseph Ford ( 1907 – 1982 ), American jurist who served on Los Angeles County Courts ( 1943 – 59 ) and California Second District Court of Appeal ( 1959 – 77 ); elevated to Presiding Justice in 1966

* 1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.

In 1958 the Army felt that existing knowledge was sufficient for work on a guided missile with a HEAT warhead to begin, and in June 1959 Sperry and Ford Aeronutronic were asked for designs to fill the shorter range role.

The first published report of a female with a 45, X karyotype was in 1959 by Dr. Charles Ford and colleagues in Harwell, Oxfordshire and Guy's Hospital in London.

* Ford Squire, a Ford Motor Company vehicle built and marketed for the United Kingdom from 1955 through 1959, branded as the Ford Escort

McNamara was a force behind the wildly popular Ford Falcon sedan, introduced in the fall of 1959 — a small, simple and inexpensive-to-produce counter to the large, expensive vehicles prominent in the late 1950s.

A production of " An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein " was produced by a Hofstra University theater group called, " The Spectrum Players " which was founded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1959.

The first truck powered by gas was a 1923 Ford pickup purchased in 1959.

On May 21, 1959, he guest starred with Charlie McCarthy on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

The Ford Motor Company opened a commercial vehicle component factory at Langley Airfield in 1949, and then bought the entire ex-Hawker site in 1959.

His entry into politics was as a California State Assemblyman from 1953 to 1959, and he would go on to serve as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

She appeared on April 9, 1959, on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Cosworth has had a long relationship with Ford Motor Company, which began when Cosworth started manufacturing racing engines in 1959.

GM eliminated the hardtop wagon from its lineup in 1959, and AMC and Ford exited the field beginning with their 1960 and 1961 vehicles, leaving Chrysler and Dodge with the body style through the 1964 model year.

When production as an Anglia ceased in 1953, it continued as the extremely basic Ford Popular until 1959.

The Edsel is an automobile that was manufactured by the Ford Motor Company during the 1958, 1959, and 1960 model years.

Ford announced the end of the Edsel program on Thursday, November 19, 1959.

" Ford issued a statement that it would distribute coupons to customers who purchased 1960 models ( and carryover 1959 models ) prior to the announcement, valued at $ 300 to $ 400 toward the purchase of new Ford products to offset the decreased values.

* Francis Ford ( 1881 – 1959 ), actor, writer and director

She guest starred in 1959 on The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford on NBC.

The UK followed with similar weapons, notably the RAF's Bristol Bloodhound in 1958, and the Army's English Electric Thunderbird in 1959.

* Thunderbird ( 1959 ) – surface-to-air missile

*" Rodney On The Roq " 1983 compilation track " Black And White Thunderbird " original song by the Delicates 1959.

* 1959 – 1960 optional on Ford Thunderbird

Petty drove a 1959 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 (# 42 ), Beauchamp a 1959 Ford Thunderbird (# 73 ) and Weatherly a 1959 Chevrolet (# 48 ), all coupés.

In 1959, he was hired as the head professional at Thunderbird Country Club in Palm Springs, California, where he served for over a decade, and finally took a club job in the Houston area.

Founded as the Palm Springs Golf Classic in 1960, the tournament evolved from the Thunderbird Invitational that was held in Palm Springs from 1954 to 1959.

In 1959, the first race comprised the Convertible series, while the second comprised the Grand National series.

* 1959 DeSoto Firesweep Convertible in the 1991 film Mystery Date.

* 1959 DeSoto Fireflite Convertible in the 1959 film Pillow Talk ( Rock Hudson's car )

Although the concept of consilience in Whewell's sense was widely discussed by philosophers of science, the term was unfamiliar to the broader public until the end of the 20th century, when it was revived in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book by the humanist biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the culture gap between the sciences and the humanities that was the subject of C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution ( 1959 ).

Although bacteriophages were first described in 1927, it was only in 1959 that Sinshemer working with phage Phi X 174 showed that they could possess single stranded DNA genomes.

Although the show returned for the 1958 – 1959 season ( 5: 30 to 6: 00 pm ET ), these programs were repeats from the first two seasons, re-cut into a half-hour format.

Although the two scoreboards possessed some superficial resemblances, they differed in many details, and the Yankee Stadium scoreboard remained at Yankee Stadium until 1959 when it was replaced, two years after a different Ballantine scoreboard was installed at Shibe.

Although EMKA, Ltd. ( now part of Universal Television ) had acquired Paramount's older films in 1959, Animal Crackers evidently was regarded as a mess best left untouched.

" Although Pampers were conceptualized in 1959, the diapers themselves were not launched into the market until 1961.

Although " The Road to the South " was formally implemented, in practice its implementation was postponed to 1959.

Although the county harvested $ 60, 000 in crops in 1959, it was the last year in which crops were reported.

Although Sleeping Beauty was the second-highest grossing film of 1959 ( just behind Ben-Hur ), the film went over budget costing 6 million dollars and the film failed to make back its expenditure ..

Although his foremost biographer, Ramón Corral, had stated that Cajemé was born in 1837 ( Corral, 1959 ), and this date had been used by others since then.

Although the White Paper entitled " Economic Development " was first introduced in 1958 in de Valera's last government, its main recommendations formed the basis for the First Programme for Economic Expansion, which was adopted by Lemass as government policy upon his ascension in 1959.

Although intended as a one-off story focusing on Superboy, the Legion proved so popular that it returned for an encore in Adventure Comics # 267 ( December 1959 ).

Although he disliked military discipline, Mesrine enjoyed action and was decorated with the Cross of Military Valour by General Charles de Gaulle before leaving the army in 1959.

Although not achieved during his lifetime, the 1959 creation of the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo was a vindication of this passion for art and a demonstration of the foresight which benefits his countrymen and others.

Although Dole hadn't lived regularly in North Carolina since 1959 and had been a resident of the Washington area for most of the time since the mid-1960s, the state and national Republican establishment quickly cleared the field for her.

Although he wrote twelve works of fiction, Braine is chiefly remembered today for his first novel, Room at the Top ( 1957 ), which was also turned into a successful film in 1959, with Laurence Harvey starring as Joe Lampton.

Although it lacks the political satire and Broadway polish of the 1959 version, this film gives a fairly accurate portrayal of the various Dogpatch characters up until that time.

Although 1959 proved his breakout season, he was ineligible for the Rookie of the Year Award because of his previous sparse experience.

Although it is not yet classified as a separate eating disorder, it was first described in 1959 by psychiatrist and researcher Albert Stunkard as " Night Eating Syndrome " ( NES ), and the term " Binge Eating Disorder " was coined to describe the same binging-type eating behavior without the exclusive nocturnal component.

Although Huddersfield won the game 1 – 0, Shankly accepted the Liverpool offer and resigned his position as Huddersfield manager at a board meeting on 1 December 1959.

Although the 1857 and 1959 legislation outlawed the publication, retail and trafficking of certain writings and images, regarded as pornographic, and would order the destruction of shop and warehouse stock meant for sale, the private possession of and viewing of pornography has not been prosecuted until recent times.

Although sulfur sludge was found, the amount and quality of the ore was never good enough to make the venture profitable and the project was abandoned in 1959.

Although it was first synthesized in 1948, its MAOI action was not discovered until 1959.

Although outspoken against the Tory Government, Howe refused to join the criticism when Diefenbaker's Cabinet cancelled the Avro Arrow in February 1959.