Examples of this style of film include It's a Wonderful World ( 1939 ), The Shop Around the Corner ( 1940 ), Sabrina ( 1954 ), Annie Hall ( 1977 ), When Harry Met Sally ... ( 1989 ), Pretty Woman ( 1990 ), and Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ).

* 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release " Rock Around the Clock ", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.

In terms of its wide cultural impact across society in the US and elsewhere, Bill Haley's " Rock Around the Clock ", recorded in April 1954 but not a commercial success until the following year, is generally recognized as an important milestone, but it was preceded by many recordings from earlier decades in which elements of rock and roll can be clearly discerned.

Three months earlier, on April 12, 1954, Bill Haley & His Comets recorded " Rock Around the Clock ".

This was later shortened to "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock ", though this form is generally only used on releases of the 1954 Bill Haley Decca Records recording ; most other recordings of this song by Haley and others ( including Sonny Dae ) shorten this title further to " Rock Around the Clock ".

In a 2005 retrospective on his uncle Milt Gabler's work ( The Milt Gabler Story ), Billy Crystal identifies Haley's 1954 recording of " Rock Around the Clock " as the single most important song Gabler ever produced.

As Gabler intended, " Rock Around the Clock " was first issued in the spring of 1954 as a B-side to " Thirteen Women ( and Only One Man in Town ).

The most notable of these compilations was the 1955 Decca Records album Rock Around the Clock ( Decca DL 8225 ) which contained most of the tracks Haley recorded as singles for the label in 1954 and 1955.

In March and July 2005, the members of the 1954 – 55 group, now billed as simply The Comets after decades of controversy over the use of the name, made several high-profile concert appearances in New York City and Los Angeles organized by Martin Lewis as part of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of rock and roll, the release of Blackboard Jungle, the 50th anniversary of " Rock Around the Clock " hitting Number 1, and the 80th birthday of Bill Haley.

* "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock "-US # 23 on May 29, 1954 only one week ; UK # 17, in December 1954

In 1954, American Decca released " Rock Around the Clock " by Bill Haley & His Comets.

Around Christmas of 1954, they won first prize in a talent contest singing their rendition of " White Christmas ".

The musical style known in Brazil as " Brazilian rock n ' roll " dates back to a Portuguese-version cover of " Rock Around the Clock " in 1954.

Around 1898 Holden began living with Margaret Steadman ( née Macdonald, 1865 – 1954 ), a nurse and midwife.

He recorded DVD audio commentaries for Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 film ), Animal Farm ( 1954 film ) and Fantasia ( 1940 film ).

* " The Holes Around Mars " ( 1954 )

" The World Around Us " was part of the 1954 Broadway previews and opening, but was dropped during the first week of the Broadway run, replaced by Babe's reprise of " Hey There ".

* James Brown as Jim Carson in " Around the World with Superman " ( 1954 )

The Voyages are frequently adapted into film, from Georges Méliès ' fanciful 1902 film Le Voyage dans la Lune ( aka A Trip to the Moon ), to Walt Disney's 1954 adaptation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, to the 2004 version of Around the World in 80 Days starring Jackie Chan.

Around 1954, the " B type " head appeared, with equal valve angles of 35 degrees on inlet and exhaust.

In terms of its wide cultural impact across society in the US and elsewhere, Bill Haley's " Rock Around the Clock ", recorded in April 1954 but not a commercial success until the following year, is generally recognized as an important milestone, but it was preceded by many recordings from earlier decades in which elements of rock and roll can be clearly discerned.

*" Rock Around the Clock " by Bill Haley and his Comets ( recorded on April 12, 1954 ) was the first number one rock and roll record on the US pop charts.

Around this time, Kusama was hospitalized regularly from overwork, and O ’ Keeffe convinced her own dealer Edith Herbert to purchase several works in order to help Kusama stave off financial hardship.

The hoax was first documented in Thomas F. De Voe's ( 1811-1892 ) 1862 volume The Market Book, as conveyed by his uncle who was Lozier's supposed associate, and was told again in Herbert Asbury's 1934 title All Around The Town.

In 1998, Herbert issued Around the House, which successfully mixed dance beats, sounds generated by everyday kitchen objects, and Siciliano's wry vocals.

Around 1650, Otto von Guericke built a crude electrostatic generator: a sulphur ball that rotated on a shaft.

Around 1160, Hanseatic traders from Lübeck established a trading post on the site of the future city of Riga, which Albrecht von Buxthoeven founded in 1201.

Around the age of thirty Bismarck had an intense friendship with Marie von Thadden, newly married to a friend of his.

Around the turn of the 19th to 20th century, the Slaby-Arco wireless system was developed by Adolf Slaby and Georg von Arco.

( This event is cited in the Haley biographies Sound and Glory by John Haley and John von Hoelle, and Bill Haley by John Swenson and in Still Rockin ' Around The Clock, a memoir by Comets bass player, Marshall Lytle.

The show featured a song that was not theirs: the Albert von Tilzer and Junie McCree song Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey was put into the score because it was popular.

Around 10: 30 p. m., Ludendorff released von Kahr and his associates.

Around 11: 00 p. m., Ritter von Danner, along with fellow officers General Adolf Ritter von Ruith and General Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, compelled von Lossow to repudiate the putsch.

Around March 19, 1800, von Humboldt and Bonpland discovered and captured some electric eels.

Around Monte Rosa, the Vincent family, Josef Zumstein ( 1783 – 1861 ), and Giovanni Gnifetti ( 1801 – 1867 ) did good work during the half century between 1778 and 1842, while in the Eastern Alps the Archduke John ( 1782 – 1850 ), Prince F. J. C. von Schwarzenberg, archbishop of Salzburg ( 1809 – 1885 ), Valentine Stanig ( 1774 – 1847 ), Adolf Schaubach ( 1800 – 1850 ), above all, P. J.

Around this time, von Sternberg introduced Antheil to his patron of the next two decades: Mary Louise Curtis Bok, later the founder of the Curtis Institute of Music.

Around 1049 Count Eberhard von Nellenburg founded a Benedictine monastery which led to the development of a community.

Around this time, Fuller had hoped to prepare a biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, but felt that she could work on it only if she traveled to Europe.

Around the same time it was also explored by the cyberneticist Heinz von Foerster, who used it to propose that memories naturally fade in an exponential manner.

Around 1714 Ferdinand Brokoff began to cooperate with the Austrian architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and moved to Vienna ( while still working for Prague commissions, too ) where he worked on the church of St. Charles Borromei.

Around 1845, von Struve's father withdrew from most management activities at the Pulkovo Observatory and focused on individual research.

* Around 1737, in a letter to Swiss naturalist Albrecht von Haller, Carl Linnaeus wrote:

Around 1860, psychology was finding its scientific foundation mainly in Germany, with the rigorous research of Hermann von Helmholtz ( 1821 – 1894 ), who had trained as a physicist, and of Wilhelm Wundt ( 1832 – 1920 ).

Around 200 of these were then passed on to the British Museum in London, while the remainder were divided among a variety of collections, with the majority being purchased by Felix von Luschan on behalf of the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin ( the present-day Ethnological Museum ).

Around the end of the 1940s, some economists even rushed to argue that von Neumann-Morgenstern axiomatization of expected utility had resurrected measurability.

Around 1907, he began to associate with composers Arnold Schoenberg and Alexander von Zemlinsky, who lived in the same building at the time.