The postwar period also witnessed a dramatic rise in the average standard of living, as characterised by a 40 % rise in average real wages from 1950 to 1965.

Shastri's tenure witnessed the Madras anti-Hindi agitation of 1965.

In 1965, she witnessed the assassination of her father by three gunmen from the Nation of Islam.

In September 1965 Exeter earned a place in UFO history when two Exeter police officers, Eugene Bertrand and David Hunt, witnessed a bright red UFO at close range with a local teenager, Norman Muscarello.

The 1965 war between India and Pakistan witnessed the personal bravery of an Indian soldier, Abdul Hamid, who was honoured with the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military award, for knocking out seven Pakistani Patton tanks with a recoilless gun.

She worked as a market researcher in Watts and witnessed the riots in the summer of 1965.

On the 3 June 1965, a brightly glowing, cigar-shaped object was witnessed by a family in Heytesbury, a village near Warminster.

The area also witnessed an increase in the price of land from an average of seven to nine Lebanese pounds per square meter between 1950 and 1960 to an average of 25 to 35 Lebanese pounds in 1965.

Engle's parents witnessed his flight of 29 June 1965, which exceeded an altitude of 50 miles ( 80 km ) and qualified him for USAF astronaut wings ; he again exceeded 50 miles twice during his career of 16 flights.

This initial part of the Swimming Hall of Fame complex was dedicated on December 27, 1965, witnessed by 4, 500 swimmers and other spectators from all fifty states and eleven foreign countries.

Balboa Stadium witnessed the Chargers ' glory years, which featured such players as John Hadl, Lance Alworth, Jack Kemp, and Ernie Ladd, and hosted the 1961, 1963, and 1965 American Football League championship games, as well as the 1961, 1962, and 1963 AFL All-Star games.

That eruption, in particular, led to the recognition of base surge ( one of the American geologists who witnessed an atomic bomb explosion as a soldier and visited the volcano shortly after the 1965 eruption, compared it to an atomic base surge ) as a process in volcanic eruption, which are now called pyroclastic surges when relating to volcanoes.

Therefore, from 1965 to 1967, the city was an important base for the Tamil agitation against this imposition, and witnessed sporadic rioting.

Andrew Long, a justice of the peace in Bucks County, took the depositions of Colonel Watts and four residents who witnessed the battle: Samuel Henry, William Stayner, Thomas Craven and Samuel Erwin.

However, as witnessed by the large corporate bond calendar at present, as well as the record amount of municipal bond issues approved by voters, the over-all demands for capital funds seem likely to remain high, so that any downward pressure on rates from reduced demand should not be great.

`` We have witnessed in this campaign the effort to project Mr. Mitchell as the image of a unity candidate from Washington.

He may have acted as suffragan, or subordinate bishop, to his predecessor Lyfing before formally assuming the bishopric, as from about 1043 Ealdred witnessed as an episcopus, or bishop, and a charter from 1045 or early 1046 names Sihtric as abbot of Tavistock.

Following World War I, Fleming actively searched for anti-bacterial agents, having witnessed the death of many soldiers from sepsis resulting from infected wounds.

The Lord's Day Act, which since 1906 had prohibited business transactions from taking place on Sundays, was struck down as unconstitutional in the 1985 case R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. Calgary police officers witnessed several transactions at the Big M Drug Mart, all of which occurred on a Sunday.

To establish his authority, Gregory explains that his information came from what he considered the best sources: a handful of Benedict ’ s disciples who lived with the saint and witnessed his various miracles.

The Admiralty, upon receiving Herbert's report, immediately ordered its suppression, but the strict censorship imposed on the event failed when Americans who had witnessed the incident from Nicosians lifeboats spoke to newspaper reporters after their return to the United States.

These range in diameter from a few tens of meters up to about 300 km, and they range in age from recent times ( e. g. the Sikhote-Alin craters in Russia whose creation were witnessed in 1947 ) to more than two billion years, though most are less than 500 million years old because geological processes tend to obliterate older craters.

When Monet traveled to Paris to visit the Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters.

Chiang Kai-shek believed that these martyrs witnessed events on earth from heaven.

In 1948, Sweden witnessed Tattarkravallerna Jönköping, where the prejudices for this social strata led to speeches on how these people were degenerate, impure, parasitic and corroded from within, triggering violence and cleansing.

Within a week of his release from prison, Defoe witnessed the Great Storm of 1703 which raged from 26 to 27 November.

Home to a diverse population hailing from across the Japanese archipelago the island witnessed the birth of a unique culture with the drum at the center of it all.

At this news, Yōzei cried sincerely, which did attract feelings of compassion from those who witnessed his contrition.

Before that battle, a series of omens had been witnessed, including a series of lightning bolts, which Fabius had believed were warnings from the gods.

" Having witnessed the success of the anarcho-syndicalist communities, for example in Anarchist Catalonia, and the subsequent brutal suppression of the anarcho-syndicalists, anti-Stalin communist parties and revolutionaries by the Soviet Union-backed Communists, Orwell returned from Catalonia a staunch anti-Stalinist and joined the Independent Labour Party, his card being issued on 13 June 1938.

The seaport and the shipyard both witnessed several air raids by the Allies from 1943 onwards, but suffered little damage.

Its magnificence has impressed heads of state, and it has witnessed many different types of events, from formal civil ones to record launches, fashion shows, children's Christmas parties and private functions.

The 20th century witnessed a shift from a master-apprentice paradigm of teaching of clinical medicine to a more " democratic " system of medical schools.

During the subsequent Swedish reign over Finland particularly the coastal areas witnessed waves of settlement from Sweden.

She witnessed inoculation being practiced by physicians in Istanbul, and was greatly impressed: she had lost a brother to smallpox and bore facial scars from the disease herself.

In Sartre's case, this was witnessed in June 1961, when a plastic bomb exploded in the entrance of his apartment building.

Over the last five years the largest cities such as Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway have witnessed new large apartment building.

During the late 1970s and 1980s, the city witnessed a speculation spree, fueled by transplanted New Yorkers and others who bought many turn-of-the-20th-century brownstones in neighborhoods that the still solid middle and working class population had kept intact and by local and out-of-town real-estate investors who bought up late 19th century apartment houses often considered to be tenements.

The " town centre " area has witnessed much construction in recent years, predominantly of new apartment buildings, including Virginia Hall, a twelve storey building on the site of the farmhouse previously known as ' Virginia House ' ( the base of operations for many years of the Tallaght Community Arts Centre ).

" The band's baroque House of Usher apartment on London's Shaftesbury Avenue had witnessed pre-Raphaelite hippy scenes, like Sandy the bass player ( of The Deviants and Pink Fairies ), Tony the now and again keyboard player, and a young David Bowie, fresh from Beckenham Arts Lab, sunbathing on the roof, taking photos of each other and posing coyly as sodomites ".

Since the turn of the century Kings Cross has witnessed a large number of real estate developments, both refurbishments of historic apartment buildings and the construction of new ones.

For example: In 1964, an attack on a woman named Kitty Genovese occurred outside an apartment building as witnessed by 38 of her neighbors.