Denigration of Tippett reached a climax with the first production of The Midsummer Marriage at Covent Garden in 1955.

* The wooded hilltop and ascending and descending staircases in The Midsummer Marriage, an opera by English composer Michael Tippett ( 1955 ), explore Jungian aspects of the symbol.

Universal Time ( UT ), a term introduced in 1928, initially represented mean time at Greenwich determined in the traditional way to accord with the originally-defined universal day ; then from 1 January 1956 ( as decided by the IAU at Dublin, 1955, at the initiative of William Markowitz ) this " raw " form of UT was re-labeled UT0 and effectively superseded by refined forms UT1 ( UT0 equalized for the effects of polar wandering ) and UT2 ( UT1 further equalized for annual seasonal variations in earth rotation rate ).

On occasions, as in August 1955, the town has had measurable rain on every day of a month in this period.

The history of the Athletics Major League Baseball franchise spans the period from 1901 to the present day, having begun in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City in 1955 and then to its current home in Oakland, California in 1968.

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.

After working all day, Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus around 6 p. m., Thursday, December 1, 1955, in downtown Montgomery.

On the day of Parks ' trial — December 5, 1955 — the WPC distributed the 35, 000 leaflets.

This obstacle was removed in 1955 and in 1969 his feast day was moved to his date of death, 14 December.

" The scripts for the week of 19 September 1955 were both written, recorded, and broadcast on each day.

A 60 cigarette per day smoker, Johnson suffered a near-fatal heart attack on July 2, 1955.

Captain Kangaroo is a children's television series which aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS for nearly 30 years, from October 3, 1955 until December 8, 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day.

The division into doubles ( of various kinds ) semidoubles and simples continued until 1955, when Pope Pius XII abolished the rank of semidouble, making all the previous semidoubles simples, and reducing the previous simples to a mere commemoration in the Mass of another feast day or of the feria on which they fell ( see General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII ).

The studio scheduled three previews for the film on the last days of June and the first day of July 1955.

On December 31, 1955, the day after his divorce was finalized, Peck married Veronique Passani ( 1932 – 2012 ), a Paris news reporter who had interviewed him in 1953 before he went to Italy to film Roman Holiday.

A few days later, Madame Nhu said that the raids were " the happiest day in my life since we crushed the Binh Xuyên in 1955 ", and assailed the Buddhists as " communists ".

Lists were compiled by Morris Swadesh and assumed to be resistant against borrowing ( originally designed in 1952 as a list of 200 items ; however, the refined 100 word list in Swadesh ( 1955 ) is much more common among modern day linguists ).

From 1940 to 1955, growth averaged the equivalent of 6. 9 persons moving into St. Louis Park every day.

Present day Taos Ski Valley was founded in 1955 by Ernie and Rhoda Blake.

The current schoolhouse was built in 1891 at a cost of $ 20, 000, and served as the primary high school for the Salt Creek Local School District until the consolidation with Paint Local, and East Union Local School Districts in Wayne County, and Prairie Local School District in Holmes County combined to form the present day Southeast Local School District in 1955 upon completion of Waynedale High School.

The Council development was an award-winning scheme in its day ( 1955 ), but is now intended for demolition.

One day in 1955, a neighbor gave The Premiers several love letters that had been written to him by his girlfriend, with the hopes that he could give the boys inspiration to write their own songs.

They recorded popular tunes of the day such as " Ebb Tide " ( 1953 ), " Changing Partners ", " Stranger in Paradise " ( 1954 ) and " Melody of Love " ( 1954, 1955 ).

The contract agreeing to do so was signed on 21 September 1955, the day before Independent Television ( ITV ) began in London.

Some still observe the calendars of the Roman Rite from the Tridentine Calendar until 1969, in which Saint Valentine was at first celebrated as a simple feast, until 1955, when Pope Pius XII reduced the mention of Saint Valentine to a commemoration in the Mass of the day.

One blew during a thunderstorm in 1955 ; the other two remain to this day.

There was a five day work week during the summer months from 1955, over the full year from 1969.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

He was not prosecuted, however, and his case was subsequently reopened, in the light of Sicurella v. United States, 348 U.S. 385 ( 1955 ).

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.

Urethane foam, as only one example, was only introduced commercially in this country in 1955.

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.

The first time was in 1955 when a full-dress Big Four summit meeting produced the `` spirit of Geneva ''.

Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS ( Eng ) ( 6 August 188111 March 1955 ) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

In 1955, professional football was finally permitted in the Netherlands.

Robert Graves in The Greek Myths ( 1955 ; 1960 ) asserts that the ægis in its Libyan sense had been a shamanic pouch containing various ritual objects, bearing the device of a monstrous serpent-haired visage with tusk-like teeth and a protruding tongue which was meant to frighten away the uninitiated.

The Rajasthan Land Reforms and Resumption of Jagirs Act, 1952 was the landmark in the legal history of land reforms in Rajasthan which was followed by Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 that became applicable to the whole of Rajasthan.

It was first tested as RDS-37 in 1955.

The gag was often at his own expense, as in the above 1951 sequence showing Capp's interaction with " fans " ( see excerpt ), or in his 1955 Disneyland parody, " Hal Yappland.

In 1955, Paul Erdős showed that the density of amicable numbers, relative to the positive integers, was 0.

Jackie Robinson was also renowned for the thrilling feat of stealing home, which he famously accomplished in Game 1 of the 1955 World Series.

A clarification came in 1955 that awarded a stolen base to a runner, even if he became involved in a rundown, provided he managed to evade the rundown, and advance to the base he was intending to steal.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

* 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.

Barbara Olson ( December 27, 1955 September 11, 2001 ) was a lawyer and conservative American television commentator who worked for CNN, Fox News Channel, and several other outlets.

Notably, Barcelonnette is the only subprefecture of France not be served by rail transport ; the Ubaye line which would have linked Chorges to Barcelonnette was never completed as a result of the First World War and the construction of the Serre-Ponçon Dam between 1955 and 1961.

His production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was the most successful and innovative star-driven independent production company in Hollywood of the 1950s, making movies such as Marty ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), and Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ).

Another of his tunes, " Matchbox Blues ", was recorded more than 30 years later by The Beatles, albeit in a rockabilly version credited to Carl Perkins, who himself did not credit Jefferson on his 1955 recording.