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In 1955, Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in the United Kingdom, shot David Blakely as he emerged from The Magdala in South Hill Park, Hampstead, the bullet holes can still be seen in the walls outside.
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1955 and Ruth
But the tactic fell into relative disuse after Babe Ruth introduced the era of the home run – in 1955, for example, no one in baseball stole more than 25 bases, and Dom DiMaggio won the AL stolen base title in 1950 with just 15.
* 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.
Day subsequently took on more dramatic roles, including her 1955 portrayal of singer Ruth Etting in the biographical film of Etting's life, Love Me or Leave Me, in which she co-starred with James Cagney.
* October 9 – Ruth Ellis, British murderess ( d. 1955 )
Gilmour famously lent The Spectator ’ s voice to the campaign to end capital punishment in Britain, writing an incensed leader attacking the hanging of Ruth Ellis in 1955, in which he claimed " Hanging has become the national sport ", and that the home secretary Gwilym Lloyd George, for not reprieving the sentence, " has now been responsible for the hanging of two women over the past eight months ".
Sir Anthony and his wife Mary had four children: Alexandra Mary ( born 1955 ), Antonia Ruth and Joanna Cynthia ( twins, born 1957 ), and Edward Anthony Morys ( born 1960 ).
Born in London, Joyce was the daughter of architect Paul Phipps ( 1880 – 1953 ), the grandson of Charles Paul Phipps and a second cousin of Ruth Draper, and an eccentric American mother, Nora Langhorne ( 1889 – 1955 ), the daughter of Chiswell Langhorne, an American railway millionaire.
Love Me or Leave Me is a 1955 biographical film which tells the life story of Ruth Etting, a singer who rose from dancer to movie star.
Edward Fry was the father of the art critic and artist Roger Fry and the social reformers, Joan Mary Fry ( 1862 – 1955 ), Margery Fry ( 1874 – 1958 ) and Ruth Fry ( 1878 – 1962 ).
His support players included Fatso Marco ( 1948 – 1952 ), Ruth Gilbert as " Max ", Milton's love-starved secretary ( 1952 – 1955 ), Bobby Sherwood ( 1952 – 1953 ), Arnold Stang ( 1953 – 1955 ), Jack Collins ( 1953 – 1955 ) and Milton Frome ( 1953 – 1955 ).
After more than 12, 000 responses from people aged 4 to 85, the paper ultimately hired two: Jeffrey Zaslow, then a 28-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter, and Diane Crowley, a 47-year-old lawyer, teacher and daughter of Ruth Crowley, who had been the original Ann Landers columnist from 1943 until 1955.
* 1955, 12 July: Ruth Ellis, aged 28, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK ( in 1955 ), had a walk-on part in the same film.
In 1955, Thurman Ruth persuaded a gospel group to sing in a secular setting, the Apollo Theater, with such success that he subsequently arranged gospel caravans that traveled around the country, playing the same venues that rhythm and blues singers had popularized.
* Ruth Ellis-13 July 1955
* Ruth Ellis – The last woman to be hanged in Britain in 1955.
* 1955: won ( beat Ruth Turner 9 – 5 9 – 3 9 – 6 )
In 1955, during his time as Home Secretary, he had refused to commute the death sentence imposed on Ruth Ellis, leading to her becoming the last woman to be executed in the UK.
Ruth Ellis had actually pleaded not guilty at her trial in June 1955.
* 1955: Ruth Pitter
His sister Ruth Shipley headed the Passport Division of the United States Department of State for 27 years from 1928 to 1955.
1955 and Ellis
* 1955 – Janet Ellis, English actress
Over the next 13 years George and Barbara Bush had six children: George W. Bush ( born July 6, 1946 ), Pauline Robinson Bush ( December 20, 1949 – October 11, 1953, died of leukemia ), John Ellis " Jeb " Bush ( born February 11, 1953 ), Neil Mallon Bush ( born January 22, 1955 ), Marvin Pierce Bush ( born October 22, 1956 ), and Dorothy Bush Koch ( born August 18, 1959 ).
View toward Missouri State University's Historic QuadrangleFacing National Avenue is the " Historic Quadrangle ," containing Carrington Hall ( 1908 ), Hill Hall ( 1923 ) and Siceluff Hall ( 1927 ), as well as Cheek Hall ( 1955 ) and Ellis Hall ( 1959 ).
* 1955 – 1999: Harry Ellis Dickson ( Associate Conductor )
Albert Ellis ( September 27, 1913 – July 24, 2007 ) was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy ( REBT ).
Ellis Park was built in 1928, and in 1955 hosted a record 100, 000 people in a Test between South Africa and the British and Irish Lions.
Janet Michelle Ellis ( born 16 September 1955 ) is a British television presenter and actress, best known for presenting the BBC children's television programmes Blue Peter and the award-winning Jigsaw between 1979 and 1987.
* John R. Ellis ( born 1955 ), American filmmaker and special effects artist
* Ellis Waterhouse ( 1955 )
* Jack Ellis ( actor ) ( born 1955 ), British actor )
* Janet Ellis ( born 1955 ), British television presenter
* Ruth Ellis ( 1926 – 1955 ), last woman to be executed in the UK
* Ruth Ellis ( 9 October 1926 — 13 July 1955 ), the last female to be executed in the United Kingdom, lived in a house on Sanderstead Hill.
Ruth Ellis ( 9 October 1926 – 13 July 1955 ) was the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom, after being convicted of the murder of her lover, David Blakely.
On Easter Sunday 1955, Ellis shot Blakely dead outside a public house in Hampstead, and immediately gave herself up to the police.
1955 – Burnham, England – B Ellis / Walsh ( GBR )
Other roles include portraying British barrister Melford Stevenson in a 1980 Granada TV dramatisation of the 1955 case of Ruth Ellis.
1955 and last
Mr. Reama, who retired as vice president of the American Screw Co. in 1955 said, `` Both parties in the last election told us that we need a five per cent growth in the gross national product -- but neither told us how to achieve it ''.
On 19 July 2007, the Newport Pagnell plant rolled out its last car, a Vanquish S. Nearly 13, 000 cars had been made there since 1955.
Chaplin would sever the last of his professional ties to the United States in 1955, when he sold the remainder of his stock in the United Artists, which had been in financial difficulties for some time.
Dylan's legacy as the " doomed poet " was cemented with the publication of Brinnin's 1955 biography Dylan Thomas in America, which focusses on his last few years and paints a picture of him as a drunk and a philanderer.
According to a statement of proceedings published elsewhere in the same edition of the BMJ, the report was officially ‘ approved at last week ’ s Council meeting of the British Medical Association .’ ( BMA Council Proceedings, BMJ, April 23, 1955: 1019 ).
* Helped secure the release of the last German prisoners of war in 1955, ( see Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union ).
The last Khan of Qalat was formally removed from power in 1955, but the title is still claimed by his descendents.
She spent her last years in a close personal and professional collaboration with anthropologist Rhoda Metraux, with whom she lived from 1955 until her death in 1978. Letters between the two published in 2006 with the permission of Mead's daughter clearly express a romantic relationship.
* 1955 – Ivan Šubašić, Croatian-Yugoslav politician, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister and last ban of Croatia ( b. 1892 )
* 1955 – After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality.
The last British troops, 1st Battalion Royal Leicestershire Regiment, left the country on 16 August 1955.
Frank Bartholomew, the last UP president to ascend to the agency's top job directly from its news, rather than sales, ranks, took over in 1955, and according to his cited autobiography, was obsessed with merging UP with the International News Service, a news agency that had been founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1909 following Scripps ' lead.
In Argentina, the successive military coups that overthrew constitutional governments installed de facto governments in 1930, 1943 – 1945, 1955 – 1958, 1966 – 1973 and 1976-1983, the last of which combined the powers of the presidential office to those of the National Congress.
In June 1955 he was the last remaining star of the studio's heyday, but with his contract up for renewal — Tracy opted to go independent for the first time in his movie career.
* In the DC Comics universe, the Martian Manhunter ( J ' onn J ' onzz ) ( 1955 ) is a superhero and a member of the Justice League, believed to be the last of the peaceful Green Martians.
This last attempt lasted from 1955 until final United States Supreme Court approval and merger in March, 1970, which created the Burlington Northern Railroad.
He was president of the company in 1955 – 77 and was the last Steinway family member to be president of Steinway.
Cain was 24 at the time of the 1955 split in the Labor Party that brought down his father's last government.
Hersholt's last role was in the 1955 movie Run for Cover.
Also part of this family are the Earls Manvers, whose title became extinct in 1955 due to the last earl having no sons.
On 7 August 1955, Fanny Blankers-Koen was victorious for the last time, winning the national title in the shot put, her 58th Dutch title.
Mikan came back for the last half of the 1955 – 56 season, but struggled and retired for good after the season.
The studio scheduled three previews for the film on the last days of June and the first day of July 1955.
She last stayed with him months before he died in 1955.
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