Bill Summers ' 1955 baseball card

Summers umpired in 8 World Series ( 1936, 1939, 1942, 1945, 1948, 1951, 1955 and 1959 ), tying the AL record shared by three other arbiters.

Kristine Sutherland ( born Kristine Young on April 17, 1955 in Boise, Idaho ) is an actress best known for her role as Buffy Summers ' mother Joyce Summers on the television show Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

In 1969, Karpov became the first Soviet player since Spassky ( 1955 ) to win the World Junior Chess Championship, scoring an undefeated 10 / 11 in the finals at Stockholm.

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.

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.

The record was released in March 1955, and the A-side, " Bo Diddley ", became a # 1 R & B hit.

The Royal Netherlands Navy also used the rank of commandeur from the end of the 16th century for a variety of temporary positions, until it became a conventional permanent rank in 1955.

In addition to recording, Atkins became a design consultant for Gretsch, who manufactured a popular Chet Atkins line of electric guitars from 1955 – 1980.

In 1955 American nuclear arms policy became one aimed primarily at arms control as opposed to disarmament.

As a teenager, McLean became interested in folk music, particularly the Weavers ' 1955 recording At Carnegie Hall.

Caesium atomic clocks became operational in 1955, and quickly confirmed the evidence that the rotation of the earth fluctuated randomly.

In 1955, most of the western wing was combined to form a new West Pakistan province ( which contained four provinces and four territories ) while East Bengal became the new province of East Pakistan ( a single provisional state ).

West Germany became a NATO member in 1955.

*: 1955: Allen Kent joined Case Western Reserve University, and eventually became associate director of the Center for Documentation and Communications Research.

In addition, Hartmann became a member of the Academy of Arts in Munich ( 1952 ) and Berlin ( 1955 ) and received an honorary doctorate from Spokane Conservatory, Washington ( 1962 ).

Italian radicals also maintained close links with republicanism, as well as with socialism, with the Partito radicale founded in 1955, which became the Transnational Radical Party in 1989.

Robson did not live up to expectations and was deposed in September 1955 by Morton, who then became Leader.

His son, Raymond Bernard became an influential French filmmaker ( using as scripts a number of works authored by his father ) while his son Jean-Jacques Bernard published a memoir of his father in 1955 titled Mon père Tristan Bernard ( My Father, Tristan Bernard ).

At age 20, Cobb became the youngest player to win a batting championship and held this record until 1955 when fellow Detroit Tiger Al Kaline won the batting title when he was twelve days younger than Cobb had been.

During 1955 and 1956 the Manchester College of Science and Technology achieved independent university status under its own Royal Charter and became separately funded from the University Grants Committee.

After 1955 however, there was a dramatic ten-fold increase in the rate of wheat yield improvement per year, and this became the major factor allowing global wheat production to increase.

In 1945 the school received the status of Higher Engineering School and in 1955 it became the University of Technology.

He became " one of the consummate filmmakers of the 20th century " after directing a string of successful films, including, A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), and East of Eden ( 1955 ).

In 1955 joined the Central Committee of the Slovak branch and in 1962 became a member of the presidium.

Already in 1955 he started writing for the Casabella magazine, where he became editor between 1959 – 1964.

In 1955, she became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company through her marriage to company Chairman Alfred Steele.

In 1955, the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi was established under the University of Karachi in Pakistan, in collaboration with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and became the first Asian business school to offer an MBA program under the US MBA model.

The initiation of sampling censuses in Ruanda-Urundi ( 1952 ) and in the Congo ( 1955 - 57 ) were major advances.

Chelsea had their first major success in 1955, when they won the league championship, and won various cup competitions during the 1960s, 1970s, 1990s and 2000s.

In 1955, 21 years later, Petersen retired having created 12 major sculptures for the campus and hundreds of small studio sculptures.

The franchise was established following the actions of Stuart Symington, then-United States Senator from Missouri, who demanded a new franchise for the city after the Athletics ( Kansas City's previous major league team from 1955 to 1967 ) moved to Oakland, California.

In addition to Westerns and the science fiction films, three of his early major roles were in noir films, Kansas City Confidential of 1952, Vice Squad of 1953, and The Big Combo of 1955.

However, lack of archaeological evidence for Nazareth from Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic or Early Roman times, at least in the major excavations between 1955 and 1990, shows that the settlement apparently came to an abrupt end about 720 BC, when many towns in the area were destroyed by the Assyrians.

After sitting on the bench for the Pirates ' first three games, Clemente played on April 17, 1955, in the first game of a double header against the Dodgers and made his first major league hit, a ground ball that hit off the glove of shortstop Pee Wee Reese, as well as a catch-dubbed " heart-stopping " by a Pirates beat writer-to rob his Santurce teammate, Junior Gilliam.

In 1955, diplomatic relations were severed with the ransacking of Pakistan's embassy and again in 1961, when Pakistan Armed Forces had repelled a major communist revolt in Bajaur region of Pakistan.

Chuck Berry, with " Maybellene " ( 1955 ), " Roll over Beethoven " ( 1956 ), " Rock and Roll Music " ( 1957 ) and " Johnny B. Goode " ( 1958 ), refined and developed the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, focusing on teen life and introducing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.

Sir Cyril Fox completed the first major survey of the Dyke ( Fox 1955 ), and, in agreement with Asser, theorized that the Dyke ran from the estuary of the River Dee in the north to the River Wye in the south ( approximately 150 miles, or 240 km ).

After the publication of The Lord of the Rings ( 1954 – 1955 ), the grammar rules of his major Elvish languages Quenya, Telerin and Sindarin went through very few changes ( this is late Elvish 1954 – 1973 ).

Other major sports clubs were founded in the following years like Grupo Desportivo de Lourenço Marques ( 1921 ), Clube Ferroviário de Lourenço Marques ( 1924 ), Sport Club de Vila Pery ( 1928 ), Clube Ferroviário da Beira ( 1943 ), Grupo Desportivo da Companhia Têxtil do Punguè ( 1943 ), and Sport Lourenço Marques e Benfica ( 1955 ).

After major accidents at the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 1957 Mille Miglia the power of sports cars was curbed with a 3 litre engine capacity limit applied to them in the World Championship from 1958.

On 8 December 1955, there was a meeting of the heads of all major German embassies and the leadership of the Foreign Office.

Between 1955 and 1963 he was a lector at a major West-German publishing house.

A major success was the conversion of Jacques Soustelle, who went to Algeria as governor general in January 1955 determined to restore peace.

Bunning's first game as a major league pitcher was on July 20, 1955, with the Detroit Tigers, after having toiled in the minor leagues 1950 – 1954 and part of the 1955 season, when the Tigers club described him as having " an excellent curve ball, a confusing delivery and a sneaky fast ball ".

Leflore County was a major site of activism and violence during the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ).

Cincinnati desired to expand the airport for major commercial service through the 1950s, but Blue Ash fought the city by incorporating first as a village in 1955 and then as a city in 1961.

* Ty Helfrich ( 1890 – 1955 ), former major league baseball player.

Former major league baseball player Paul Pop-ovich, who scored 2, 660 points at Flemington High from 1955 – 58, held the mark for 52 years.

Something of his feelings after this revelation is probably reflected in the agonized first movement of the deeply moving Cello Concerto ( 1955 ), his last major work, although its second movement, originally intended as a musical portrait of his wife, is of greatest serenity.