The NFL selected the Fox bid, stripping CBS of football for the first time since 1955.

* One Froggy Evening ( 1955 ) selected in 2003

In 1906, the name Gardendale was selected and in 1955, the City of Gardendale was officially incorporated.

In 1955, the Hampton Fire Company selected one of its members, Gilbert Riddle, to organize an emergency squad.

Vale was selected as Malheur's county seat in 1955, 68 years after the county was founded.

Puerto Rico was selected as a trial site in 1955, in part because there was an existing network of 67 birth control clinics servicing low-income women on the island.

Twelve episodes, from 1955 to 1964, were selected for the Gunsmoke: Volume I box set, and another twelve episodes, from 1964 to 1975, were selected for the Gunsmoke: Volume II box set.

: In 1955, this area was selected for secret testing of the Lockheed U-2 by the Central Intelligence Agency ; now undisclosed activities known as Groom Lake or Area 51.

Almost ten years before the founding of the Militant tendency, in 1955, Ted Grant was almost selected by the Walton Constituency Labour Party as its parliamentary candidate.

In his last full season with the Indians in 1955, Doby was selected for his seventh consecutive and final All-Star Game.

He selected the older 1955 Peterbilt 281 over the then-current flat-nosed " cab-over " style of trucks because the long hood of the Peterbilt, coupled to its split windshield and round headlights, gave it more of a " face ", adding to the menacing personality.

In 1955 Meads was selected for the New Zealand under 21 side which toured Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ).

After being selected as a 12th-round pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1949 NFL Draft, he played for several years as defensive back and quarterback, retiring after the 1955 season.

He was subsequently selected for the 1953, 1955, 1957, and 1959 teams, serving as playing captain in 1957.

In 1955 the Redstone team was selected to put America's first satellite into orbit putting this group at the center of both military and commercial space.

As GM's chief, Curtice was selected as Man of the Year for 1955 by TIME magazine.

In May 1955, Edwards was selected for the England squad which travelled to mainland Europe for matches against France, Portugal and Spain, starting all three matches.

That he was selected for enshrinement in 1955 was largely a tribute to his outstanding defensive skills.

The Council would have its own chairman, selected by the province initially, then to be elected by the Council itself after 1955.

* The Library of America selected Liebling's 1955 New Yorker story “ The Case of the Scattered Dutchman ” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime writing, published in 2008.

Through several lengthy meetings and consultations in the fall of 1955, the location for the bridge and its approaches were selected.

For the 50th anniversary of the Medal ( 1955 – 2005 ) it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.

In 1955, however, the Marine Corps selected the site as the home of the Fleet Marine Force Pacific.

Over 800 applied, from which 182 including 138 civilians ( though 101 had previous military experience ) were selected for training beginning in June 1955.

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 ''.

* 1955 – The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.

The Indian consulate was opened in Muscat in February 1955 and five years later it was upgraded to a Consulate General and later developed into a full fledged Embassy in 1971.

Although The Flowering Peach by Clifford Odets was the preferred choice of the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1955 and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was at first considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., chairman of the Board, had seen Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and thought it worthy of the drama prize.

In 1955, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. pressured the prize jury into presenting the Prize to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which the jury considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees (" amateurishly constructed ... from the stylistic points of view annoyingly pretentious "), instead of Clifford Odets ' The Flowering Peach ( their preferred choice ) or The Bad Seed, their second choice.

" Amid The New York Times pan of the film when it opened in August 1955, the reviewer wrote, " About five minutes ( out of ninety-five ) suggest the picture this might have been.

Hiranandan and Advani ( 1955 ) measured 12-14 % post-harvest weight losses in India for chips stored for about five months.

During the 1950s, Newcastle won the FA Cup trophy on three occasions within a five year period, beating Blackpool in 1951, Arsenal in 1952, and Manchester City in 1955.

Over the next ten years, they had five children: Émile ( 1874 – 1955 ); Aline ( 1877 – 1897 ); Clovis ( 1879 – 1900 ); Jean René ( 1881 – 1961 ); and Paul Rollon ( 1883 – 1961 ).

They had five children: actor Miguel Ferrer ( b. 1955 ), Maria Ferrer ( b. 1956 ), Gabriel Ferrer ( b. 1957 ) ( who married singer Debby Boone ), Monsita Ferrer ( b. 1958 ), and Rafael Ferrer ( b. 1960 ).

The rivalry between Collingwood and Melbourne was at its peak between 1955 and 1964, when the two played off in the grand final on five occasions.

Miller continued his research at California Institute of Technology ( 1954 – 1955 ) and then joined the department of biochemistry at Columbia University, New York where he worked for the next five years.

The family moved to the hamlet of Roosevelt on Long Island in 1955, where Stern developed an interest in radio at five years of age.

Ferrer and Clooney had five children: Miguel ( born February 7, 1955 ), Maria ( born May 29, 1956 ), Gabriel ( born December 1, 1957 ), Monsita ( born October 13, 1958 ) and Rafael ( born March 23, 1960 ).

In 1955, the community's business infrastructure consisted of five churches, three general stores, a drug store, bank, locker plant, two hardware stores, two cream stations, two electric stores, three service stations, two implement dealers, three bulk stations, two cafes, one hotel, one movie theater, a recreation hall, two blacksmith shops, a plumbing supply shop, barber shop, four grain elevators, a lumber yard, a poultry egg and feed store, and two taverns.

In 1955 Shallowater was incorporated with a mayor-council form of city government, and during the 1960s the town had five churches, a school, a bank, a library, and a newspaper.

* Dick Kryhoski ( 1925 – 2007 ), was a first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for five different teams between 1949 and 1955.

In 1955 alone one house was demolished every five days.

Sponsored by Warner Lambert's Listerine mouthwash, it was widely syndicated during 1954 – 1955, and was only five minutes ( one or two songs ) long on film, therefore used as a brief interlude or fill-in in programming schedules.

He won five fights in 1955, before losing a decision to Ralph ' Tiger ' Jones.

In all, between 1949 and 1955, she stayed on the R & B chart for a total 149 weeks, with sixteen Top 10 records including five number ones.

Elements of the Big Red One began arriving in July 1955 and over the next five months the remaining units arrived.

After a period of inactivity in films, Werner appeared in five in 1955, among them Mozart, in which he played the title role, and Lola Montès, directed by Max Ophüls.

He was a black rabbi, who would go to upper Pennsylvania and purchase chicken, turkeys and ducks .” Solomon Burke had six younger siblings – a sister, Laurena Burke-Corbin ( born 23 June 1946 ), and five brothers: Elec Edward " Alec " ( born 16 February 1948 ), Vladimir H. " Laddie " ( born 31 July 1949 ), Mario " Chuck " ( born 13 September 1953 ), Daniel S. " Danny " ( born 10 March 1955 ), and Jolester R. M. Burke ( born 24 September 1958 ).

* in Germany there were also four major occupation zones: the British Zone ( after three consecutive Military governors from 22 May 1945, the last stayed on as first of three consecutive High Commissioners 21 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ), the US Zone ( after five Military governors from 8 May 1945, four High Commissioners 2 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ), the Soviet Zone ( after a military commander April 1945 – 9 June 1945 who stayed as first of three Military governors 9 June 1945 – 10 October 1949, the last of whom stayed on as only Chairman of the Soviet Control Commission 10 October 1949 – 28 May 1953, two High commissioners 28 May 1953 – 20 September 1955 ) and the French Zone ( after a Military commander from May 1945 and a Military governor from July 1945, a single High commissioner 21 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ); the Nazi capital, Berlin, enclaved in the Soviet zone, is separately quartered under four military City Commanders ; only the small Dutch zone by the border is destined for annexation in 1949, so it is divided up in two districts, each under a landdrost ( Tudderen, attached to the province of ( Dutch ) Limburg and Elten, attached to Gelderland province ), but returned to Germany after compensation payments and minor border corrections on 11 August 1963