Glottochronology itself dates back to the mid-20th century ( see Lees 1953 ; Swadesh 1955, 1972 ) An introduction to the subject is given in Embleton ( 1986 ) and in McMahon and McMahon ( 2005 ).

De Jager ( 1955 ) has calculated the times required for these particles to reach the atmosphere under the influence of the Poynting-Robertson effect, which in this case causes the orbits to become more and more eccentric without changing the semi-major axis.

KFC had been founded in 1910, had nearly become National Champion in 1934 through a narrow loss to Ajax in the finals, and had been professional since 1955.

* 1955 – NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition.

Despite the passport union with Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland Finland could not join the Nordic Council until 1955 because of Soviet fears that Finland might become too close to the West.

In many respects, the act was almost identical to the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, which gives some idea as to how secularized the law regarding Hindus had become.

At Chess Records in the spring of 1955, Bo Diddley's debut record " Bo Diddley "/" I'm A Man " climbed to # 2 on the R & B charts and popularized Bo Diddley's own original rhythm and blues clave-based vamp that would become a mainstay in rock and roll.

In 1955, in another plebiscite, the inhabitants were offered independence, but voted instead for the territory to become a state of West Germany.

Although it was not a great success at the time – selling fewer than 3, 000 copies in the United States during 1955 before going out of print – it soon went on to become a best-seller, and by the early 1960s was required reading in many schools and colleges ; the novel is currently renowned for being a popular choice of study for GCSE English Literature courses in the United Kingdom.

Despite generally positive reviews, criticism induced Jansson to refine her style such that in her 1955 solo exhibition her style had become less overloaded in terms of detail and content.

The first local naval cadets graduated in 1955 and the first army brigade become operational in 1956.

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 ".

With that difficult experience behind them, Daryl abandoned painting to become Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, a position he held between 1942 and 1955.

Although graduates recall the school being viewed as blue-collar and academically inferior to Male High School in its early days, numerous early graduates went on to become medical doctors, and students published a literary magazine called The Crimson from 1899 to 1955.

However, in 1955 Remington merged with Sperry Corporation to become Sperry Rand.

In modern times, the familiar Western layout of horizontal rows from left to right, read from the top of the page to the bottom, has become more popular, especially in the People's Republic of China ( mainland China ), where the government mandated left-to-right writing in 1955.

In February 1955, Brel met Georges Pasquier ( known as Jojo ) who would become the singer's closest friend, manager, and personal chauffeur.

Lincoln Tunnel Helix and toll plaza circa 1955, with the south tube under constructionWith the creation of the Interstate Highway System in 1956, the approach to the Lincoln Tunnel was planned to become an Interstate highway along with present-day Route 3, which itself was not included in the Interstate Highway System because New Jersey thought it would be too expensive to bring it up to Interstate Highway standards.

This school was later renovated to become to only African American school in Murfreesboro, which closed in 1955.

In 1955 Remington Rand merged with Sperry Corporation to become Sperry Rand.

As a playwright, Moberg has established himself as the author of 38 works for the stage or for radio ( 1919-1973 ), some of them has become lighter classics of the Swedish stage and TV ( even feature films ) and directed by directors like Ingmar Bergman ( Lea och Rakel / Leah and Rachel ; Malmö City Theatre 1955 ) and Alf Sjöberg ( Domaren / The Judge ; 1960 ).

He experimented with a syntactic subversion of meaning called ( parataxis ) in the poem " Dream Record: June 8, 1955 " about the death of Joan Vollmer, a technique that would become central in " Howl.

The industry had withered to nothing by 1955, but Pierre Celis later re-launched the town's now iconic white beer which has since gone on to become a global brand.

In 1955 she was invited to become a full member of Magnum Photos.

Carters was bought out by the Beecham company ( later to become SmithKline Beecham and later GlaxoSmithKline ) in 1955.

By 1955 he had become involved in politics as well as trade union activity ; he joined the Young Communist League, becoming its Yorkshire District Chair in 1956 and, later in the same year, a member of its National Executive Committee.

Paintings such as Family ( 1955 ) show a woman seated and a man standing with two children – the parents seem almost solemn while the children are described as hopeful and with a use of color made famous by Cézanne.

Gemser left Indonesia in 1955, at the age of four, and moved with her parents to the Netherlands.

* Requiem for a Wren ( 1955 ; U. S. title: The Breaking Wave ): The story of a young British woman who, plagued with guilt after shooting down a plane carrying Polish refugees in World War II, moves to Australia to work anonymously for the parents of her ( now deceased ) Australian lover, whilst the lover's brother searches for her in Britain.

Her parents, Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse, met in London, married in 1955 and moved to Nigeria.

Romney's parents, Gaskell Romney ( 1871 – 1955 ) and Anna Amelia Pratt ( 1876 – 1926 ), were American citizens and natives of the Territory of Utah.

During the summers of 1955 and 1956 has was the organist at Saint Paul's Church in Gardner, Massachusetts, where his parents stayed during the summer months.

Deukmejian moved to California in 1955 where his sister, Anna Ashjian, introduced him to wife Gloria Saatjian, whose parents were also immigrants from Armenia.

This development, in conjunction with the emergence of the teddy boy and the release of the US films The Wild One ( 1953 ) and Rebel Without a Cause ( 1955 ), saw adolescents in North America and Western Europe collectively express a form of rebellion against the values of their parents and authority in general.

The McFlys ' youngest son, Marty McFly, accidentally traveled back through time to 1955, interfering with his parents ' first meeting.

Gemar was born August 4, 1955 in Yankton, South Dakota, but considers Scotland, South Dakota to be home, where his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Leighton A. Gemar, reside.

David Conte ( 1955 -) is an American composer. Born in Denver Colorado of musical parents, Conte studied piano and choral singing in the Lakewood ( OH ) public schools with B. Neil Davis before attending Bowling Green State University ( OH ), majoring in composition.

William Livingstone ( Bill ) Siksay, former MP ( born March 11, 1955, in Oshawa, Ontario to parents Patricia and William Siksay ) is a Canadian politician, and was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) who represented the British Columbia riding of Burnaby — Douglas for the New Democratic Party from 2004 to 2011.

Following the second divorce of Corll's parents, his mother married a travelling clock salesman named Jake West and the family moved to the small town of Vidor, where Corll's half-sister, Joyce, was born in 1955.

After Lillian died in 1955, the young Cathy was made a ward of the state of Alabama and subsequently adopted by parents who renamed her Cathy Louise Deupree.

In a 1955 revival service in Miami, Florida Coe told the parents of a three year old boy that he healed their son who had polio.

Katanandov was born to Karelian parents in Petrozavodsk on April 21, 1955.

With no additional plutonium to power the time machine, Marty must find the 1955 version of Doc Brown to help him reunite his parents and return to 1985.

On February 8, 1955 she rescued four children from a burning house where they had been locked by their parents as they were leaving for work.

Sense was founded in 1955 as a self-help and support group for the parents of children whose disabilities were neither recognised nor provided for, children born deafblind as a result of their mothers catching rubella in pregnancy.

Nino ( b. 1920 ) married ( 1955 ) a Dutchman Peter Claude Holland d ' Abo ( b. 7 October 1917 ); they are the parents of the British-French actress and former Bond Girl, Maryam d ' Abo.

In 1955, he wrote a novel " Heritage ", which was technically a fiction, but which dealt with the trials of boy who grows up largely neglected and ignored by his famous parents.

2d 67 ( 1955 ) the rule that parents cannot evade their child support obligations through the invocation of freedom of religion by becoming ostensible religious gurus and founding religious communes

Sal was born in Manhattan on June 16, 1955 and raised in The Bronx, New York City by Puerto Rican parents.

Phillips was born in August 1955 to Greek immigrant parents and raised in North Haven, Connecticut In 1976, while attending Princeton University as a junior undergraduate, he designed a nuclear weapon using publicly-available books and papers.