He stood at just 5 feet, 10 inches tall and was hurt numerous times, including a sprained ankle and a broken bone in his leg that kept him out of the last two games of the 1957 regular season.

The last time Cubs pitchers allowed 26 hits was on September 2, 1957 against the Milwaukee Braves.

The Lions have won four NFL Championships, the last in 1957, giving the club the second-longest NFL championship drought behind the Arizona Cardinals.

* 1957 – Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.

A modest success, it was followed by Kelly's last musical film for MGM, Les Girls ( 1957 ), in which he partnered a trio of leading ladies, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall and Taina Elg.

At the state level, from 1957 to 1989, the Country Party under Frank Nicklin and Joh Bjelke-Petersen dominated governments in Queensland -- the last six of those years ruling in its own right, without the Liberals.

Gardner's third and last marriage ( 1951 – 1957 ) was to singer and actor Frank Sinatra.

After appearing in The Young in Heart with Paulette Goddard the following year, she left the film industry for nearly twenty years at the age of 32 in order to travel with her husband Adrian, returning one last time in 1957 as Pat Boone's mother in Bernadine.

Her last films made abroad were Beyond All Limits ( Mexican-American production, 1957 ) with Jack Palance, Faustina ( Spain, 1957 ), Sonatas ( Spain, 1957 ) directed by Juan Antonio Bardem and La Fievre Monte a El Pao ( French-Mexican production, 1959 ) directed by Luis Buñuel.

In 1993, the last president of the studio, Fred Seibert recalled his early production experiences with early LP releases of the studio's effects, and commissioned Sound Ideas to release a four-CD set entitled The Hanna-Barbera Sound FX Library, featuring nearly all of the original H-B sound effects used from 1957 to 1990, a more vast collection compared to the early LP releases ( including the sounds H-B had borrowed from other studios ).

The film was remade by McCarey in 1957 as An Affair to Remember with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in the lead roles, using a very similar screenplay, and by Glenn Gordon Caron in 1994 as Love Affair, starring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and, in her last feature film appearance, Katharine Hepburn.

His last film, the big budget production A Farewell to Arms ( 1957 ) starring Jones and Rock Hudson, was ill received.

Both of these were common, but have suffered from loss of habitat, from competition for nest sites with introduced House Sparrows ( Passer domesticus ), and nest-predation by European Starlings ( Sturnus vulgaris ) and Great Kiskadees ( Pitangus sulphuratus )-this last species was deliberately introduced as late as 1957, with the intent that it would control the previously introduced anoles.

These included the locomotives and stock for the Epping – Ongar shuttle until electrification in 1957, freight trains to sidings including at Fairlop, Barkingside, Buckhurst Hill, Theydon Bois, South Woodford, Loughton,, and ) until the mid-1960s, and early-morning and late-night trains between Liverpool Street and Epping, latterly DMUs, last running on 31 May 1970 ).

The last piece of bombastium known to exist ( about the size of a soccer ball ) was acquired by Scrooge McDuck of Duckburg in 1957, but at that time it was also heavily sought after by the hostile nation of Brutopia.

In the last four years of his life, Fassbinder's companion was Juliane Lorenz ( born 1957 ), the editor of his films during the last years of his life.

In 1957, in one of the last productions in which she appeared during this period, she played the role of the Virgin Mary, performed on a fixed stage in the Museum Gardens.

Due in part to Webb's fondness for radio drama, Dragnet persisted on radio until 1957 ( the last two seasons were repeats ) as one of the last old time radio shows to give way to television's increasing popularity.

A series of grocers set up shop over the first century of the town's existence, until the last one, William Yurisko, saw his establishment burn to the ground on New Year's Eve, 1957.

The last company making knives in the village, Imperial Schrade, closed down its factory after a 1957 fire and moved to nearby Ellenville afterwards, where it lasted until 2004.

Fred Quimby retired in 1955, with Hanna and Barbera replacing him in charge of the remaining MGM cartoons ( including the last seven Tex Avery's Droopy episodes ) until 1957, when the studio shut down the H-B unit, ending all the animation productions.

When Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov took it over in 1957 from Georgi Zaroubin, he made a determined effort to change this idea.

The Orioles have had their games broadcast on WBAL for much of the team's history in Baltimore over three separate stints ( the other two were from 1957 to 1978, and 1988 to 2006 ).

Holly helped win over an all-black audience to rock and roll / rockabilly when the Crickets were booked at New York's Apollo Theater for August 16 – 22, 1957.

" Rock Around the Clock " was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe.

When Sholes took over pop production in 1957 — a result of his success with Elvis Presley — he put Atkins in charge of RCA Victor's Nashville division.

The nearest miss came in 1957 when the Bombers ( as they were popularly known by this time ) earned premiership favouritism after a superb 16 point second semi final defeat of Melbourne, only to lose by over 10 goals against the same side a fortnight later.

The first successful test followed on 21 August 1957 ; the R-7 flew over 6000 km and became the world's first ICBM.

* 1957 – Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.

Brabham's driving on public roads was described as " safe as houses ", unlike many of his contemporaries — on the way back from the 1957 Pescara Grand Prix, passenger Tony Brooks took over driving after Brabham refused to overtake a long line of lorries.

Over the next five decades, he created covers for numerous books and magazines, notably Astounding Science Fiction both before and after its title change to Analog ; Mad magazine ( for whom he painted many early covers featuring the iconic character, Alfred E. Neuman ) from 1958 to 1962 ( he started at Mad in February 1957 and by July 1958 was the magazine's new cover artist ; he painted most of its covers until October 1962 ); cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine Books, Avon, all 58 Laser Books ( which are now collectors ' items ), and over 90 covers for Ace books alone.

In fact, this test did not work as planned, and the first British H-bomb was successfully detonated over the southeastern tip of Christmas Island on 8 November 1957.

A practical method for investigating neutrino oscillations was first suggested by Bruno Pontecorvo in 1957 using an analogy with kaon oscillations ; over the subsequent 10 years he developed the mathematical formalism and the modern formulation of vacuum oscillations.

* 1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

The basis of the dispute is over the identity of the Bahá ' í Guardian, a term referring to the appointed head of the religion, an executive hereditary office held by Shoghi Effendi from 1921 to 1957.

In addition, the city ’ s colossal pace of change ( compared by some to that of Chicago ), had caused its chief planner, Martin Wagner ( 1885 – 1957 ), to foresee the entire centre being made over totally as often as every 25 years.

The French government ruled it through a Governor-General until the elections of 1957 when a High Commissioner of the République took over.

Despite having a limited range, by the end of LeMay ’ s command in 1957, the B-47 had become the backbone of SAC, comprising over half of its total aircraft and eighty percent of its bomber capacity.

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.

The program was created in 1957 and has channeled approximately $ 38 billion from over 550 financial institutions toward development projects in over 100 different emerging markets.

Among honors which Smith received over the years were DuPont Awards in 1955 and 1963, a Sigma Delta Chi Award for radio journalism in 1957, and an award from the American Jewish Congress in 1960.

Wright contracted Amoebic dysentery on a visit to Africa in 1957, and despite various treatments, his health deteriorated over the next three years.

Only one of the Little Rock Nine, Ernest Green, got the chance to graduate ; after the 1957 – 58 school year was over, the Little Rock school system decided to shut public schools completely rather than continue to integrate.

He was also popular on Woman's Hour and wrote a monthly article for She magazine for over a decade, starting in January 1957.

Indeed the only major changes in the town's basic layout have been the bridging over of the original railroad crossing in 1937, and the extension and widening of Connecticut Avenue, the town's main thoroughfare, in 1957.