The ceremony was first conducted with the Prince of Wales ( the future Edward VIII ) in 1927, then with King George VI in 1939, and last with his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II in 1959 and 1970.

* Britain's Queen Mother Factory Visit 1959 at YouTube

The 1959 film Donald in Mathmagic Land includes a segment with Donald Duck dressed as Alice meeting the Red Queen on a chessboard.

An extensive system of canals and locks, known as the Saint Lawrence Seaway, was officially opened on 26 June 1959 by Queen Elizabeth II ( representing Canada ) and President Dwight D. Eisenhower ( representing the United States ).

Though the group is predominantly based in the United Kingdom, the sovereign and those amongst her relations who do not meet the requirements of Canadian citizenship law are still considered Canadian ; as early as 1959, it was recognized that the Queen was " equally at home in all her realms.

In May 1959, for example, American ufologist George Adamski received a letter from the lady head of the Dutch Unidentified Flying Objects Society informing him that she had been contacted by Queen Juliana's palace and " that the Queen would like to receive you.

Hollywood stars and foreign dignitaries were attracted to the Stampede ; Bob Hope and Bing Crosby each served as parade marshals during the 1950s, while Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip made their first of two visits to the event as part of their 1959 tour of Canada.

George Nader played Queen in The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen ( 1958 – 1959 ), but he was replaced with Lee Philips in the final episodes.

He recorded Queen of the Gypsies ( 1959 ) and Flamenco!

* 6th Gurkha Rifles, renamed 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles in 1959 ( raised 1817, allocated to British Army in 1948 )

Queen Elisabeth Hospital, Montréal August 1959Duplessis died in office in Schefferville, Quebec, on September 7, 1959, after suffering multiple cerebral seizures.

Marlborough House was previously a royal palace in its own right, but was given by Queen Elizabeth II, the Head of the Commonwealth, to the British government in September 1959 for use for Commonwealth purposes.

The monarch may, however, appoint a delegate to perform the task in his or her place ; Queen Elizabeth II did this in 1959 and 1963 when she was pregnant with Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, respectively, having the Lord Chancellor deliver the address instead.

* Hercules Unchained ( Ercole e la regina di Lidia / Hercules and the Queen of Lydia, 1959 ) starring Steve Reeves

* Hercules Unchained ( 1959 ) ( Ercole e la regina di Lidia / Hercules and the Queen of Lydia ) released in USA 1960

He was in 1959 appointed as governor general by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada John Diefenbaker, to replace Vincent Massey as viceroy, and he occupied the post until his death in 1967.

The appointment of Vanier as governor general was announced on August 1, 1959, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, during a meeting of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada at which Queen Elizabeth II was present and, by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada, approved of Vanier as her representative.

As part of his official duties, Vanier, along with the Queen, attended the inauguration of the Saint Lawrence Seaway on June 26, 1959, and in June 1965 was made Chief Big Eagle of the Blackfoot tribe in Calgary.

In his book, Queen Mary ( London, 1959 ), the Queen's official biography, James Pope-Hennessy reports that the Queen's Aunt Augusta was not fond of the new science of photography, fearing it would intrude deeply into the private lives of Royal personages ; at pp. 101-105 he offers a masterly sketch of this formidable lady.

Holland America Line produced some noted ships, from the 36, 000 gross ton of 1937 ( besides the RMS Queen Mary, the only 1930s-built liner to make a profit ) and the of 1959, one of the first North Atlantic ships equipped for two-class transatlantic crossing and one-class luxury cruising.

HM Queen Elizabeth II accorded it with Royal Charter in 1959, and became " The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club " ( 英皇御准香港賽馬會 ) until 1996.

The current Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II, has opened every session of the Westminster Parliament since her accession except in 1959 and 1963, when she was pregnant with Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, respectively.

Elizabeth Mead ( 1909 – 1983 ), an artist and teacher, married cartoonist William Steig, and Priscilla Mead ( 1911 – 1959 ) married author Leo Rosten.

Tamara Elizabeth " Tammy " Jernigan, Ph. D. ( born May 7, 1959, in Chattanooga, Tennessee ) is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut and a veteran of five shuttle missions.

* In Suddenly Last Summer ( 1959 adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play ), a wealthy woman named Violet Venable ( Katharine Hepburn ) wants her niece Catherine Holly ( Elizabeth Taylor ) lobotomized to silence her talk about Violet's son Sebastian's homosexuality.

Bennington, Brault, Kamuf, Naas, Elizabeth Rottenberg, and David Wills are currently engaged in translating Derrida's previously unpublished seminars, which span from 1959 to 2003.

Reynolds's first marriage, to popular singer Eddie Fisher, produced a son and a daughter, actress / author Carrie Fisher, but ended in divorce in 1959 when Fisher fell in love with Reynolds's former ( and later ) friend Elizabeth Taylor.

He married his second wife Jo Sullivan ( born Elizabeth Josephine Sullivan ) on April 29, 1959.

Paula Elizabeth Yates ( 24 April 1959 – 17 September 2000 ) was a British television presenter and writer, best known for her work on two television programmes, The Tube and The Big Breakfast.

Link meant his first wife, Elizabeth and married in 1953, had the first daughter, Beth July of 1954 then the family moved to Washington, D. C. August 1954, and in February 1959 Link's son Link3rd was born, finally to a farm in Accokeek, Maryland.

Lomax also did important field work with Elizabeth Barnicle and Zora Neale Hurston in Florida and the Bahamas ( 1935 ); with John Wesley Work III and Lewis Jones in Mississippi ( 1941 and 42 ); with folksingers Robin Roberts and Jean Ritchie in Ireland ( 1950 ); with his second wife Antoinette Marchand in the Caribbean ( 1961 ); with Shirley Collins in Britain and the American South ( 1959 ); with Joan Halifax in Morocco ; and with his daughter.

The Flag of the State of Missouri was designed and stitched in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, by Marie Elizabeth Watkins Oliver ( 1885 – 1959 ), the wife of former State Senator R. B.

The film version was released by Columbia Pictures, in 1959, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift ; it was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz from a screenplay by Gore Vidal and Williams.

She was nominated for the 1959 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for A Touch of the Poet and the 1962 Tony for Best Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Elizabeth von Ritter in Henry Denker's A Far Country.

Elizabeth Figg was found dead on 17 June 1959, a full five years before the Jack the Stripper murders started, near the River Thames in Chiswick.

On the 18 December 1959 Elizabeth was declared Venerable by the Sacred Congregation of Rites.

* Elizabeth Taylor ( 1959 – 1964 ; divorced )

( 1959 ) Atlas Coeli II Katalog 1950. 0, Praha, 1960 Prague.

In the 1971 movie Harold and Maude the character Harold, played by Bud Cort, drives two hearses: originally a 1959 Cadillac Superior 3-way ; and then later a custom hearse he makes from a 1971 Jaguar XK-E 4. 2 Series II.

* Princess Catherine Yurievskaya, the youngest daughter of Alexander II of Russia, lived on Hayling Island for many years and was buried at St Peter's church in 1959.

* The Evansville Purple Aces have won five national championships in the NCAA College Division ( now known as Division II ): 1959, 1960, 1964, 1965 ( 29-0 record ), and 1971.

After World War II, the ethnic Lithuanian population remained stable: 79. 3 % in 1959 to 83. 5 % in 2002.

However, in Bush's manuscript draft of " Memex II " of 1959 ( also published in ), Bush says, " Professional societies will no longer print papers ..." and states that individuals will either order sets of papers to come on tape-complete with photographs and diagrams-or download ' facsimiles ' by telephone.

After World War II, racing recommenced in the 1950s and the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring again became the main venue for the German Grand Prix as part of the Formula One World Championship ( with the exception of 1959, when it was held on the AVUS in Berlin ).

The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman: Studies in the Transmission, Development, and Circumstance of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II until the War with the Thirteen Colonies ( 1959, 2004 ).

* 1959 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.

* C-124 Globemaster II from 1959 – 62

The Blue Steel II was cancelled in December 1959 and the British cabinet had decided in February 1960 to cancel the Blue Streak.

After World War II, a small number of technically able sopranos, the most notable of whom were first Maria Callas ( with performances from 1952 and especially those at La Scala and Berlin in 1954 / 55 under Herbert von Karajan ) and then Dame Joan Sutherland ( with her 1959 performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 1959, which were repeated in 1960 ), revived the opera in all of its original tragic glory.

During World War II, Szczerbiec was evacuated to Canada and did not return to Kraków until 1959.

Further, though neither was ever used for their intended purpose, Hatley Castle in British Columbia was purchased in 1940 by King George VI in Right of Canada to use as his home during the course of World War II, and the Emergency Government Headquarters, built in 1959 at CFS Carp and decommissioned in 1994, included a residential apartment for the sovereign or governor general in the case of a nuclear attack on Ottawa.

Most coal operations left Wilkes-Barre by the end of World War II, and the 1959 Knox Mine Disaster marked the end of King Coal's heyday.

Curtis ' comedies include Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), Sex and the Single Girl ( 1964 ) and The Great Race ( 1965 ), and his dramas included playing the slave Antoninus in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus ( 1960 ) co-starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, The Outsider ( 1961 ), the true story of WW II veteran Ira Hayes, and The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), in which he played the self-confessed murderer of the film's title, Albert DeSalvo.

* Jagdgeschwader 71 " Richthofen " ( from 6 June 1959 )— the first jet fighter unit established by the post-World War II German Bundeswehr (" federal defence force "); its founding commander was the most successful air ace in history, Erich Hartmann.

The house was Grade I listed in 1956, and the head gardener's cottage on the junction of Swakeleys Road and The Avenue was Grade II listed in 1959.

He previously served as Minister of Economic Affairs from September 2, 1952 until May 19, 1959 in the Cabinets Drees III, IV and Beel II.

Turkey production went into sharp decline following World War II, and ended completely by 1959.

Real growth in the area came after World War II with the construction of numerous subdivisions, eventually leading to the incorporation of Half Moon Bay in 1959.

While Hialeah was once envisioned as a playground for the elite, Cuban exiles, fleeing Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution as well as World War II Veterans and city planners transformed the city into a working-class community.