* 1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term " rock and roll " and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio for refusing to deny allegations that he had participated in the payola scandal.

In 1959, a year following the coup, he was again forced to retire from the military under allegations that he led an antigovernment rebellion in Mosul by officers who favoured closer ties with the United Arab Republic.

Although Cuba has been politically connected to the Soviet Union since the United States broke off relations with Cuba shortly after the president Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, few considerable allegations regarding the political abuse of psychiatry in this country emerged before the late 1980s.

At the collegiate level, academic quiz bowl competitions enjoyed broad exposure in the United States media via College Bowl, which started on radio in 1953 and aired on national television from 1959 to 1970.

According to Van Doren, the two men had not met until August 1959, when the subcommittee to which Goodwin served as counsel had begun investigating the quiz shows and Van Doren was already established on The Today Show.

Except for the skill-based Jackpot Bowling ( 1959 – 1961 ), a period on Beat the Clock ( 1960 ) when its Bonus Stunt grew in $ 100 increments past the $ 10, 000 mark until finally being won for $ 20, 100 on September 23, and the short-lived ABC quiz 100 Grand ( 1963 ), the networks stayed away from awarding five-figure cash jackpots until the premiere of The $ 10, 000 Pyramid in 1973.

Kevin Ashman ( born 2 November 1959 ) is an English quiz player.

A few months later, in an October 1959 speech before the same RTNDA that Murrow had addressed in 1958, Stanton promised there would be no repeat of the program deceptions embodied by the quiz show scandals.

Morgan also took a turn hosting a radio quiz show, Sez Who, in 1959 ; the quiz involved guessing the famous voices making memorable comments that had been recorded over the years.

The show aired daily in the morning and once a week in the evening until 1959, when the networks began canceling game shows in the wake of the quiz show scandal.

After clerking for United States Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter in 1958, Goodwin came to Senator John F. Kennedy's attention in 1959 while working as special counsel to the Legislative Oversight Subcommittee of the U. S. House of Representatives, where Goodwin was involved in investigating the Twenty One quiz show scandal ( which provided the story for the 1994 movie Quiz Show in which he is portrayed by actor Rob Morrow ).

From 1955 to 1959 he hosted the quiz show Lascia o raddoppia ?, the Italian version of USA's The $ 64, 000 Question.

The Summary Report On Desegregation Progress In Education In The Middle-South Region, 1959 - 1960 '' clearly shows two pieces of information.

In 1959, many of the higher stakes game shows were discovered to be rigged.

Hefner remade himself as a bon viveur and man about town, a lifestyle he promoted in his magazine and two TV shows he hosted, Playboy's Penthouse ( 1959 – 1960 ) and Playboy After Dark ( 1969 – 1970 ).

Launius ( 2003 ) shows the huge size and complexity of the The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) oral history program since 1959.

Warners then produced a series of popular private detective shows beginning with 77 Sunset Strip ( 1958 – 64 ) followed by Hawaiian Eye ( 1959 – 1963 ), Bourbon Street Beat ( 1960 ) and Surfside Six ( 1960 – 1962 ).

The original General Motors Firebird was a series of concept cars developed for the 1953, 1956 and 1959 Motorama auto shows, powered by gas turbines.

The peak year for television Westerns was 1959, with 26 such shows airing during prime-time.

Kovacs ' television programs included Three to Get Ready ( an early morning program seen on Philadelphia's WPTZ from 1950 through 1952 ), It's Time for Ernie ( 1951, his first network series ), Ernie in Kovacsland, ( a summer replacement show for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, 1951 ), The Ernie Kovacs Show ( 1952 – 56 on various networks ), a twice-a-week job filling in for Steve Allen as host of The Tonight Show on Mondays and Tuesdays ( 1956 – 57 ), and game shows Gamble on Love, One Minute Please, Time Will Tell ( all on DuMont ), and Take a Good Look ( 1959 – 61 ).

Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine and Tom Wesselmann had their first shows in the Judson Gallery in 1959 / 60.

* Attractive blonde Nan Peterson ( born 1939 ) played mainly decorative parts in some twenty TV shows and four films during a five-year period between 1959 and 1964.

Auerbach's first solo exhibition was at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London in 1956, followed by further solo shows at the Beaux Arts Gallery in 1959, 1961, 1962 and 1963, and then at Marlborough Fine Art in London at regular intervals after 1965 ; at Marlborough Gallery, New York, in 1969, 1982, 1994, 1998 and 2006 ; and at Marlborough Graphics in 1990.

Recreating environments connected to fado themes inside the study, television broadcasted regularly, between 1959 and 1974, with live feeds of fado shows which would undoubtedly contribute to its mediatization.

It was originally priced US $ 186 with 50mm f / 2 lens ... wrong, a Sept 1959 Nikon Inc. NYC ad clearly shows $ 323 list price ; in 1964 the US price was $ 323 with a standard prism and f / 2 lens.

* 1959 — The popular film On the Beach shows the last remnants of humanity in Australia awaiting the end of the human race after a nuclear war.

Data shows that between 1959 and 1986 an average of 5, 563 rattlesnakes were killed per year in Sweetwater, Texas, due to rattlesnake roundups, and these roundups have led to documented declines and local extirpations of rattlesnake populations, especially Eastern Diamondbacks in Georgia.

* Robert Fischer vs Vasily Smyslov, Candidates ' Tournament, Yugoslavia 1959, Sicilian Defence, Fischer / Sozin Variation ( B86 ), 0 – 1 The 16-year-old Fischer had honed this opening line into a formidable weapon, but here Smyslov shows him a few new wrinkles.

Constant writes several theoretical articles for the French SI journal and stages events at several musea in Paris as well as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, where he shows his New Babylon series in 1959.

Savalas was a character actor on TV shows during 1959 and the 1960s.

He spent a brief period in Minneapolis during 1959 – 1961, attending the University of Minnesota, where he played shows at the Ten O ' Clock Scholar on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus.

In 1959, handling the General Mills account as an account executive with the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency in New York, W. Watts Biggers teamed with Chet Stover, Treadwell D. Covington and artist Joe Harris in the creation of television cartoon shows to sell breakfast cereals for General Mills.

His album cover for Terry Snyder and the All Stars 1959 album Persuasive Percussion shows a tightly packed grid or lattice of small black disks from which a few wander up and out like stray molecules of some light gas.

By the end of 1959, all first generation big-money quizzes were gone with single-sponsorship television following and a federal law against fixing television game shows ( an amendment to the 1960 Communications Act ) coming.

In addition to his work on game shows, Hall was a radio analyst for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League during the 1959 – 60 season.

Guest appearances on the television variety shows of Dinah Shore and Perry Como in 1958 and 1959 were among the last of her entertainment career.

Cars were operated in 1959 for an average $.027 per mile.

During fiscal year 1959, six courses were conducted: Forensic Pathology, Application of Histochemistry to Pathology, Pathology of Diseases of Laboratory Animals, Ophthalmic Pathology, Pathology of the Oral Regions, and a Cardiovasculatory Pathology Seminar.

During fiscal years 1959 and 1960, there were 139 military and civilian students who came to the Institute for varying periods of special instruction.

During fiscal years 1959 and 1960, there were 795,586 visitors to the Museum.

Two special issues were published, one for November 1959 on Space Medicine, the other the Tenth Anniversary issue for January 1960.

In accordance with the two-year contract signed in May, 1959, with the International Association of Machinists, AFL-CIO, wages of hourly employees were increased by 4% in May, 1960, and pay levels for non-exempt salaried employees were increased proportionately.

Both home and auto radios were in excellent demand, with retail sales of home sets ahead of 1959 in every month of the first eleven ; ;

Sales of passive components, such as capacitors and resistors, although not growing as fast as those of semi-conductors were ahead of 1959 this year, and should increase again in 1961.

In 1959, according to the Engineers, Lake Texoma was only one of thirty-two artificial lakes and reservoirs which were used for recreation by over 1,000,000 persons.

The sections were mounted on cold slides smeared with Haupts' adhesive ( Johansen, 1940 ) in earlier experiments, and in later experiments with a different mixture of the same components reported by Schramm and Rottger ( 1959 ).

Similar identification cards were issued in 1959 to all adult females.

the results were still being processed in 1959.

Starts were down 20 percent from 1959.

Between 1950 and 1960, van Vogt produced collections, notable fixups such as: The Mixed Men ( 1952 ) and The War Against the Rull ( 1959 ), and the two " Clane " novels, Empire of the Atom ( 1957 ) and The Wizard of Linn ( 1962 ), which were inspired ( like Asimov's Foundation series ) by the fall of the Roman Empire, specifically Claudius.

The surviving children ( all daughters ) were ; Ḍiyá ' iyyih < u > Kh </ u > ánum ( mother of Shoghi Effendi ) ( d. 1951 ) Túbá < u > Kh </ u > ánum ( 1880 – 1959 ) Rúḥá < u > Kh </ u > ánum and Munavvar < u > Kh </ u > ánum ( d. 1971 ).

There were four ad hoc three-game playoff series due to ties under this formulation ( in 1946, 1951, 1959 and 1962 ).

The Cayman Islands ' physical isolation under early British colonial rule allowed the development of an indigenous set of administrative and legal traditions which were codified into a constitution in 1959.

His efforts were unsuccessful and the two campuses were established in 1959.

Decades of mediocrity followed for the White Sox until the 1950s, when perennially competitive teams were blocked from the playoffs by the dynastic New York Yankees, with the exception of the 1959 pennant winners led by Early Wynn, Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio, and manager Al Lopez.

Researchers at IBM investigated chord keyboards for both typewriters and computer data entry as early as 1959, with the idea that it might be faster than touch-typing if some chords were used to enter whole words or parts of words.

Cleveland's campaigns in 1959 and 1960 were noteworthy for Brown's league-leading rushing totals in both seasons.

All-Union Population Censuses were carried out in the USSR ( which included RSFSR and the other republics ) in 1920 ( urban only ), 1926, 1937, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989.

More scientific censuses were taken 1948 and 1959 where the enumeration unit was persons.