In the international yard and pound agreement of 1959 the United States and five countries of the Commonwealth of Nations defined the length of the international yard to be exactly 0. 9144 metres.

The demand for unissued Holly material was so great that Norman Petty resorted to overdubbing whatever he could find: alternate takes of studio recordings, originally rejected masters, " Crying, Waiting, Hoping " and the other five 1959 tracks ( adding new surf-guitar arrangements ), and even Holly's amateur demos from 1954 ( where the low-fidelity vocals are often muffled behind the new orchestrations ).

* 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.

Teaming with director Frank Tashlin, whose background as a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon director suited Lewis's brand of humor, he starred in five more films, and even appeared uncredited as Itchy McRabbitt in Li ' l Abner ( 1959 ).

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.

The Skunk Works got a contract in late 1959 to build five A-12 aircraft at a cost of $ 96 million.

Steiger was married five times: actress Sally Gracie ( 1952 – 1958 ), actress Claire Bloom ( 1959 – 1969 ), Sherry Nelson ( 1973 – 1979 ), Paula Ellis ( 1986 – 1997 ) and actress Joan Benedict Steiger ( married 2000 until his death ).

He married six times, the first five of which ended in divorce: Isabel Jeans ( 1913 – 1915 ); Marie Hemingway ( 1920, for less than a year ); Beatrix Thomson ( 1924 – 8 April 1935 ); Frances Proper ( 9 April 1935 – 1956 ); and to classic pianist Agi Jambor ( 4 November 1959 – 1960 ).

When faced with a court order to finally begin desegregation in 1959 the county board of supervisors stopped appropriating money for public schools which remained closed for five years, from 1959 to 1964.

These five submarines made 40 Regulus strategic deterrent patrols between October 1959 and July 1964, when they were relieved by the George Washington class submarines carrying the Polaris missile system.

In the United Kingdom, Common Ragwort ( Senecio jacobaea ) is one of the five plants named as an injurious weed under the provisions of the Weeds Act 1959.

The team won the state championship five times: 1925, 1938, 1948, 1959 and 1966.

Richard won the Stanley Cup eight times in Montreal, was captain for four of the five straight cup wins from 1955-56 to 1959-60, won the Hart Trophy in 1947, was elected eight times to the first all-star team and six times to the second all-star team, and played in every National Hockey League All-Star Game from 1947 to 1959.

" It is the youngest of the five United States service academies, having graduated its first class in 1959.

The pre-independence flag adopted in 1959 consisted of five colored stars connected by an ellipse.

The 1819 estimate was under five feet, while the 1959 estimate was 5 ' ( 152 cm ) tall.

It has been Norwegian Elite League champions five times, most recently in 1989, and also in 1986, 1977, 1976, and 1959.

From 1959 through 1963 there was no cut to reach the five finalists.

Increased clashes culminated in serious rioting in Lhasa's core on 5 March 1989, five days before the 30th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising.

Ferrari hired five new drivers, Tony Brooks, Jean Behra, Phil Hill, Dan Gurney, and occasionally Cliff Allison, for the 1959 Formula One season.

Goodbye, Columbus is a 1959 collection of fiction by the American novelist Philip Roth, comprising the title novella " Goodbye, Columbus "— which first appeared in The Paris Review — and five short stories.

For the first five seasons, from 1976 to 1980, the show was set in Milwaukee ( executive producer Thomas L. Miller's home town ), taking place from roughly 1959 ( one early episode involves the girls ' three-year high school reunion of the Fillmore High Class of 1956 ) through the early 1960s.

In 1958, Jane gave birth to the first of the five children they would have together, an event Brakhage recorded for his 1959 film Window Water Baby Moving.

Wynette was married five times: to Euple Byrd ( married 1959 – divorced 1966 ); Don Chapel, born Lloyd Franklin Amburgey, ( married 1967 – annulled 1968 ); George Jones ( married 1969 – divorced 1975 ); Michael Tomlin ( married 1976 – annulled 1976 ); and singer / songwriter George Richey ( married 1978 – her death 1998 ).

To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.

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.

Factory stocks in recent months have been the highest they have been in three years, while those at retail are below 1959.

Among arrests reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1959, about half for burglary and larceny involved persons under 18 years of age.

Another hoodlum, Louis Arger, drew $39,000 from Stein's janitor firm, the National Maintenance company, in three years ending in 1959, Stein disclosed in an interview.

In 1959, about 45 % of the population was under 15 years of age.

Day was ranked the biggest box office star for four years ( 1960 ; 1962 – 1964 ) and ranked in the top 10 for 10 years ( 1951 – 1952 ; 1959 – 1966 ).

In 1959 the Red Wings missed the playoffs for the first time in 21 years.

In 1959 Daphne Oram produced a novel method of synthesis, her " Oramics " technique, driven by drawings on a 35 mm film strip ; it was used for a number of years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

From 1954 until 1959 he was the First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, some forty years earlier.

Mountbatten served his final posting at the Admiralty as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from April 1955 to July 1959, the position which his father had held some forty years prior.

It was eight years before he directed another theatrical film, A Hole in the Head ( 1959 ) with Frank Sinatra, which was his first feature film in color.

Futurama was an exhibit / ride at the 1939 New York World's Fair designed by Norman Bel Geddes that tried to show the world 20 years into the future ( 1959 – 1960 ).

* 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.

Released that October, it returned the Famous Flames to the charts and reached # 1 on the R & B chart in February 1959 becoming the first of 17 chart-topping hits on the R & B chart which were credited to Brown over the next 15 years with six of them credited to the Famous Flames.

* 1959 – Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.

Cannon is also ( still ) the longest serving Republican House of Representatives member ever, the second longest serving Republican member of congress ever, as well as first member of congress, of either party, ever to surpass 40 years of service ( non-consecutive ), ending his career with 46 years of cumulative congressional service, a record that held until 1959.

" With the help of record producers Herb Alpert and Lou Adler, Jan and Dean scored a No. 10 hit with " Baby Talk " ( 1959 ), their first song to contain a few of the soon to be famous elements that became associated with surf ( close vocal harmonies, selective use of major and minor chords, falsetto doo-wop singing ) and then scored a series of hits over the next couple of years.

He was released on 23 June 1959, after serving nine years and four months of his sentence at Wakefield Prison, and promptly emigrated to the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ).

Also in 1959, he married a friend from his years as a student communist, Margarete Keilson.

During the years of the series Bonanza ( 1959 – 1973 ), no major or secondary Native characters appeared on a consistent basis.

Bowers, a 1959 graduate of Cornell University, also received an honorary Ph. D. from the University of Santa Clara, where she was a Trustee for nearly 20 years.