* Jim Drewry, Booneville High School Head Football Coach and Mississippi's all-time winningest High School Football coach 346-157-5 all-time coaching record ; Head coaching stops: Kossuth MS ( 1958 – 1959 ), Booneville MS ( 1965 — 1977 ), Kossuth MS ( 1978 – 1986 ), Tishomingo High School MS ( 1989 ), Booneville MS ( 1990 – 2009 )

As well as being declared the greatest player of the first half of the century by The Associated Press, Mikan was on the Helms Athletic Foundation all-time All-American team, chosen in a 1952 poll, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959, made the 25th and 35th NBA Anniversary Teams of 1970 and 1980 and was elected one of the NBA 50 Greatest Players in 1996.

Four of the group's LPs charted among the Top 10 selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959, a record unmatched for more than 50 years, and the group still ranks after half a century in the all-time lists of many of Billboard's cumulative charts, including those for most weeks with a number 1 album, most total weeks charting an album, most number 1 albums, most consecutive number 1 albums, and most top ten albums.

In 1959, in chapter II of The Sleepwalkers, titled " The System of Copernicus ", Arthur Koestler wrote that: " The book that nobody read – the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres – was and is an all-time worst-seller.

It was the fastest-grossing film as well as the highest grossing film of 1959, in the process becoming the second-highest grossing film of all-time behind Gone with the Wind.

From 1959 – 72, he played in 185 games – placing him fourth on Detroit's all-time list.

Majed Ahmed Abdullah Al-Mohammed ( ( born November 1, 1959 in Jeddah ) is a former Saudi Arabian football ( soccer ) striker, the all-time goals leader for the Saudi national team.

Mark Gordon Ella ( born 5 June 1959, La Perouse, New South Wales, Australia ) is an Australian former rugby union player, often considered as one of his country's all-time greats in that sport.

However, Landskrona BoIS played qualification games for Allsvenskan in 1958, 1959, 1962 and 1968 – all without success.

In 1955 they fell down to Division 2 and stayed there for 20 years ; during this time players like Hungarian Ference Marko represented the club at the same time as he lived at the refugee camp in Borgholm in 1957, in 1959 Sune " Mona-Lisa " Andersson, who won an Olympic medal in the 1948 Summer Olympics as a player, as manager, during this time Sten-Åke Johansson played for the club and became the top goalscorer for all time for the club, on 19 October 1975 Kalmar FF defeated Västra Frölunda and returned to Allsvenskan.

Thus, the club was relegated in 1959 and spent four seasons in the second division, returning to Allsvenskan briefly in 1964, returning to the second division in 1965 but was promoted back to Allsvenskan again in 1966.

The still unbeaten Allsvenskan record attendance of 52, 194 was set when IFK played ÖIS on Nya Ullevi in 1959.

The Penn State product led the team to a 7-5 record in 1959, and one year later, he turned in one of the greatest statistical seasons at his position in NFL history.

The record stood until the Los Angeles Dodgers drew a crowd in excess of 92, 500 to watch Game 5 of the 1959 World Series at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum against the Chicago White Sox.

His record of three Brownlow victories ( 1934, 1937, 1938 ), equalled Haydn Bunton, Sr ( 1931, 1932, 1935 ), and later equalled by Bob Skilton ( 1959, 1963, 1968 ), and Ian Stewart ( 1965, 1966, 1971 ).

* 1959 – Ken Nelson, English record producer

William Wyler also matched this record upon winning his third Oscar in 1959.

He first recorded an EP record, " Musique Gaélique ," in 1959, then an LP in 1964 called " Telenn Geltiek " ( available in CD ).

* 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.

Following the Colts first NFL championship, the team once again posted a 9 – 3 record during the 1959 season and would defeat the Giants once again in the NFL Championship Game to claim their second title in back to back fashion.

The Colts then repeated the feat by posting an identical record and routing the Giants in the 1959 final.

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.

Kurt Walker ( born August 9, 1959 ), professionally known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapper and record producer.

Until the 1970s, more than 120, 000 people sometimes crammed into the venue – the record crowd standing at around 130, 000 for a Billy Graham evangelistic crusade in 1959, followed by 121, 696 for the 1970 VFL Grand Final.

In March and April 1959, Davis re-entered the studio with his working sextet to record what is widely considered his magnum opus, Kind of Blue.

In 1959, two black-owned record labels, one of which would become hugely successful, made their debut: Sam Cooke's Sar, and Berry Gordy's Motown Records.

Ninety percent of his record sales were from black people, and his " Smokey, Part 2 " ( 1959 ) rose to the # 1 position on black music charts.

The highest temperature on record was in July 1991 and the coldest in the Januarys of 1952 and 1959.

The team had posted an NFL-worst 1 – 10 – 1 record in 1958 before legendary head coach Vince Lombardi was hired in January 1959.

Lombardi's hard work paid off, and the Packers improved to a 7 – 5 regular season record in 1959.

( Duncan and the King sisters had recorded a record as " Cleve Duncan and the Radiants " in 1959.

Baylor, who was named NBA Rookie of the Year and co-MVP of the 1959 NBA All-Star Game, averaged 24. 9 ppg and 15. 0 rpg helping the Lakers improve to second in their division despite a 33 – 39 record.

Orioles catchers set an MLB record with 49 passed balls in 1959.

The 45 rpm record player was introduced in 1959 and ran through the early 60 " s under the RCA and ARC brand.

* When completed in 1956 the Crystal Palace Transmitter was the tallest structure in the UK, a record it lost to the Anglia Television transmitter in 1959.

His talent went beyond the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( reworked in 1962 from a song Anka wrote earlier called " Toot Sweet " which had been rewritten with lyrics and recorded by Annette Funicello in 1959 as " It's Really Love ") since Anka composed Tom Jones ' biggest hit record " She's a Lady " and wrote the English lyrics to " My Way ", Frank Sinatra's signature song sung by many well known artists.

Attendance records were broken nearly every year in the 1950s and overall attendance increased by 200, 000 from 1949 to 1959.

The reputation and popularity of the Beaulieu collection continued to grow: during 1959 the museum's " attendance figures " reached 296, 909.

The club attendance record also stems from the semifinal of the 1959 cup, when 18, 892 spectators saw Viking beat Odd 4 – 0.

The record attendance, for football, is 52, 194 and was set on 3 June 1959, when Örgryte IS played against IFK Göteborg.

Owing to the decline in attendance after the retirement of Mercedes and Juan Manuel Fangio, the AvD returned the German GP to AVUS in 1959.

In the 1997 World Series, the Marlins played before crowds of over 67, 000 fans — the highest postseason attendance figures in MLB history, only exceeded by Cleveland Stadium, home of the Cleveland Indians during the 1948 World Series, old Yankee Stadium prior to its mid 1970s renovation, and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the temporary home of the Los Angeles Dodgers ( before Dodger Stadium was opened ) in the 1959 World Series.

* Highest average home attendance: 4, 780, 1959 – 60 season ( 17 games )

In 1959, the 10th World Scout Jamboree was held in Los Baños, with the theme " Building Tomorrow Today " with an attendance of 12, 203 scouts.

The record attendance of 30, 069 was set in 1959, in an FA Cup sixth round replay against Blackpool.

The highest attendance record at this stadium was 30, 069 against Blackpool in the FA Cup on 4 March 1959.

In January 1959 officials stated that paid attendance for the game was 3, 152 and actual income was $ 18, 132.

The Bluegrass Bowl organizers proclaimed the game a success despite the low attendance and stated that the game would be played again in 1959, but it was not.

In 1959, the opera house stated in its annual report, " he percentage attendance at all opera in English was 72 per cent ; attendance at the special productions marked by higher prices was 91 per cent … it is ' international ' productions with highly priced seats that reduce our losses ".

In 1959, the club's record attendance was set at 17, 531 for a third round Challenge Cup match against St Helens.

" Among many cultural events of the decade that he witnessed, Delany recounts his attendance at the first New York City performance of artist Allan Kaprow's 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, the 1959 performance piece that, for many, marks the end of modernism and the beginning of postmodernism.

Djurgården's record attendance at Råsunda is 48, 894 against IFK Göteborg on 11 October 1959.

The record attendance, for bandy, is 28, 848 and was set 1959.

His first exposure to jazz came when he saw a concert by Duke Ellington and his 60-member orchestra at the Metropole Hotel in Karachi, West Pakistan in 1959 ; he and his brother were the only Pakistanis in attendance ( the rest of the audience was white ).

* Highest attendance, Nya Ullevi: 52, 194 vs. Örgryte IS, 3 June 1959

Though founded in 1887, under Jack Hyles ' leadership from 1959 – 2001 it became one of the megachurches in the United States and during the 1970s had the highest Sunday school attendance of any church in the world.