Upon completing his studies, Tunku Mahmud returned to Malaysia in 1956 and briefly served as a cadet officer in the Johor Civil Service, taking charge of affairs in District Affairs, Land and Treasury departments until his appointment as the Tunku Mahkota of Johor in May 1959.

In 1959, General Motors started an experimental project to digitize, store and print the many design sketches being generated in the various GM design departments.

In 1959, the need for a professional and learned body for mathematics and its applications was recognised independently by both Sir James Lighthill and a committee of the heads of the mathematics departments of several colleges of technology together with some interested mathematicians from universities, industry and Government research establishments.

In 1959 Mr. Opel became executive assistant to IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson Jr., after which he rose rapidly, taking positions in manufacturing and public relations and other departments, and managed the introduction of the IBM System 360 mainframe computer in 1964.

The first of all RECs, the erstwhile REC Warangal started functioning in 1959 with Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering departments.

Technically the CPRR remained a corporate entity until 1959, when it was formally merged into Southern Pacific.

After first being promoted to Serie A for one season in 1957 – 58, in 1959 the team merged with another city rival ( called Hellas ) and commemorated its beginnings by changing its name to Hellas Verona AC.

In January 1959, Senegal and the French Sudan merged to form the Mali Federation, which became fully independent on 20 June 1960, as a result of the independence and the transfer of power agreement signed with France on 4 April 1960.

Henry Crown became the company's largest shareholder, and merged his Material Service Corporation with GD in 1959.

Emil Dopyera ( also known as Ed Dopera ) manufactured Dobros from 1959 under the brand name Dopera's Original before selling the company and name to Semie Moseley, who merged it with his Mosrite guitar company and manufactured Dobros for a time.

In 1959 Bristol Aircraft merged with several major British aircraft companies to form the British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ), and Bristol Aero Engines merged with Armstrong Siddeley to form Bristol Siddeley.

It merged with the N & W in 1959.

The chairmanship of Eric Mensforth from 1953 – 1968 marked the start of the transition, which was aided by the government when in 1959 – 1961 they forced the merger of the 20 or so aviation firms into three groups, British Aircraft Corporation and Hawker Siddeley Group took over fixed-wing designs, while the helicopter divisions of Bristol, Fairey and Saunders-Roe ( with their hovercraft ) were merged with Westland to form Westland Helicopters in 1961.

The Romanian branch acquired the name Babeş ; a Hungarian university, Bolyai, was established in 1945, and the two were merged in 1959.

After World War II, the population declined ; in 1959, the village was no longer able to support its own school district, which was merged with that of Scotia.

In 1959, the Virginia Railway was merged with the Norfolk and Western.

Then, on December 1, 1959, the Virginian Railway merged with the larger Norfolk and Western Railway.

The VGN was merged with the Norfolk and Western Railway ( N & W ) in 1959, and both later became part of the Norfolk Southern Railway ( NS ).

In 1959, these two colleges later merged to become Wisconsin State College and Institute of Technology.

Among the new denominations formed by those seceding or being expelled from the Church of the Nazarene are: the People's Mission Church ( 1912 ), which had become part of the Church of the Nazarene in 1911, but subsequently became part of the Pilgrim Holiness Church in 1925 ; the Pentecost Pilgrim Church ( 1917 ), which merged with the International Holiness Union to form the Pilgrim Holiness Church in 1922 ; the Bible Missionary Church ( 1955 ), which subsequently split to create the Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches ( 1959 ), and the Nazarene Baptist Church ( 1960 ) ( later Nazarene Bible Church in 1967 ); the Holiness Church of the Nazarene ( 1961 ) in the Philippines ; the Church of the Bible Covenant ( 1967 ); the Crusaders Churches of the United States of America ( 1972 ); and the Fellowship of Charismatic Nazarenes ( 1977 ).

In 1959, the aero engine business, Armstrong Siddeley was merged with that of the Bristol Aero Engines to form Bristol Siddeley.

Times Newspapers was formed in 1967 when The Thomson Corporation purchased The Times from the Astor family and merged it with The Sunday Times, which it had owned since 1959.

It was established on May 1st, 1959, when two newspapers Ljudska pravica ( The People's Right ) and Slovenski poročevalec ( The Slovenian Reporter ) merged.

* April 1, 1959 The town of Honmaki and the villages of Kasuga, Fuse, and Kyowa merged to reform the town of Mochizuki.

By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of March 19, 1959, the Councils of Deputies of Kandalaksha and of Kandalakshsky District were merged into one Kandalaksha Town Council of Deputies.

Bob Thiele was the President of the label until 1959 when it merged with Steve Allen's Hanover Records and they became co-owners.

In 1959, Fort Worth left the Texas League to join the American Association, but they merged with the Dallas Rangers the following year.

It traces its roots to the London UFO Research Association, founded in 1959, which merged with the British UFO Association ( BUFOA ) to form BUFORA in 1964.

After serving as visiting professor at Harvard University in 1958, and the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley in 1959 – 60, he resigned his post in Singapore at the University of Malaya to become an independent writer and celebrity.

Masaki Kobayashi made two of the three films which would collectively become known as The Human Condition Trilogy: No Greater Love ( 1958 ), and The Road To Eternity ( 1959 ).

* 1959 – The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.

Andre Weitzenhoffer and Ernest R. Hilgard developed the Stanford Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility in 1959, consisting of 12 suggestion test items following a standardised hypnotic eye-fixation induction script, and this has become one of the most widely referenced research tools in the field of hypnosis.

In early 1959, French Sudan ( which changed its name to the Sudanese Republic ) and Senegal united to become the Mali Federation.

* 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.

By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, and the breaking of the payola scandal ( which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs ), gave a sense that the initial rock and roll era had come to an end.

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.

The two nations established diplomatic relations on January 4, 1959 and have since become strongly close global allies.

Turnbull became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1965, after he moved to New York City to become curator in charge of African Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in 1959.

These years shaped his future life: he composed for his fellow students who performed everything he composed, he decided to become a college professor and in 1959 he married his first wife, a fellow student, Georganna Towne.

" The musical tells the story of real-life Puerto Rican youth Salvador Agron, who wore a cape while committing two murders in 1959 New York, and who went on to become a writer in prison.

Similarly, though Sir Winston Churchill was first elected in 1900, he did not become Father of the House until 1959 because he lost his seat in 1922, not returning to the Commons until 1924.

In 1959, he organized a failed assassination attempt via mail bomb on Prince Sihanouk, the leader of neighbouring Cambodia, with whom relations had become strained.

The first published of these letters, in the August 1959 issue of Action Comics (# 255 ), was written by an eleven-year-old from Garland, Texas named Dave Mitchell, who would go on to become a well-known Miami radio personality.

The main wave of collectivization occurred between 1959 and 1961, and at the end of this period more than 95 % of agricultural land in Hungary had become the property of collective farms.

In 1959, it was planned to become part of the Paterson Peripheral, an extension of Route 20 from downtown Paterson.

The planned Paterson spur would become an extension of Route 20 in 1959.

On February 3, 1959, a day that has become known as The Day the Music Died ( from Don McLean's song " American Pie "), Richardson was killed in a plane crash in Iowa, along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.

" " The Fort Walton Beach-Fort Walton did not become Fort Walton Beach until June 1953 places were doing a booming business on the weekends while there were rumors that the sheriff might enforce the law in Shalimar and close the place there ," Meigs told the Playground News in 1959.

Lansing did not become an incorporated city until 1959.

Indianhead Mountain opened in 1959 and has grown to become a major tourist magnet in both winter and summer.

During this fight the township was able to become a new city in 1958 and seated in 1959.

In 1959, a young businessman by the name of Art Van Elslander opened the doors to a Danish furniture showroom on Gratiot Avenue in Eastpointe which would become the first Art Van.

Trimont was once two towns, Triumph and Monterey, but were combined by referendum in 1959 to become Trimont.