This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too.

their total passing yardage in three games, 447 on 30 completions in 56 attempts, is only 22 yards short of their total passing yardage in 1959, when they made 469 on 37 completions in 86 tries.

Mantle, the bull-necked blond switch-hitter, had one sensational triple-crown season, 1959, when he batted and also led the American League in home runs, 52, and rbi's, 130.

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

The flow stopped in late 1959 when economic reforms by the then-new government of Fidel Castro prevented Cubans from buying cars on credit.

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.

The Indians have had an on and off rivalry with the Chicago White Sox since the 1959 season ( when the Sox slipped past the Tribe to win the A. L.

A turning point for the industry occurred on November 9, 1959, when the secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Arthur S. Flemming announced that some of the 1959 crop was tainted with traces of the herbicide aminotriazole.

Although the concept of consilience in Whewell's sense was widely discussed by philosophers of science, the term was unfamiliar to the broader public until the end of the 20th century, when it was revived in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book by the humanist biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the culture gap between the sciences and the humanities that was the subject of C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution ( 1959 ).

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

The Aluminum Co. of America ( Alcoa ) mined bauxite between 1959 and 1983, when it turned its concession over to the state.

The series of speed increases — later in 1955, in 1956, in 1957, in 1958, in 1959 — peaked on 31 December 1964 at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia when he reached ; he remains the world's most prolific breaker of water speed records.

This produced a crisis in the MCA in 1959, in which a more assertive leadership under Lim Chong Eu defied UMNO over the education issue, only to be forced to back down when Tunku Abdul Rahman threatened to break up the coalition.

ITV television has been available on parts of the east of the Isle of Man on 3rd May 1956 when Granada Television transmissions started from the Winter Hill transmitting station, and to parts of the west of the island on 1st October 1959 from the Black Mountain transmitting station in Northern Ireland which broadcast Ulster Television.

Computers did not exist when Hohmann transfer orbits were first proposed ( 1925 ) and were slow, expensive and unreliable when gravitational slingshots were developed ( 1959 ).

Adenauer had tarnished his image when he announced he would run for the office of federal president in 1959, only to pull out when he discovered that under the Basic Law, the president had far less power than he did in the Weimar Republic.

The black socks were changed to white from 1959 to 1965, where they were replaced with red socks up until 1971, when the club reverted to black.

However, a new professional team in the area did not surface again until August 1959, when Minneapolis businessmen Bill Boyer, H. P. Skoglund, and Max Winter were awarded a franchise in the new American Football League ( AFL ).

* In Tales to Astonish # 2 ( 1959 ) " My Job: To Catch a Martian ", a professor, who discovers an empty alien spacecraft, hires a private investigator to find the occupant when no one else will listen to him.

In 1959 Thomas Gold proposed the name " magnetosphere " when he wrote:

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 ).

* A. M. Rosenthal ( 1949 ), former executive editor of The New York Times who championed the publication of the Pentagon Papers ; Pulitzer prize winning journalist expelled from Poland in 1959 for his reporting on the nation ’ s government and society

Elyssa Davalos ( born May 30, 1959 ) is a former American television and movie actress.

* 1959 – Antonis Manikas, Greek football manager and former footballer

Production was started at a former munitions factory at Standish near Wigan in 1946 before the new factory at Kitt Green Wigan opened in 1959.

A former U. S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union between October 1959 and June 1962, Oswald was initially arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit, on a Dallas street approximately 40 minutes after Kennedy was shot.

* 1959 – Nancy Grace, American former prosecutor

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.

He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), President of the Palestinian National Authority ( PNA ), and leader of the Fatah political party and former paramilitary group, which he founded in 1959.

In South Vietnam, after the Diệm regime enacted the 10 / 59 Decree in 1959, mobile special military courts dispatched to the countryside to intimidate the rural peoples used guillotines belonging to the former French colonial power to carry out death sentences on the spot.

* Carey May Edge ( born 1959 ), Irish former long-distance runner

* José P. Laurel ( 1891 – 1959 ), former President of the Philippines

* Miriam Kearney, ( born 1959 ), former Irish politician

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.

* A former Interstate 878 existed from 1959 to 1972 along present I-278 east of Interstate 895.

He also had two " recognized " children with his former mistress, Celia Rosa Touzet ( b. 18 July 1929 ): Carlos Prio-Touzet ( b. 5 February 1955 in Havana ) and Rodolfo Prio-Touzet ( b. 12 June 1959 ).

Lee Haney ( born November 11, 1959 in Spartanburg, South Carolina ) is a former American IFBB professional bodybuilder.

Juan Laporte ( born November 24, 1959 ) is a former boxer who was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico.

* John Kennedy, Jr. ( Australian footballer ) ( born 1959 ), former Australian rules footballer

At the age of De Jong is the oldest living and earliest serving former Prime Minister of the Netherlands and the second oldest living former member of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands, after former Minister of Colonial Affairs Gerard Helders ( currently aged ) who served in the Third Drees cabinet ( 1957 – 1958 ) and the Second Beel cabinet ( 1958 – 1959 ).

A former horse barn of the Hazard Powder Company, located at 32 South Maple Avenue, was turned into a square dancing hall in 1959 and is now used as a venue for special events.

* Ernest Vandiver, former mayor of Lavonia and governor of Georgia from 1959 to 1963.

It opened in 1959, and in 1966, the name was changed to Leon J. Lundahl Jr. High School, in honor of Leon J. Lundahl, former Superintendent of Schools for District 47.