Also in 1877, he proposed measuring the meter as so many wavelengths of light of a certain frequency, the kind of definition employed from 1960 to 1983.

* 1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali ( then Cassius Clay ) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

In 1889 there was no generally accepted theory regarding the nature of light but by 1960 the wavelength of specific light spectra could give a more accurate and reproducible value than a prototype metre.

* Auster D. 6, a 1960 four-seat British light aircraft

Electroluminescent automotive instrument panel backlighting, with each gauge pointer also an individual light source, entered production on 1960 Chrysler and Imperial passenger cars, and was continued successfully on several Chrysler vehicles through 1967.

The Vinland Map first came to light in 1957 ( three years before the discovery of the Norse site at L ' Anse aux Meadows in 1960 ), bound in a slim volume with a short medieval text called the Hystoria Tartarorum ( usually called in English the Tartar Relation ), and was unsuccessfully offered to the British Museum by London book dealer Irving Davis on behalf of a Spanish-Italian dealer named Enzo Ferrajoli de Ry.

Until 1960, the meter was defined by a platinum-iridium prototype bar with two scratch marks on it ( that were, by definition, spaced apart by one meter ), the International Prototype Metre, and in 1983 the meter was redefined to be the distance in free space covered by light in 1 / 299, 792, 458 of a second ( thus defining the speed of light to be 299, 792, 458 meters per second ).

In about 1960 a big truck ran under the light and knocked it down.

At this time, the creation gained considerable international kudos ; in 1961 the show won a Golden Rose at Montreux for best light entertainment programme and the first three albums of songs ( 1960 – 1962 ) all did extremely well, the first two being long-running # 1 albums in the UK Albums Chart.

John " The Beast " Mugabi ( born March 4, 1960 ) is a former boxer and world light middleweight champion.

*, a light cruiser of World War II, recommissioned in 1960 as the guided missile cruiser CLG-8, with service in the Vietnam War before decommissioning in 1969.

In 1960, the art historian Kenneth Clark made the point that the success of the composition is a result first and foremost of the accurate handling of light and shade:

Despite this, by 1960 the value produced by heavy industry matched that of light industry, and food processing for export grew rapidly.

During 1960 – 1980 a HVEC EN tandem accelerator was used by nuclear physics for light ion research.

Julian Jackson ( born September 12, 1960, U. S. Virgin Islands ) is a retired professional boxer and former three-time world champion in the light middleweight and middleweight divisions.

On November 23, 1960, race car driver Ted Hogan and friend Bruce Tanner died when Hogan's light plane travelling from Oshawa Airport to the Island Airport crashed into Lake Ontario near Highland Creek in Scarborough, Ontario.

The church bell came from HMNZS Black Prince, a light cruiser which served the Royal New Zealand Navy with distinction until it was decommissioned in 1960.

During John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential election campaign Kennan wrote to the future president to offer some suggestions on how his administration should improve the country's standing in the world, in light of Soviet and Chinese efforts to break down the Americans and their Western alliances.

From 1960 – 1962 the Blessed Sacrament Chapel was decorated in a traditional, early Christian, style with the mosaics being predominantly pale pink in order to afford a sense of light and space.

In the period between 1960 and 1990, the country consolidated its development basis by creating light industrial complex, laying the foundation for mining and heavy industries and establishing new industrial and urban centers throughout the country.

Relying on a 1960 HSMB decision that naming national historic sites outside Canada should be avoided, and in light of policy that Events and Persons outside the country may be designated, it decided that Dochet Island had been designated a national historic event in 1968.

The Ford Zodiac Motorway Patrol Car ( 419 ) was introduced in August 1960 and was finished in white with a plastic aerial fitted to the front wing, a blue light attached to the roof, a ' Police ' decal on the bonnet and a vac-formed interior detailing rescue equipment in the luggage compartment and in June 1962 the Oldsmobile Super 88 County Sheriff car ( 237 ) was added to the range.

His career soon suffered a massive downturn when he was involved in the payola scandal of 1960.

* 1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.

In 1958, he was part of a team of Le Devoir reporters unveiling the natural gas scandal, leading to the formation of the Salvas Commission, soon after the election of 1960.

Richard Alan Causey ( born 9 January 1960 ) is one of the prominent figures in the Enron accounting scandal.

After brief ventures in Cuba and Colorado, he was involved ( not criminally ) with a bank embezzlement scandal in Sheldon, Iowa ( 1960 ).

While touring Australia in May 1960 with the Mouseketeers, Holdridge was involved in a sex scandal just before her 16th birthday with local teen singer " Lucky Starr ," who was 19.

The scandal of Buckley's death, attributed at least partly to his loss of the card, led to the removal of Kennedy in 1960 and the abolition of the cabaret card system by 1967, some 7 years later.

In 1960, Stan Freberg did a parody on the Payola Scandal, by calling it " Old Payola Roll Blues ", a two sided single, where the promoter gets an ordinary teenager, named Clyde Ankle, to record a song, for Obscurity Records, entitled " High School OO OO ", and then tries to offer the song to a Jazz radio station with phony deals that the Disc Jockey just won't buy it.

Freberg also provided the voice of Sam, the orange cat paired with Sylvester in the Academy Award-winning Mouse and Garden ( 1960 ).

What made these new location figures particularly impressive was the fact that although 1960 was a year of mild business recession throughout the nation, Rhode Island scored marked progress in new industry, new plants, and new jobs.

During the year 1960, this office supplied 954 visitors with information related to foreign and domestic commerce, and made 73 field visits.

Under this Agreement the first annual review of rice availabilities will be made in August 1960.

Very recently, observations have been made at 8-mm wave length with a reflector 22 meters in diameter with a resultant beam width of only about 2' ( Amenitskii, Noskova, and Salomonovich, 1960 ).

The first test mailing ( to 14 companies ) was made in June, 1960.

The second test mailing ( to 100 companies ) was made in July, 1960.

The final mailing of the questionnaire was made late in August, 1960, to 4,900 firms consisting of 3,450 from the AIA list and 1,450 from the TR list.

how little we know of what there is to be known is made humiliatingly clear by Mr. White in `` The Making Of The President 1960 ''.

The Missileer project was cancelled in December 1960, but in the early 1960s Navy made the next interceptor attempt with the F-111B, and they needed a new missile design.

The first benzodiazepine, chlordiazepoxide ( Librium ), was discovered accidentally by Leo Sternbach in 1955, and made available in 1960 by Hoffmann – La Roche, which has also marketed diazepam ( Valium ) since 1963.

In 1960, Lane made the trade that would define his tenure in Cleveland when he dealt slugging right fielder and fan favorite Rocky Colavito to the Detroit Tigers for Harvey Kuenn just before Opening Day in.

In 1960 Marker made Description d ' un combat, a documentary on the State of Israel which reminisces on the country's past and future.

Most imperial powers had not foreseen a need to prepare their colonies for independence ; for example, Britain had given limited self-rule to India and Sri Lanka, while treating British Somaliland as little more than a trading post, while all major decisions for French colonies were made in Paris and Belgium prohibited any self-government up until it suddenly granted independence to its colonies in 1960.

Shortly thereafter, Kirk Douglas made public Trumbo's credit for the screenplay for Spartacus ( 1960 ), an event which has been cited as the beginning of the end of the blacklist.

The various efforts made by ONUC to retrain the ANC from August 1960 to their effective end in June 1963 are described in Arthur House's book The UN in the Congo: The Civilian Operations, pages 145-155.

Katayama was made Vice President of the Nissan North American subsidiary in 1960, and as long as he was involved in decision making, both as North American Vice President from 1960 to 1965, and then President of Nissan Motor Company – USA from 1965 to 1975, the cars were sold as Datsuns.

This term was first used by AT & T in commerce on July 5, 1960 and then was introduced to the public on November 18, 1963, when the first push-button telephone was made available to the public.

DKW vehicles were also made in Argentina from 1960 through 1969 by IASF S. A. ( Industria Automotriz Santa Fe Sociedad Anónima ) in the city of Sauce Viejo, Santa Fe.

As the dacoits flourished through the 1950s-1970s, they were theme was several films made in the era, starting with Ganga Jamuna ( 1961 ) and Raj Kapoor ’ s Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai ( 1960 ), and Sunil Dutt's classic, Mujhe Jeene Do ( 1963 ).

Previous to the 1960 change, the ' Improved Lunar Ephemeris ' had already been made available in terms of ephemeris time for the years 1952-1959 ( computed by W J Eckert from Brown's theory with modifications recommended by Clemence ( 1948 )).

Efforts to find such evidence have been made since 1960, and several are ongoing.

The result was The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse ( 1960 ), made in a hurry and with a relatively small budget.

* 1960 – In France, Kelly was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

However, in November 1960, Holt made one of the few major missteps of his career.