Labour's failure to win the General election of 1959 and its rejection of unilateralism in 1961 upset the plans of the CND leadership and, although CND retained the support of a significant minority of the population, from this point onwards its prospects of success began to fade.

The election of his daughter Indira as Congress President in 1959 aroused criticism for alleged nepotism, although actually Nehru had disapproved of her election, partly because he considered it smacked of " dynastism "; he said, indeed it was " wholly undemocratic and an undesirable thing ", and refused her a position in his cabinet.

Morton again led the opposition to the ballot at the 21 March 1959 election, which resulted in an overall gain of three seats but the loss of two seats to Labor.

Singaporean politics have been dominated by the People's Action Party ( PAP ) since the 1959 general election when Lee Kuan Yew became Singapore's first prime minister ( Singapore was then a self-governing state within the British Empire ).

Pope John XXIII, however, gave notice of his intention to convene the Council on 25 January 1959, less than three months after his election in October 1958.

* May 12 – Nepal holds its first multiparty legislative election since 1959.

In the Dutch general election of 1956 they increased their total, receiving thirteen seats, but were still kept out of government until the Dutch general election of 1959, which were held early because of cabinet crisis.

The Father of the House is not necessarily the sitting MP with the earliest date of first election: Sir Peter Tapsell was first elected in 1959, and is the only remaining 1950s MP, but lost his seat in 1964 and was out of Parliament until 1966 ; this meant that Alan Williams was Father of the House until his retirement at the 2010 general election by virtue of his continuous service since the 1964 general election.

Macmillan later appointed Heath Minister of Labour, a Cabinet Minister-as Chief Whip Heath had attended Cabinet but had not been formally a member-after winning the October 1959 election.

1959 election in Merioneth

Its share of the vote increased from 0. 7 % in the 1951 general election to 3. 1 % in 1955 and 5. 2 % in 1959.

In the 1959 election, the party contested a majority of Welsh seats for the first time.

The result was successful for the PAP under Lee Kuan Yew's control who won the 1959 election, and has held power ever since.

The 1959 election was also the first election to produce a fully elected parliament and a cabinet wielding powers of full internal self-government.

He later became First Lord of the Admiralty under Eden in 1956, and under Macmillan served as chairman of the party and campaign organiser for the 1959 general election.

Macmillan led the Conservatives to victory in the October 1959 general election, increasing his party's majority from 67 to 107 seats.

He again returned to the House of Representatives for two short periods, after the Dutch general election of 1956 and 1959.

April 6, 1959 was the first municipal election.

The first official village election was held in April 1959 at which time a new President, Harry P. Keeley, Jr., and three new Trustees were elected.

His aim became a Westminster seat, and he was eventually selected for Labour to stand for election in the Sutton Coldfield constituency but lost to the Conservative Geoffrey Lloyd in 1959.

The 1959 tour to Australia and New Zealand marked once again a very successful tour for the Lions, who only lost six of their 35 fixtures.

The PPT won the May 1957 pre-independence elections thanks to a greatly expanded franchise, and Lisette led the government of the Territorial Assembly until he lost a confidence vote on 11 February 1959.

* Pioneer P-1 ( Atlas-Able 4A, Pioneer W ), probe lost September 24, 1959

* Pioneer P-3 ( Atlas-Able 4, Atlas-Able 4B, Pioneer X ) – Lunar probe, lost in launcher failure November 26, 1959

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 chronological order others include: " I've Been Everywhere " by Hank Snow ( 1962 ) ( album of the same title ) and Johnny Cash ( 1996 ) Unchained reworked from the original 1959 Geoff Mack Australian-place-names version made popular by the singer Lucky Starr ; " Down on the Corner " ( 1969 ) by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys covered by a dozen other groups ; " Kalamazoo " ( 1995 ) by Luna on Penthouse ; " Cold Rock a Party " ( 1997 ) by MC Lyte on Bad As I Wanna B ; " Kalamazoo " a song by the rock trio Primus on the 1997 Brown Album ; " Top of the World " by Rascalz ( 1999 ) on Global Warning ; " Kalamazoo ", a song by Ben Folds Five on the 2004 EP Super D ; " 65 Miles from Kalamazoo " ( 2008 ) by R. J. Miller ( a lament for a lost Gibson guitar and a metaphor about " an old girlfriend from Kalamazoo "); and " Kalamazoo " ( 2009 ) by Mike Craver on his album Shining Down.

Short was forced to move the team to Los Angeles in 1960 ; the club had lost $ 60, 000 in the first half of the 1959 – 60 season alone.

* 1959 – R-Virginians lost to Havana

All contact with the probe was lost on 22 October 1959.

* 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.

* Most fumbles lost, season: 36, Chicago Cardinals, 1959.

In the 1959 elections the ARP lost another seat.

He lost that year to Yolande Pompey, another future world title challenger, by a second-round knockout in Birmingham, and retired in 1959.

In 1959, Queen Elizabeth II unveiled The Ottawa Memorial, a monument erected to "( commemorate ) by name, some 800 men and women who lost their lives while serving or training with the Air Forces of the Commonwealth in Canada, the West Indies and the United States and who have no known grave.

In 1959, Dion and The Belmonts were part of the historic Winter Dance Party tour that lost three performers in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa ; Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson " The Big Bopper ".

In 1959 many lives were lost as parts of Mie were devastated by the Ise-wan Typhoon, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history.

The Giants beat the Chicago Bears 47 – 7 in 1956, but lost to the Baltimore Colts in 1958 and 1959.

The German rider, Walter Stolle, lost his home and living in the Sudetenland in the aftermath of World War II, settled in Britain and set off from Essex on 25 January 1959, to cycle round the world.

Trungpa had actually started writing about Shambhala before his 1959 escape from Tibet to India, but most of those writings were lost during the escape.

His government lost a parliamentary vote of confidence in 1959, but was re-elected with majority status ( 36 of 57 seats ) in the ensuing election later in the year.

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