Chelsea had their first major success in 1955, when they won the league championship, and won various cup competitions during the 1960s, 1970s, 1990s and 2000s.

Japanese kickboxing originates in the 1960s, with competitions held since the 1960s.

This was further explored during the early 1960s, when competitions between karate and muay thai began, which allowed for rule modifications to take place.

By the 1960s, tracks of 333. 3m length were commonly used for international competitions ( eg: the Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome used for track cycling events at the 1968 Summer Olympics, and Leicester's Saffron Lane velodrome used at the 1970 and 1982 Track Cycling World Championships ).

Skiing stopped until the 1960s, when a new slope was built, and competitions were held until 1971.

It was particularly successful in band and boys ' basketball in the mid-to-late 1960s, winning county tournaments and band competitions around West Tennessee and the state.

In the 1960s and 1970s, he expanded the scope of his research to include alliance policy and nuclear nonproliferation, ballistic missile defense, innovation in military technology, peacetime military competitions, and military potential and economics of civil nuclear energy.

By the 1960s, advancements in two-stroke engine technology meant that the heavier, four-stroke machines were relegated to niche competitions.

With improved national transportation trends by the 1960s, drum and bugle corps proliferated, both in the sheer numbers of both new and established corps across North America, in the many competitions held then, and in the stadium attendance counts.

In the club's heyday in the 1960s and 70s, Hendon saw remarkable success in cup competitions, with the team's best ever run in the FA Cup and good success in the FA Amateur Cup.

The success of Grange in competitions through the 1960s signalled that the New World had a genuinely world class wine for the first time since Constantia.

Since 1960s, Brazil began to develop more mature national competitions which competed with the state and regional tournaments for supporter's attention.

Overall, the " Green Machine " of the 1960s had won three American Legion and four VFW National Championships, and did not finish lower than third place in sixteen national finals competitions ( VFW, American Legion, and CYO ).

France's basketball team seemingly declined gradually to disappear almost completely from the two major world competitions during the 1960s and 1970s.

Following the change in name to the Football Association of Malaysia in the early 1960s, Tunku Abdul Rahman continued to play a big role in the development of the game through various youth competitions.

St Stythians Band ( formerly St Stythians Silver Band ) was founded in 1928 and became very successful in competitions in the 1960s and 1970s ; during the summer months it gives weekly concerts at the Gyllyngdune Gardens in Falmouth.

Cruising along Woodward reached its peak in the mid 1960s, with muscle car competitions that were covered by journalists from Car and Driver, Motor Trend, and CBS World News Roundup.

As the format of Youth for Christ activities changed in the late 1960s, Bible quiz teams began to represent individual churches, and groups of churches from the same denomination began to hold competitions limited to those denominations apart from the Youth for Christ supervision.

By the late 1960s, he was the manager and producer of Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, who would become the two main songwriters of ABBA.

But by then, the Chargers fell on hard times ; Gillman, who had returned as general manager, stepped down in 1971, and many of the Charger players from the 1960s had already either retired or had been traded.

Anecdotal evidence suggest that racism was a key factor — in his book on the history of Australian radio, author and broadcaster Wayne Mac recounts that when a local Melbourne DJ of the 1960s played the new Ike and Tina Turner single " River Deep Mountain High " it was immediately pulled from the playlist by the station's program manager for being " too noisy and too black ".

Headed by Ben Toney, who had been the original program manager for Big L in the 1960s, the new company also had links to Don Pierson who had founded the station in 1964.

* Keith Albarn, manager of Soft Machine and father of Damon Albarn, taught art at Walthamstow Art College in the 1960s

During the 1960s, McCall worked as a high school teacher and a bank manager.

It was while at Liverpool Rep that he met his future wife Ann Davies, who was acting as stage manager, and has acted on television since the 1960s.

John " Jack " Charlton, OBE, DL ( born 8 May 1935 in Ashington, Northumberland ) is an English former footballer and manager who played for Leeds United in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and was part of the England team who won the 1966 World Cup.

The Rose is a 1979 American musical drama film which tells the story of a self-destructive 1960s rock star who struggles to cope with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.

Burgess became her manager and the couple became a double act during the 1960s.

By the 1960s, a blue-collar worker earned more than a manager did in the Forties, despite the fact that his relative position within the income distribution had not changed.

In 2009, he portrayed Sam Longson, chairman of Derby County football club in the 1960s and 1970s, in the film The Damned United ; the starring character in the film was football manager Brian Clough, played by Michael Sheen.

In September 2007 Marriott, along with the other members of the Small Faces and manager Don Arden were honoured with a plaque unveiled in Carnaby Street, on the site of Don Arden's offices, the spiritual home of the band in the 1960s.

He later was in short order, manager for both Frank Sinatra and Harry Belafonte ( who summarily fired him ), a part owner of the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, full owner of a prominent Wall Street brokerage that bore his name, a sitting member of the New York Stock Exchange, owner of an electronics firm in Canada specializing in radio proximity artillery fuses for the US military in Vietnam, and from the late 1960s, concurrently, head of the American Psychological Association.

Ken Bates entered the picture at Oldham Athletic in the early 1960s, and along with the appointment of manager Jack Rowley, the club's fortunes turned for the better.

For example, in the 1960s, Sports Illustrated's lead football writer was Tex Maule, whose previous job had been as public relations director for Pete Rozelle, the general manager of the NFL's Rams.

The station's general manager, Mark Kanov, has worked at the station since the late 1960s announced his retirement for late July 2008.

Before the 1960s, and in some rare cases today, a person with the general manager title in sports has also borne responsibility for the non-player operations of the ballclub, such as ballpark administration and broadcasting.

* Justin de Villeneuve, 1960s British celebrity, boyfriend and manager of the model Twiggy

This situation was typified in the late 1950s and early 1960s by the three dominant figures of British pop: publisher and manager Larry Parnes ( one of the first people to combine publishing with artist management ), composer Lionel Bart and the managing director of EMI, Sir Joseph Lockwood ( 1904 – 91 ).

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Roxon became close friends with critic and rock manager Danny Fields, Village Voice journalist Blair Sabol, musician and writer Lenny Kaye ( later the guitarist in Patti Smith's band and compiler of the original Nuggets LP ), photographers Linda McCartney and Leee Black Childers and Australian academic, author and feminist Germaine Greer.

Edwin " Eddie " Gray ( born 17 January 1948 in Glasgow, Scotland ) was a cultured winger who was an integral member of the legendary Leeds United football team of the 1960s and 1970s, later twice becoming the club's manager.

Michael John " Johnny " Giles ( born 6 November 1940, in Ormond Square, Dublin, Ireland ) is a former association footballer and manager best remembered for his time as a midfielder with Leeds United in the 1960s and 1970s.

He also served as the borough's manager during his time away from the legislature in the 1960s.