-- The Gov. Jimmie H. Davis administration appears to face a difficult year in 1961, with the governor's theme of peace and harmony subjected to severe stresses.

The new year might see some house-cleaning, either genuine or token, depending upon developments, to give Davis an opportunity to combat some of these criticisms.

The following year, Treasures, an album of covers of 1960s and ' 70s hits was released, and featured a diverse collection of material, including songs by Mac Davis, Pete Seeger, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell.

Davis quickly apologized for the poorly timed comic strip, claiming that it had been written a year in advance and that both his brother and son were veterans.

* Davis required the struggling developer to produce eight titles a year.

That same year, Davis met Varina Banks Howell, then 17 years old, whom his brother Joseph had invited for the Christmas season at Hurricane plantation.

He had not served a year when he resigned ( in September 1851 ) to run for the governorship of Mississippi on the issue of the Compromise of 1850, which Davis opposed.

In this capacity, Davis gave Congress four annual reports ( in December of each year ), as well as an elaborate one ( submitted on February 22, 1855 ) on various routes for the proposed Transcontinental Railroad.

Davis was indicted for treason a year later.

That same year, Davis was hired as president of the Carolina Life Insurance Company in Memphis, Tennessee.

Hewitt played only Davis Cup matches for the remainder of the year, recording five-set wins over Roger Federer and Juan Carlos Ferrero in the semifinals and final respectively, as Australia went on to win the Davis Cup.

During this time, Sonny Stitt tried to persuade him to join the Tiny Bradshaw band, then passing through town, but Davis ' mother insisted that he finish his final year of high school.

None of these musicians, with the exception of Davis, had received a great deal of exposure before that time ; Chambers, in particular, was very young ( 19 at the time ), a Detroit player who had been on the New York scene for only about a year, working with the bands of Bennie Green, Paul Quinichette, George Wallington, J. J. Johnson, and Kai Winding.

With this revamped formation, Davis began a year during which the sextet performed and toured extensively and produced a record ( 1958 Miles, also known as 58 Sessions ).

On returning to the United States later that year, ever the musical entrepreneur, Davis ( at Jackie DeShannon's urging ) was instrumental in getting The Byrds signed to Columbia Records.

" MGM released Davis from her contract in 1952 ; she sought a broader range of parts, but also married Reagan, keeping her professional name as Davis, and had her first child that year.

The first landing was probably just over a year later when American Captain John Davis, a sealer, set foot on the ice.

Only slightly more than a year later, the first landing on the Antarctic mainland was arguably by the American Captain John Davis, a sealer, who claimed to have set foot there on 7 February 1821, though this is not accepted by all historians.

All This and Heaven Too ( 1940 ) was the most financially successful film of Davis's career to that point, while The Letter ( 1940 ) was considered " one of the best pictures of the year " by The Hollywood Reporter, and Davis won admiration for her portrayal of an adulterous killer, a role originated by famed actress Katharine Cornell.

The same year, Davis refused the title role in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), a role for which Joan Crawford won an Academy Award, and instead made The Corn Is Green ( 1945 ) based on a play by Emlyn Williams.

The following year, Davis was cast as the lead in an Aaron Spelling sitcom, The Decorator.

In a film retrospective that celebrated the films and stars of 1939, Life concluded that Davis was the most significant actress of her era, and highlighted Dark Victory ( 1939 ) as one of the most-important films of the year.

Garson starred with Joan Crawford in When Ladies Meet in 1941, and that same year became a major box office star with the sentimental Technicolor drama, Blossoms in the Dust, which brought her the first of five consecutive Best Actress Oscar nominations, tying Bette Davis ' 1938-42 record, a record that still stands.

Last year a boy he knows and helped in Journalism won the Thoroughbred Racing Ass'n Scholarship which is worth $10,000.

Also that year Endurance Specialty, a Bermuda-based underwriting operation that Aon helped to establish in November 2001 along with other investors, went public.

With over 30 million people worldwide today suffering Alzheimer's Disease each year, the study at UCLA helped discover that ongoing stimulation of the entorhinal cortex wasn't a necessary means to boost one's memory.

Agustín de Iturbide, the general who helped secure Mexican independence from Spanish rule, was proclaimed Emperor Agustín I in 12 July 1822, but was overthrown by the Plan of Casa Mata the next year.

This marriage, and Francisco Bayeu's membership of the Royal Academy of Fine Art ( from the year 1765 ) helped Goya to procure work as a painter of designs to be woven by the Royal Tapestry Factory.

Unlike many of its more export-dependent neighbors, it has managed to skirt the recession, helped by strong domestic demand ( which makes up about two-thirds of the economy ) and a government fiscal stimulus package of about 1. 4 % of GDP, announced earlier this year.

Strong international alliances would also have helped validate his military coup that year over the Omride king, Joram.

Byron Leftwich enjoyed a solid year in 2004, helped by strong performances from holdovers Fred Taylor and Jimmy Smith.

That same year he helped form the Speculum Musicae.

The next year Senator John F. Kennedy helped fund the program, which trained some 70 % of the top leaders of the new nation, including the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, environmentalist Wangari Maathai.

His paper on quantum mechanics, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society in 1936, helped win him a teaching position at Edinburgh the following year.

Hewitt's win helped him finish the year as world no.

Goldfarb hit upon the basic idea while working on a primitive document management system intended for law firms in 1969, and helped invent IBM GML later that same year.

While trade between the two countries fell sharply after World War I, trade agreements signed in the mid-1920s helped to increase trade to 433 million Reichsmarks per year by 1927.

That same year, Honorius helped Conan III, Duke of Brittany, bring one of his rebellious vassals to heel.

Both movies contained the Bill Haley & His Comets hit " Rock Around the Clock ", which first entered the British charts in early 1955 – four months before it reached the US pop charts – topped the British charts later that year and again in 1956, and helped identify rock and roll with teenage delinquency.

On October 10, 2004, in a session held by the Transitional Federal Parliament ( TFP ), former Puntland President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was elected as President of the succeeding Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ), an interim federal administrative body that he had helped establish earlier in the year.

Israeli occupation of Lebanon until May 2000, the breakdown of peace negotiations between Syria and Israel that same year, and intensifying Arab / Israeli tensions since the start of the second Palestinian uprising in September 2000 have helped delay full implementation of the Taif Accords.

Robinson found the young student " a very hard worker who really focused on his drawing " and someone who " could work well with other writers as well as write his own stories and create his own characters ", and he helped Ditko acquire a scholarship for the following year.

Samuel Eliot Morison wrote that had Marshall carried out his constitutional duties, assumed the presidency, and made the concessions necessary for the passage of the League of Nations treaty in late 1920, the United States would have been much more involved in European affairs and could have helped prevent the rise of Adolf Hitler, which began in the following year.

Gretzky captured the Lou Kaplan Trophy as rookie of the year, and helped the Oilers to first overall in the league.

He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in August 1942, telling his parents that he was doing the work of three people and expected to be a brigadier within a year or two, and in that role helped plan the Second Battle of El Alamein, having previously helped plan the attack on Rommel's supply lines.

During 1972, the same year he again spoke publicly of his opposition to the immigration of Ugandan Asians, Powell was also defeated in his struggle against the European Communities Bill, which helped prepare the UK to join the common market, which he had spent three years campaigning to prevent from happening.

The following year passage of the Voting Rights Act helped secure suffrage for all citizens.