Since 1960, when the big pumps at the head of the California Aqueduct in the Delta began their operation, the outflow of fresh water into the Pacific has been reduced to a trickle leaving the fish confused as to where to go, resulting in many generations dying off because they have not been able to find their way upstream.

Other chains caught on, and after Galvani lost out to Tesco's Jack Cohen in 1960 to buy the 212 Irwin's chain, the sector underwent a large amount of consolidation, resulting in ' the big four ' dominant UK retailers of today: Tesco, Asda ( owned by Wal-Mart ), Sainsbury's and Morrisons.

In 1960, because of this discrepancy between fact and fiction, the part of the Mae Klong which passes under the famous bridge was renamed as the Khwae Yai ( Thai แควใหญ ่, English " big tributary ").

" Racially integrated " groups with both black and white performers included The Del-Vikings, who hit big in 1957 with " Come Go With Me " and " Whispering Bells " and The Crests whose " The Angels Listened In " appeared in 1960.

Christy's Pizza is the local favorite since 1960, but the commercial chain scene is also big in Vandalia.

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

After several feature film roles, including Sayonara with Marlon Brando, Garner got his big break playing the role of professional gambler Bret Maverick in the comedy Western series Maverick from 1957 to 1960.

However, Lark sales began to drop precipitously after the big three manufacturers introduced their own compact models in 1960, and the situation became critical once the so-called " senior compacts " debuted for 1961.

The country's capital, Brasília, was a planned city built in the middle of the vast empty center of Brazil, at the time ( 1960 ) thousands of kilometers from any big city.

* In 1960 Lancia's flat-four water-cooled engine debuted for the Lancia Flavia model, first Italian front-wheel drive car, like 1500 cc coupé version and during the years become a 2000 cc with when was mounted the first electronic Injection by Bosch in 1970 in a flat four engine, Lancia also rebuild a new big flat-four engine in 1976, 2484 cc, for his upper size model Lancia Gamma.

The following era, from about 1930 to 1960, has been called the " Golden Age of Hawaiian music ", when popular styles were adapted for orchestras and big bands, and Hawaiian performers like Lani McIntire, John Kameaaloha Almeida and Sol Hoopii became mainstream stars.

In 1960, Blassie returned to Strongbow's promotion in Los Angeles where he was a big star for the World Wrestling Association of southern California, drawing many fans to the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles.

His big break was landing the starring role in José Quintero's 1956 off-Broadway-theatre production and the later 1960 television film of O ' Neill's The Iceman Cometh, portraying the philosophical salesman Hickey ; he won an Obie Award for his stage performance.

In the latter role he was angered that secret negotiations between the British, French and Israelis in advance of the Suez invasion in 1956 took place at Sèvres without his knowledge, and, in certain respects, he was sidelined by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at the Paris " big power " summit in 1960.

With its oil, a fifth of the world's known uranium ( Gabonese uranium supplied France's nuclear bombs, which French president Charles de Gaulle tested in the Algerian deserts in 1960 ), big iron and manganese deposits, and plenty of timber, Gabon was always important to France.

His big theatrical break came in 1960 with the enormously successful original Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie.

In 1960, John Frankenheimer, a friend of Pollack's, asked him to come to Los Angeles in order to work as a dialogue coach for the child actors on Frankenheimer's first big picture, The Young Savages.

Jazz in the Space Age ( 1960 ) was an even more ambitious big band album, featuring the unusual dual piano voicings of Bill Evans and Paul Bley.

In 1960 Checker's cover of Hank Ballard's " The Twist " became Parkway's first big hit.

In May 1960, Kom Van Dat Dak Af was a big success in both the Netherlands and Belgium.

< big > 2 </ big >-Roberto Rivas, defender ( 1960 – 70 )

The next big change was 1959's regulating decree No. 2883, which, along with many others between 1960 and 1972, added more material into the structure of the university and legalized all of its activities, requiring students to take part as administrators within the different faculties.

His 1960 season wasn't a big improvement over the previous year as Pearson only saw action in 48 games for the Orioles.

Though it was a great relief when the big brains on these shows turned out to be frauds and phonies, it did irreparable damage to the ego of the editor and many another intelligent, well-informed American.

When all has been said, however, the big branch store remains a major break with history in the development of American retailing.

Over the first five frames, Jack Fisher, the big righthander who figures to be in the middle of Oriole plans for a drive on the 1961 American League pennant, held the A's scoreless while yielding three scattered hits.

* 1914 – Ralph Marterie, American trumpet player and big band leader ( d. 1978 )

Possibly as a result of Griffith's influence, 1915 was a big year for symbolism, allegories, and parables in the American cinema.

The piece premiered first in New York rather than London, in an ( unsuccessful ) attempt to secure the American copyright, and was another big success with both critics and audiences.

As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s and on down through West Coast jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz in various forms, soul jazz, jazz fusion and jazz rock, smooth jazz, jazz-funk, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, Indo jazz, M-Base, nu jazz, urban jazz and other ways of playing the music.

The band's American breakthrough came with the third album, Travelling Without Moving in 1996, which yielded two big hits, " Virtual Insanity " and " Cosmic Girl ".

He is well known for using influences from American comics, television, and films in his work, and describes himself as a big fan of Batman and Star Wars.

Growing up in Venice he developed a particular love for American cartoons and Disney comics, that, at the time, were published in the big format of the Topolino Giornale which was then printing now classic Floyd Gottfredson's stories.

** George Steinbrenner, American big businessman and then baseball team owner ( d. 2010 )

* August 23 – Mickey McMahan, American big band musician ( d. 2008 )

* British Invasion, which saw a number of 2000 AD artists and writers working for the big American firms during the 1980s.

Under Paley's guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States and then one of the big three American broadcast television networks.

Adult ducks are fast fliers, but may be caught on the water by large aquatic predators including big fish such as the North American muskie and the European pike.

In October 1926, Goldkette's " Famous Fourteen ," as they came to be called, opened at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City opposite the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, one of the East Coast's outstanding African American big bands.

Because of these roots and their lower budgets, Hong Kong action films typically center on physical acrobatics, martial arts fight scenes, stylized gun-play, and dangerous stunt work performed by leading stunt actors, while American action films typically feature big explosions, car chases, stunt doubles and CGI special effects technology.

They helped the American Expeditionary Forces win several key battles in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, during the final big German push of the war.

His big break came when he received top billing in the comedy spoof of spy movies Top Secret !, where he played an American rock and roll star.

Depending on the South American region, the rhea is known locally as ñandú guazu ( Guaraní, meaning big spider, most probably in relation to their habit of opening and lowering alternatively wings when they run ), ema ( Portuguese ), suri ( Quechua ), or choique ( Mapudungun ).

In 1930 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his roles in The Love Parade ( 1929 ) and The Big Pond ( 1930 ), which secured his first big American hit, Livin ' in the Sunlight, Lovin ' in the Moonlight.

The Big Pond gave Chevalier his first big American hit songs, " Livin ' in the Sunlight, Lovin ' in the Moonlight " with words and music by Al Lewis and Al Sherman, plus " A New Kind of Love " ( or " The Nightingales ").

The first Persian Gulf War in 1991 was a watershed event for CNN that catapulted the channel past the " big three " American networks for the first time in its history, largely due to an unprecedented, historical scoop: CNN was the only news outlet with the ability to communicate from inside Iraq during the initial hours of the Coalition bombing campaign, with live reports from the al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad by reporters Bernard Shaw, John Holliman, and Peter Arnett.

African " Afrobeat " big bands have existed from 1970 to the present when Fela Kuti of Nigeria, fused big band jazz with Yoruba tribal rhythms, highlife, and American James Brown funk music.