Articles related to "1956"

Mercedes drivers Fangio and Moss found themselves without a drive after the German company withdrew in 1955. Fangio went to Ferrari and Moss to Maserati.

The 1956 Formula 1 title was decided in the final race. An unselfish Peter Collins gifted his team-mate and title rival Juan-Manuel Fangio his car.

Ending the Korean War, achieving a budget surplus, and presiding over a period of increasing prosperity enabled Dwight D. Eisenhower to win over 57% of the vote in 1956.

In 1953, Packard revived the "Clipper" name, applied it to a lower-priced range and then spun it off as a distinct nameplate. The plan failed, but not because of the car.

The race alternated between Silverstone and Aintree, while Stirling Moss made his final British GP appearance.

From Don Newcombe in 1956 to Steve Stone and Steve Carlton in 1980, the Cy Young award honors baseball's best pitchers. Here are the winners over the first 25 years.

Although the capricious actions of Egypt's Nasser were in response to poor decisions made by Secretary of State Dulles, the U.S. stood firmly against British aggression.

Determined to destroy the white whale that cost him his leg, Captain Ahab (Gregory Peck), relentlessly pursues the scarred, white leviathan, Moby Dick.

Without his Game 3 home run, the Yankees would have been down, three games to none. No team has ever come back from a 3-0 deficit in games to win the World Series.

This low budget horror/sci-fi film from the 1950s is proof that fear and terror can be instilled in a viewer not through creating special effects, but by creating a mood.

American Motors inherited the Rambler and Ambassador names from Nash. Ambassador had generally been at Nash's top level and would fill that role in the new company.

It is unusual for the visiting team to win the seventh game of the World Series, but it happened every time from 1955-1958.

Serialized in Astounding in 1956, Heinlein was already overdue a Hugo on his way to becoming SFWA Grand Master, even though only only two such awards had been made.

Federal transportation subsidies meant to improve urban mobility inadvertently created our Auto-Nation with the car as the centerpiece of urban transportation planning.

Israel fought four wars with its Arab neighbors. Every time Israel's very survival was at stake.

The New York Times reported that the decision did NOT foreshadow a shift to another city, but did acknowledge that the team could move at some future date.

In Oscar history, many fine actresses were never given Academy Awards for best actress. A few were eventually given other awards for their contributions to film.

Absent is Blue Suede Shoes, yet this list of most popular Elvis hits is a stirring collection of personal love songs from (Let me Be) Your Teddy Bear to Return To Sender.

Whether Calais, de Ville or Fleetwood, a 1965 Cadillac made its point without ostentation as it walked away from the era of tailfins.

In 2007, Alex Rodriguez had an outstanding season that compares favorably with the best of Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, DiMaggio, Mattingly, and Dickey.

It's tough to win a batting title, a home run crown, or an RBI championship, but it's much harder to win all three in one season. Here are the 12 players who've done it.

Indiana is the last of the nine Division I men's basketball teams to go undefeated and win the title since the inception of the NCAA tournament in 1939.

In May, Helsinki in Finland will host Europe's biggest musical competition. Expect camp performances, biased voting, dreadful ballads and great entertainment.

For six days in the spring of 1967 Arab and Israeli forces clashed ending with a major Israeli victory. How did Israel prepare for the war and win so decisively?

A 180-degree rear view mirror, a wind-defying umbrella and a replica of a 1956 vending machine are among the exciting new products offering safety, convenience and fun.

The Strada delle Dolomiti follow a series of mountain passes through wild landscapes and Alpine villages of the Dolomites, in 2009 named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson is frequently described as one of Canada's most influential people of the twentieth century.

Joe Nuxhall made history as the youngest player in the modern era, and then surpassed that achievement with his success as a color analyst in the radio broadcast booth.

Newly elected President Dwight David Eisenhower found himself facing a continuing war in Korea and the beginnings of what would become the Cold War.

From Johnny Podres to Don Clendenon, here are the guys who came through at the biggest time of the baseball year.

It has been argued that beer, not bread, was the real reason early humans decided to form settlements.

Women the world over love the classic lines of a Hermès Kelly bag. Named after Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco, the Kelly is one of the greatest bags of our time.

Warner Bros. has announced the latest (and possibly final) Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol.6, due October 21st.

Full first team line up for Manchester Utd and Manchester City together with key statistics 2009/10

A mediocre Yankees righthander, in full view of America's baseball fans, makes history by retiring every batter in a World Series game.

In the 1930s, Texas' poor struggled to adjust to rapidly increasing unemployment and homelessness plus the emotional scares that lasted long after the economy recovered.

From Howdy Doody to Dragnet, the Golden Age of Television is being honored on a sheet of 20 commemorative postage stamps on Aug. 11 in Hollywood.

Billie Holiday learned to sing Jazz, as a child, by listening to the recordings of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith. She possessed an innate sense of jazz phrasing.

Gertrude Berg (1899-1966) created, wrote and starred in, The Goldbergs, the landmark but forgotten radio show about a U.S. Jewish immigrant life in the 1930s and 1940s.

Brief biography of Italo Calvino, one of Italy's influential writers, famous for fairy tales and fantasy writing and the novel If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.

Life and works of Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, famous for his poem "Platero y yo."

Pensive, Ponder, and Needles completed the second father-son triple Kentucky Derby championship. Reigh Count, Count Fleet, and Count Turf accomplished the first triple.

Jockey Bill "Willie" Shoemaker had more Kentucky Derby mounts than his contemporary rival, Bill Hartack, and Eddie Arcaro, who was finishing his career in the 1960s.

An African-American actress nominated for her role in a musical and a man who was nominated twice as best actor after he had died were among the unusual Oscar highlights.

Sacha Gordine and Bugatti both tried Formula One in the 1950s. Between them they managed a solitary Grand Prix start.

Named after the pioneering pitcher from the turn of last century, the Cy Young Award is an award given each fall to the best MLB pitchers.

Six members of the 2008-09 Champions League winners Barcelona head the 30-man nominee list for the Ballon d'Or - the European Footballer of the Year Award.

Everything you need to know about the perfect game. Well, almost.

Here's a listing of all the shorts and featurettes packed into the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5 from Warner Home Video.

Big name solo artists like Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Chuck Berry have about 3 times as many top ten most-requested hits from the 1950s as groups like the Coasters.