Marquis Who's Who Millennium Magazine

525 A Marquis Who's Who Magazine 1 9 5 9 Rosa Parks, a seamstress turned civil rights activist, refuses to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama 1955 Bill Haley & His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock," an early classic of U.S. rock 'n' roll 1957 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel," his first for RCA Records, which topped U.S. charts 1956 John Kenneth Galbraith, a Canadian economist and author, pens the book, "The Affluent Society," which explores the ideas of private wealth and public poverty 1958 Christopher Cockerell designs the first prototype of the hovercraft, which crosses the English Channel 1959