Kansas City Athletics and the Chicago White Sox, the Sox scored 11 runs in the seventh inning on only one base hit, and went on to win 20–6. John Callison singled to bring in two players who had reached base on Athletics' errors. After the bases were loaded, eight other players (including Callison) scored from third base by a player being walked, while another scored from third after a batter was struck by a pitch. In 1955, Florence Houteff, whose husband Victor had founded the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Texas, had predicted that God would establish the Kingdom of Palestine on April 22, 1959. The prophecy failed, but the Davidians continued, dying in a fire at Waco in 1993. Norman Rosen filed a patent for the mesh crib bumper, designed to prevent infant suffocation by providing an alternative to the traditional cloth or vinyl sides within a crib. Rosen would receive U.S. Patent No. 3,018,492 on January 30, 1962, for his invention. In a meeting at Langley, NASA officials concluded that the tower configuration was the best escape system for the Mercury spacecraft and development would proceed using this concept. However, limited studies of alternate configurations would continue. The second of two recording dates of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue at Columbia Records' 30th Street Studio in New York City. Born: Ryan Stiles, American comedian; in Seattle April 23, 1959 (Thursday) On April 23 and 24, a meeting was held at Langley to coordinate the activities of individuals who would be engaged in handling, reducing, and analyzing data received from the Big Joe spacecraft. Procedures for data pickup and for supplying the information to the appropriate installation were established. A majority of the data reduction workload was carried out by the Lewis Research Center and the Space Task Group. The press secretary for Ernesto de la Guardia, the President of Panama, charged that American actor John Wayne was financing an attempt by Roberto Arias to overthrow the government there. Wayne dismissed the accusations as ridiculous, and noted, "Roberto never talked politics, and I never heard him say anything about overthrowing the Panamanian government." April 24, 1959 (Friday) The 34 Shan States were merged into one region by the government of Burma (now Myanmar). The bond graph was invented, described as "one of the most effective and most elegant tools for modeling system dynamics". DeMarquis D. Wyatt, Assistant to the