Karl Schenk - Department of Home Affairs (1872) Department of Finance (1872) Department of Home Affairs (1873) Political Department (1874) Department of Railway and Trade (1875 - 1877) Political Department (1878) Department of Home Affairs (1879 - 1884) Political Department (1885) Department of Home Affairs (1886 - 1895) He was president of Switzerland six times in 1865, 1871, 1874, 1878, 1885 and 1893. Predecessor: Jakob Stämpfli Successor: Eduard Müller.
Kate Greenaway - a children's book illustrator and writer. Her first book, Under The Window (1879), a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses concerning children who endlessly gathered posies, untouched by the Industrial Revolution, was a best-seller. The Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded annually by the Library Association of Great Britain to an illustrator of children's books. New techniques of photolithography enabled her delicate watercolors to be reproduced. Through the 1880s and 90s, in popularity her only rivals in the field of children's book illustration were Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott, himself also the eponym of a highly-regarded prize medal. 'Kate Greenaway' children, all of them little girls and boys too young to be put in trousers, according to the conventions of the time, were dressed in her own versions of Regency fashions, high-waisted.
Karl Pearson - 6 Further Reading Biography Karl Pearson was born in London on the 27th March 1857. He was educated privately at University College School, after which he went to King's College, Cambridge to study mathematics. He then spent part of 1879 and 1880 studying medieval and 16th-century German literature at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg - in fact, he became sufficiently knowledgeable in this field that he was offered a post in the German department at Cambridge University. His next career move was to Lincoln's Inn, where he read law until 1881 (although he never practised). After this, he returned to mathematics, deputising for the mathematics professor at King's College London in 1881 and for the professor at University College London in 1883. In 1884, he was appointed to the Goldshmid.
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs - publishing, and always in trouble with the law — though always for his words rather than for sexual offences. In 1864, his books were confiscated and banned by police in Saxony. Later the same thing happened in Berlin, and his works were banned throughout Prussia. Some of these papers have recently been found in the Prussian state archives and will be published in 2004. Already several of Ulrichs's more important works are back in print, both in German and in translation. Ulrichs was a patriotic Hanoverian, and when Prussia annexed Hanover in 1866 he was briefly imprisoned for opposing Prussian rule. The next year he left Hanover for good and moved to Munich, where he addressed the Association of German Jurists on the need to reform German laws against homosexuality. Later.
Karl Lehrs - opinions, one of the most masculine of German scholars; his enthusiasm for everything Greek led him to adhere firmly to the undivided authorship of the Iliad; comparative mythology and the symbolical interpretation of myths he regarded as a species of sacrilege. See the exhaustive article by L Friedländer in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xviii.; F Rammer in Conrad Bursian's Jahresbericht (1879); A Jung, Zur Erinnerung an Karl Lehrs (progr. Meseritz, 1880); A Ludwich edited Lehr's select correspondence (1894) and his Kleine Schriften (1902). Reference This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica..
Kentucky Derby - was Aristides in front of a crowd of 10,000 people on May 17, 1875. The speed record for the race is 1 minute 59 2/5 seconds, set by Secretariat in 1973. Year Winner 1875 Aristides 1876 Vagrant 1877 Baden Baden 1878 Day Star 1879 Lord Murphy 1880 Fonso 1881 Hindoo 1882 Apollo 1883 Leonatus 1884 Buchanan 1885 Joe Cotton 1886 Ben Ali 1887 Montrose 1888 Macbeth II 1889 Spokane 1890 Riley 1891 Kingman 1892 Azra 1893 Lookout 1894 Chant 1895 Halma 1896 Ben Brush 1897 Typhoon II 1898 Plaudit 1899 Manuel 1900 Lieutenant Gibson 1901 His Eminence 1902 Alan-a-Dale 1903 Judge Himes 1904 Elwood 1905 Agile 1906 Sir Huon 1907 Pink Star 1908 Stone Street 1909 Wintergreen 1910 Donau 1911 Meridian 1912 Worth 1913 Donerail 1914 Old Rosebud 1915 Regret 1916.
Kentucky Oaks - image of the English Oaks at Epsom Downs. The distance of that first running of the Oaks was 1 ½ miles and A.B. Lewis & Company's Vinaigrette was the winner. She earned a winning purse of $1,175 and was timed over the 12-furlong distance in 2:39 ¾. The victory by Vinaigrette launched a strong tradition for the Oaks, which - like the Derby - has been renewed each year without interruption since its inaugural running. Year Winner 1875 Vinaigrette 1876 Necy Hale 1877 Felicia 1878 Belle of Nelson 1879 Liahtunah 1880 Longitude 1881 Lucy May 1882 Katie Creel 1883 Vera 1884 Modesty 1885 Lizzie Dwyer 1886 Pure Rye 1887 Florimore 1888 Ten Penny 1889 Jewel Ban 1890 English Lady 1891 Miss Hawkins 1892 Miss Dixie 1893 Monrovia 1894 Selika 1895 Voladora.
Khyber Pass - heads northwest from near Peshawar to Kabul, and is within Pakistan's control along almost its entire length. A road was built through it in 1879 and a railroad in the 1920s. Armies have taken advantage of the pass since at least 330 BC, when Alexander the Great and his army marched through to reach India..
Kirkcudbright - Castle Douglas and Dalbeattie, in the part of Dumfries and Galloway known as the Stewartry. The Stewartry Museum was founded in 1879 and was at first based in the Town Hall until it became too small. The collection moved to a purpose-built site and contains the local and natural history of the eastern part of Galloway, formerly known as Kirkcudbrightshire and now known as the Stewartry. Britain's earliest surviving sporting trophy, the Siller Gun, is part of the collection, as are paintings by the many local artists. The Tolbooth was built between 1625 and 1629 and served not only as the tollbooth, but also the council offices, the Burgh and Sheriff courts, the criminal prison and the debtors' prison. One of its most famous prisoners was John Paul Jones, hero of.
Kirkcudbrightshire - an event which marked the beginning of the decay of Norse influence. The Galloway chiefs hesitated for a time whether to throw in their lot with the Northumbrians or with Malcolm; but language, race and the situation of their country at length induced them to become lieges of the Scottish king. By the close of the 11th century the boundary between England and Scotland was roughly delimited on what became permanent lines. The feudal system ultimately destroyed the power of the Galloway chiefs, who resisted the innovation to the last. Several of the lords or "kings" of Galloway, a line said to have been founded by Fergus, the greatest of them all, asserted in vain their independence of the Scottish crown; and in 1234 the line became extinct in the male.
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen - Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (born 1879 in Jakobshavn, died 1933) was a Greenlandic polar explorer and anthropologist. When on his first expedition in 1902-1904, "The Literature Expedition" with Jørgen Brønlund, Harald Moltke and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen to examine Inuit culture. In 1910 he established the Thule Trading Station at Cape York (Uummannaq), Greenland as a base. He went on several expeditions between 1912-1919, including travelling over the Viscount Melville Sound and crossing the Northwest Passage by dogsled. From 1921-1924 he went on his famous "Great Sledge Journey" to collect and describe Inuit songs and legends. For that effort he gained a post at the University of Copenhagen. He was also patron of the first long polar movie "SOS Iceberg" (regie: Leni Riefenstahl).
Knock - is a small town in County Mayo in Ireland where it is alleged that on August 21, 1879 the Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist appeared to local people. In the 20th century it became one of Europe's major Roman Catholic Marian shrines, alongside Lourdes and Fatima. It was visited by Pope John Paul II, a supporter of devotion to the Virgin Mary, in 1979. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The 'Apparition' 2 Reaction 3 The cultural context 4 The Pilgrimage Site 5 Knock today 6 The Prayer to 'Our Lady of Knock - Queen of Ireland' 7 See also 8.
J. N. Bronsted - N. Bronsted Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (February 22, 1879-December 17, 1947) was a Danish physical chemist. He received a degree in chemical engineering in 1899 and his Ph. D. in 1908 from the University of Copenhagen. He was immediately appointed professor of inorganic and physical chemistry at Copenhagen. In 1906 he published his first of many papers on affinity. In 1923 he introduced the protonic theory of acid-base reactions, simultaneously with the English chemist Thomas Martin Lowry. The same year, the electronic theory was proposed by Gilbert N. Lewis, but both theories are commonly used. He became known as an authority on catalysis by acids and bases. In World War II he opposed the Nazis, and in consequence he was elected to the Danish parliament in 1947, but could not take his.
January 1 - fully independent state. 1984 - AT&T is broken up into 22 independent units 1984 - Spain and Portugal enter the European Community 1986 - Aruba becomes independent of Curacao 1992 - George H. W. Bush is first President of the United States to address the Australian Parliament 1993 - Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of Slovak Republic and Czech Republic 1993 - A single market within the European Community is introduced 1994 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect 1995 - World Trade Organization goes into effect 1995 - Austria, Finland and Sweden enter the European Union 1996 - Curacao gains limited self-government 1998 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants 1999 - Euro currency introduced. 2000 - Bleen is no longer Blue and is now Green..
January 3 - New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner. 1987 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1990 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces. 1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). 1994 - An Aeroflot Tupolov TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkhutsk, Russia killing 125 including 1 on the ground 1997 - NBC's Today show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time. 2000 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published 2004 - Flight FSH604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 aboard. 2004 - Spirit,.
January 26 - 1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations. 1983 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released. 1992 - Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons. 1993 - Vaclav Havel elected President of the Czech Republic. 1994 - A man fires two blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia. 1996 - Whitewater scandal: Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before a grand jury. 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: On American television, Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. 1998 - Compaq buys Digital Equipment Corporation. 2001 - A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24. 2001 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths. Births 1781 - Achim von Arnim, poet (†.
January 28 - are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole. 1997 - Clive Davis receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1998 - Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo for $6.45 billion. 1998 - Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines. 2002 - An Ecuadoran airline Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92 Births 1706 - John Baskerville, printer, typefounder (+ 1775) 1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator. 1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, journalist (+ 1904) 1853 - Jose Marti, revolutionary (+ 1895) 1855 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the.
January 11 - of Uranus. 1805 - Michigan Territory is created. 1861 - Alabama secedes from the United States. 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post - General John McClernand and Admiral David Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union. 1867 - Benito Juarez becomes Mexican president again. 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War begins. 1908 - Grand Canyon National Monument is created. 1919 - Romania annexes Transylvania. 1922 - First successful treatment with insulin against diabetes. 1923 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments. 1935 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California. 1938 - Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank. 1942 - Japan declares war on.
James Branch Cabell - James Branch Cabell (April 14, 1879 - May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction. In his lifetime he published some fifty books, most now forgotten, but his eighth book, Jurgen, (1919) was the one that caught public attention. The eponymous hero, who considers himself a "monstrous clever fellow", embarks on a journey through ever more fantastic realms, even to hell and heaven. Everywhere he goes, he winds up seducing the local women, even the Devil's wife. The novel was denounced by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice; they attempted to bring a prosecution for obscenity. The case went on for two years before Cabell and his publishers won: the "indecencies" were double entendres that also had a perfectly decent interpretation, though it appeared that what.
January 22 - 1840 - British colonists reach New Zealand. 1863 - The January Uprising broke out in Poland, Lithunania and Belorussia. The aim of the national movement was to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation of Russia. 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Zulu troops massacre British troops at Isandhlwana. 1889 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. 1899 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation. 1901 - Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies. 1905 - 'Bloody Sunday' in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution. 1917 - World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe. 1924 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister. 1931 - Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born.
