January 12 - January 12 January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 353 days remaining (354 in leap years). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 Fiction Events 1773 - The first American museum open to the public is opened in (Charleston, South Carolina). 1777 - Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California 1838 - In order to avoid anti-Mormon persecution, Joseph Smith and his followers flee Ohio for Missouri. 1866 - Royal Aeronautical Society is formed (London). 1875 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China. 1896 - H.L. Smith takes the first x-ray photograph. 1898 - Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan..
Japan Airlines flight 123 - Mount Osutaka in Gunma prefecture, Japan, on August 12, 1985. It was the worst single-aircraft disaster in history, with 520 dead (including the famous singer Sakamoto Kyu) and only four survivors. The flight took off just after 6 PM, bound from Tokyo International Airport to Osaka International Airport. As the aircraft reached cruising altitude over Sagami Bay, its tailplane buckled, shedding 15 feet of leading edge into the sea, depressurizing the cabin, and disabling the aircraft's hydraulics. The pilots set their transponder to broadcast a distress signal to air traffic control in Tokyo, which ordered the aircraft to descend and gave it heading vectors for an emergency landing. After descending to 13,500 feet, the pilots reported that the aircraft was "uncontrollable." It flew over the Izu Peninsula, headed for sea, then.
John August Roebling - John August Roebling Johann August Roebling (June 12, 1806-July 22, 1869) was a German-born civil engineer, educated at the University of Berlin, who moved to Pennsylvania (U.S.) in the 1830s and designed several famous bridges, including the Brooklyn Bridge and the Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge..
June 12 - June 12 June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1099 - Crusade leaders visit the Mount of Olives, where they meet a hermit who urges them to assault Jerusalem 1381 - Peasants' Revolt, England - rebels arrive at Blackheath 1442 - Alfonso V of Aragon is crowned King of Naples 1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam 1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He successfully transfuses the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy. 1758 -.
July 12 - July 12 July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 172 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1690 - William of Orange's army wins the Battle of the Boyne. 1759 - British cannon start firing on French at Quebec, from Lévis,_Quebec. 1812 - Americans invade Canada at Windsor,_Ontario. 1862 - the Medal of Honor is authorized by the U.S. Congress. 1932 - Lambeth Bridge, London, opened by King George V of the United Kingdom 1950 - René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France 1967 - Four days of race riots begin in Newark, New Jersey that will claim the lives of 27 people. 1975 - São.
Heinkel He 112 - with the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (Reich Air Ministry, or RLM). The He 51 was a workman-like but otherwise uninspired biplane, which first flew in May 1933 when the Luftwaffe was still a secret. Deliveries started in July of the next year, the 51 was intended to replace the earlier Arado Ar 65 and 68ss but they ended up flying side-by-side. The He 51 was outdated the day it entered service, and after an initial run of 75 production fighters, the design was switched into the B-2 reconnaissance floatplane for another 80, and then finally the C-1 light ground attack plane for a further 79. On August 6th, 1936 six of the planes were sent to Spain to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Deliveries continued until there were three squadrons of 12 planes.
KANU - Moi belonged, against the dominance of the big Luo and Kikuyu tribes that comprised the majority of Kanu's membership (Kenyatta himself being a Kikuyu). KADU pressed for a federal constitution, while KANU was in favour of centralism. The advantage lay with the numerically stronger KANU, and the British government was finally forced to remove all provisions of a federal nature from the constitution. Kenya became independent on December 12, 1963, and the next year joined the Commonwealth. Jomo Kenyatta, a member of the predominant Kikuyu tribe and head of the Kenya African National Union, became Kenya's first president. KADU dissolved itself voluntarily in 1964 and joined KANU. A small but significant leftist opposition party, the Kenya People's Union (KPU), was formed in 1966, led by Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, a former vice.
Kato Tomosaburo - August 24,1923) was a Japanese politician and the 21th Prime Minister from June 12,1922 - August 24,1923. He was born in Hiroshima prefecture. Preceded by: Takahashi Korekiyo Prime ministers of Japan Succeeded by: Yamamoto Gonnohyoe.
Venus (planet) - characteristics Equatorial diameter 12,103.6 km Surface area 4.60×108 km2 Mass 4.869×1024 kg Mean density 5.24 g/cm3 Surface gravity 8.87 m/s2 Rotation period -243243.0187 days Axial tilt 2.64° Albedo 0.65 Escape Speed 10.36 km/s Surface* temp min* mean max 228 K 737 K 773 K (*min temperature refers to cloud tops only) Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 9321.9 kPa Carbon dioxide 96% Nitrogen 3% Sulfur dioxide Water vapor Carbon monoxide Argon Helium Neon Carbonyl sulfide Hydrogen chloride Hydrogen fluoride trace Venus is the second planet from the Sun, named after the Roman goddess Venus. It is a terrestrial planet, very similar in size and bulk composition to Earth; it is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet" as a result of this similarity. Sometimes (inaccurately) referred to as the "morning star" or the "evening star",.
Katherine Young - in 1958, finally settling in Palo Alto where she resides today. She served as president of the Lytton Garden Rose Club until 1998, when she decided she needed a break. Needing something else to do, she made the fateful decision to take a 12-week-long computer class offered at her retirement home. By the end of these sessions, she was logging on, and the centenarian decided to become an activist for the cause of encouraging seniors to use the Net. A Pew Internet & American Life Project study showed that only 18% of Americans 65 and older get online, as opposed to 58% of the American population as a whole. Five years later, on her 102nd birthday, she became a celebrity for being the oldest person to surf the Net. She was.
Katharine Lee Bates - Lee Bates Katharine Lee Bates, (August 12, 1859 - March 26, 1929), is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem America the Beautiful. Born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, Cape Cod. The daughter of a Congregational pastor, she graduated from Wellesley College in 1880 and for many years was a professor of English literature at Wellesley. The first draft of America the Beautiful was hastily jotted in a notebook during the summer of 1893, which Miss Bates spent teaching in Colorado. Later she remembered, "One day some of the other teachers and I decided to go on a trip to 14,000-foot Pikes Peak. We hired a prairie wagon. Near the top we had to leave the wagon and go the rest of the way on mules. I was very tired..
Kadoma - 133,879 and the density of 10,902.20 persons per km². The total area is 12.28 km². The city was founded on August 1, 1963. External Links Official website in Japanese.
Yalobusha - of Police solicited donations of land for a county seat, and at its second meeting, the Board selected a site and named it Coffeeville. The new town was named in honor of General John Coffee, who represented the United States in the treaties with both the Choctaws and the Chickasaws. The next Board meeting was held in the new town, and in 1837 the first courthouse in Coffeeville was built. Later that same year, one of the early settlers in the northeastern part of the county, G.B. Ragsdale, established a stagecoach stand near what is now Water Valley. In 1848 the town of Oakland was chartered. Yalobusha County had a population of 12,248 in its first census, taken in 1840. In 1844, a post office was opened at Ragsdale's Stand. Three.
Karl Jatho - and public servant of the city of Hanover (February 3, 1873 - December 8, 1933). On August 18, 1903 he flew with his self-made motored gliding airplane, 4 months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers. His first attempts he made with a plane having three lifting surfaces, but switched to two surfaces soon. They were modelled after the Zanonia seed, a seed that was known for its gliding capability. In contrast to the Wright Brother's plane, the wings were flat in profile and not curved. He had four witnesses for his flight. The plane was equipped with a single-cylinder 10 horsepower Buchet engine driving a two-bladed pusher propeller and made hops of up to 200 feet (60 meters), flying up to 10 feet (3-4 meters) high. In comparison Orville.
Karl Joseph Simrock - Joseph Simrock Karl Joseph Simrock (August 28, 1802 - July 18, 1876), German poet and man of letters, was born at Bonn, where his father was a music publisher. He studied law at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, and in 1823 entered the Prussian civil service, from which he was expelled in 1830 for writing a poem in praise of the French July revolution. Afterwards he was admitted as lecturer at the university of Bonn, where in 1850 he was made a professor of Old German literature and in which city he died. Simrock established his reputation by his excellent modern rendering of the Nibelungenlied (1827), and of the poems of Walther von der Vogelweide (1833). Among other works translated by him into modern German were the Arme Heinrich of.
KC-135 Stratotanker - as well as the KC-135A Stratotanker. In 1954 the USAF ordered the first 29 of its future fleet of 732. The first aircraft flew in August 1956 and the initial production Stratotanker was delivered to Castle Air Force Base, California, in June 1957. The last KC-135 was delivered to the Air Force in 1965. Of the original KC-135A's, more than 410 have been modified with new CFM-56 engines produced by CFM-International. The re-engined tanker, designated either the KC-135R or KC-135T, can offload 50 percent more fuel, is 25 percent more fuel efficient, costs 25 percent less to operate and is 96 percent quieter than the KC-135A. Under another modification program, 157 Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard tankers were re-engined with the TF-33-PW-102 engines. The re-engined tanker, designated the KC-135E,.
Ken Livingstone - a favourite target for the press, which referred to him as "Red Ken" and associated him with the "Loony Left," alongside Tony Benn, Militant Tendency, and other far-left elements within the Labour Party. However, he favoured European integration and proportional representation (neither of which were particularly popular causes among the British left at that time), and when both the GLC and the Militant-controlled Merseyside council protested the government's rate-capping policy by refusing to set a property tax rate, Livingstone relented rather than face the withdrawl of government grant money. Livingstone's practicality (relative to the rest of the Labour left) may in part explain why his popularity grew at a time when other "hard left" figures like Benn and the Militants found themselves increasingly isolated from the general public. Following the Conservative.
Venera - launched soon after (a week or two) the first of the pair. 1VA (proto-Venera) - Flyby - launched February 4, 1961 : Failed to leave earth orbit Venera 1 - Flyby - launched February 12, 1961 : Communications lost enroute to Venus Venera 2 - Flyby - launched November 12, 1965 : Communications lost just before arival Venera 3 - Atmospheric Probe - launched November 16, 1965 : Communications lost just before atmospheric entry Venera 4 - Atmospheric Probe - launched June 12, 1967 : Arrived October 18, 1967 and was the first probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and return data Venera 5 - Atmospheric Probe - launched January 5, 1969 : Arrived May 16, 1969 and successfully returned atmoshperic data before being crushed by pressure within 26km of the.
Kefallinia - 38'18 N. The Island is named after Cephalus, some think its an island with a head, because the island's name and Cephalus comes from the Greek word for "head". Geography Its capital of the prefecture is Argostoli. The population has almost reached 45,000. It used to be the fastest growing part of Greece with a growth rate of 35% to 40% in 10 years, reaching 30,000 in the 1990s. The size of the island is around 800 km² (300 sq miles), and the present population density is 55 people per km² (140 per sq mile). Argostoli is home to one-third of the island's habitants. Lixouri is the second major city. The two cities account for almost two-thirds of the prefecture's population. In ancient times, before it was named Cephallonia, only around.
Keith Murdoch - Murdoch Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch (August 12, 1885 - October 4, 1952) was an Australian journalist and media mogul and the father of Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch was born in Melbourne in 1885 and was educated at Camberwell Grammar School and the London School of Economics. After graduation, he began a career in journalism with The Age. Murdoch applied to become Australia's official war historian upon the outbreak of World War I in August 1914. In the ballot to decide on that position he lost out to Charles Bean. In August 1915 that Murdoch managed to get permission to visit Anzac Cove, and for the purpose of investigating the alleged mismanagement of mail sent to Australian soldiers serving in the Gallipoli campaign. Murdoch agreed to hand deliver a letter detailing the mismanagement.
