January 22 - January 22 January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 343 days remaining (344 in leap years). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1771 - Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to England. 1824 - Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast. 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.
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 22 - June 22 June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paulus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War 1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America. 1846 - The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax. 1937 - Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France 1940 - France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany. 1941 - Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union, in one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II. 1941 - First Croatian anti-fascist.
July 22 - July 22 July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1587 - Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony. 1793 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing north of Mexico. 1796 - Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party. 1812 - Peninsular War: British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca in Spain..
Kato Tomosaburo - 22,1861 - 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.
Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich - Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich (August 25, 1752 - December 22, 1828), Austrian soldier, was born at Nenslingen, in Bavaria. In 1770 he joined an Austrian cavalry regiment, in which his uncle, Leiberich, was a squadron commander, becoming an officer seven years later. During the brief war of the Bavarian Succession he was selected for service on the staff of Count Kinsky, under whom, and subsequently under the comniander-in-chief Field Marshal Count Lacy, he did excellent work. He was promoted first lieutenant in 1778, and captain on the quartermaster-general's staff in 1783. Count Lacy, then the foremost soldier of the Austrian army, had the highest opinion of his young assistant. In 1785 Mack married Katherine Gabrieul, and was ennobled under the name of Mack von Leiberich. In the Turkish war he.
Kamen - the company. January 15, 1947 : K-125 : Kaman's first helicopter July, 1949 : K-225 An improved version, the U.S. Navy buys two and Coast Guard one for $25,000 each. Later, they will receive the H-22 designation. December 1951 : A modified K-225 equipped with a Boeing 502 engine becomes the world's first gas turbine powered helicopter , ushering in the turbine age for helicopters. This aircraft is now at the Smithsonian 1953 : Kaman produced the first electrically powered drone April 1953 : HOK (OH-43) 1954 : K-16 A V/STOL designed around a rotoprop March 1954 : A modified Kaman HTK-1 becomes the world's first twin-turbine powered helicopter September, 1956 : HH-43 Huskie A variant of the OH-43, equipped with a Lycoming T-53 turbine engine HH-43B Rotor diameter: 14.33 m.
KC-135 Stratotanker - about two decades beyond the present. United States Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker and F-22 Raptor. Boeing's 367-80 was the basic design for the commercial Boeing 707 passenger aircraft 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.
Venera - 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 surface Venera 6 - Atmospheric Probe - launched January 10, 1969 : Arrived May 17, 1969 and successfully returned atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure within 11km of the surface Venera 7 - Lander - launched August 17, 1970 : Arrived December 15, 1970, was the first successful landing of a spacecraft on another planet and survived for 23 minutes before succumbing to the heat and pressure Venera 8 - Lander - launched March 27, 1972 : Arrived July 22, 1972 and survived for 50 minutes before succumbing to the heat and pressure Venera.
Vera Caslavska - blonde, she was generally popular with the public and won a total of 22 international titles. Born in Prague and originally a figure skater, she debuted internationally at the 1958 World Championships, winning a silver medal in the team event. She first participated in the Olympics in 1960, also winning a silver medal with the Czechoslovakian team. By 1962, she fought for the all-around title at the World Championships, held off only by Larissa Latyina. Čáslavská was at her peak at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, clearly winning the overall title and taking gold medals in the balance beam and the horse vault as well, in addition to another silver medal in the team event. She would finally win a team gold at the 1966 World Championships, breaking the Soviet.
Keith Sweat - born in Harlem, New York on July 22, 1961, is an American singer. Sweat once worked an ordinary 9-to-5 job for the commodities market in the New York Stock Exchange. He sang at nightclubs until he was discovered in 1987. On November 25, 1987, Sweat released his debut album Make It Last Forever, the biggest hit from this album was I Want Her (#1 R&B/#5 Pop), and the title track from the album was hit #3 on the R&B charts. Make It Last Forever (album) sold three million copies. He continued to chart fairly well on the charts. His sophomore album I'll Give All My Love To You hit #6 on the Billboard 200 chart, and Keep It Comin' debuted in the Top 20 of the album chart. In 1992, Sweat.
Keith & Donna Godchaux - (piano) and Donna Jean Thatcher Godchaux Mackay (born August 22, 1947) (singer) are best known for having been members of the Grateful Dead. Keith was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California. Donna was born in Sheffield, Alabama. The couple met and married in 1970. Prior to 1970, Donna Godchaux had worked as a back-up singer in Muscle Shoals; appearing on songs by Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding. They introduced themselves at a Jerry Garcia concert in October 1971. At the time, Donna was not working as a musician and Keith had been appearing with Dave Mason (formerly of Traffic). He was also known to Betty Cantor-Jackson, a Grateful Dead sound engineer. They joined the band shortly afterwards; remaining members until February 1979. The precise circumstances.
Ken Lucas - Ken Lucas Ken Lucas (born August 22 1933), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing the 4th District of Kentucky. He was born in Kentucky, was educated at University of Kentucky, served in the United States Air Force, and was judge-executive of Boone County, Kentucky, before entering the House..
Kelvin Hopkins - Hopkins Kelvin Peter Hopkins (born 22 August 1941) is an English politician, and Labour member of Parliament for Luton North. He was first elected in the 1997 general election, but is a left-winger, being a member of the Socialist Campaign Group..
Kenny Guinn - Kenny Guinn Kenny C. Guinn (born August 24, 1936) is an American educator and businessman who was elected Republican Governor of Nevada in 1998 and re-elected in 2002. He was born in Garland, Arkansas and grew up in Exeter, California, then went to Fresno State University where he received degrees in physical education in 1959 and 1965, followed by a doctorate in education from Utah State University in 1970. In 1964, he started work for the Clark County School District of Clark County, Nevada (the county of Las Vegas), eventually becoming superintendent of schools. In 1978, he shifted to business and joined PriMerit Bank, becoming chairman of the board in 1987, then moving to Southwest Gas Corporation, where he was chairman by 1993. In 1994 he was interim president of University.
KGB - The reformed MVD retained its internal security functions while the new KGB took on external security functions. The KGB was subordinated to the Council of Ministers. On July 5, 1978 the KGB was renamed the "KGB of the USSR" with the KGB Chairman given a seat on the council. The KGB was dissolved due to the participation of its chief, Colonel General Vladimir Kryuchkov, in the August 1991 coup attempt designed to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev. He used many of the KGB's resources to aid the coup attempt. Kryuchkov was arrested, and General Vadim Bakatin was appointed Chairman on August 23, 1991 with a mandate to dismantle the KGB. On November 6, 1991 the Russian KGB officially ceased to exist, though its successor organization, the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, or FSB, is functionally.
Konrad Zuse - Konrad Zuse Konrad Zuse (June 22, 1910 - December 18, 1995) was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievements were the completion of world's first working programmable computer in 1941 and the design of the first high-level programming language Plankalkül in 1945 (although the language was never actually implemented within his lifetime). Born in Berlin, Germany, Zuse graduated in engineering from the Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg (today the Technische Universität Berlin or Technical University of Berlin) in 1935. He started work at the Henschel aircraft factory in Dessau, but only one year later he resigned from his job to build a programmable machine. Working in his parents' apartment in 1938, his first attempt, called the Z1, was a binary electrically driven mechanical calculator with limited programmability, reading instructions from punched.
Ko-hyoteki class submarine - the vessels were battle practice targets. The first two, Ha-1 and Ha-2, were used only in testing. Ha-19 was used as I-24tou (see below). The other hull numbers are unaccounted for. On December 7, 1941, five ko-hyoteki joined the attack on Pearl Harbor, having been carried there by I-16, I-18, I-20, I-22, and I-24. Photographs taken by Japanese aviators during the attack appeared to show a ko-hyoteki inside Pearl Harbor firing torpedoes at Battleship Row, but subsequent research has disproven this theory. I-16tou, commanded by Masaji Yokoyama and crewed by Sadamu Uyeda, radioed on the evening of December 7 a report that the attacks had been successful, and was credited with the sinking of USS Arizona (BB-39), although in truth it was a high-level bomb dropped by a Kate from the.
Korbinian Brodmann - Korbinian Brodmann (November 17, 1868 - August 22, 1918) was a german neurologist which has become famous based on his definition of brain regions from their cytoarchitectonic characteristics. These areas are now usually referred to as Brodmann areas. Links Korbinian Brodmann (1868-1918), Laurence Garey.
Krifast - the city of Kristiansund and the islands of Frei, Bergsøya and Aspøya to the mainland of Norway, giving 22,000 people a connection to the mainland. The most famous parts are the underwater tunnel and two of the bridges. 25 km of road and 6 km of pedestrian and bike road are also counted as part of Krifast. There are in total 7 bridges that are part of Krifast, where the most famous is the suspension bridge from Bergsøya to Gjemnes, with 108 m high towers and a span between them of 623 m. There is also a 933 m long pontoon bridge from Bergsøya to Aspøya, which is the only bridge of its kind bound to solid rock only on each end. It is built on 7 pontoons, floating over a.
