January 13 - January 13 January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. It is still celebrated as New Year's Eve by those on the Julian calendar. There are 352 days remaining (353 in a leap year). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 888 - Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks 1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California. 1854 - The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas. 1893 - The Independent Labor Party of the UK has its first meeting. 1898 - Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair. 1910 - The first radio broadcast. Inventor Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from.
January - January simple:January January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, and has 31 days. It is named for Janus, the Roman god of doors and gateways. January and February were the last two months to be added to the calendar, since the Romans originally considered winter a monthless period. Although March was originally the first month, January usurped that position because that was when consuls were usually chosen. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. The coming of age day in Japan since 1948 is a national holiday on which the nation celebrates those who turn 20 years of age. The day used to be January 15 until the year 1999. The day was moved by the.
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.
January 14 - January 14 January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining (352 in leap years). Celebrated as New Year's Day by those still following the Julian calendar. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1639 - Connecticut's first constitution, the "Fundamental Orders," is adopted. 1690 - The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany. 1724 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne. 1784 - American Revolutionary War: The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England. 1814 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden. 1858 - Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt. 1900 - Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premieres in Rome. 1907 - An earthquake in Kingston,.
January 2003 - January 2003 2002: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December 2003: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for January, 2003. See also: Preparations for 2003 invasion of Iraq for events leading up to the 2003 Iraq War Afghanistan timeline January 2003 January 31, 2003 January 30, 2003 Would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid is sentenced to life in prison for trying to down American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami. Reid had previously pleaded guilty. [1] January 29, 2003 A false rumor that Thai actress Suvanant Kongying.
June 13 - June 13 June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1373 - England and Portugal sign a treaty of alliance which has never been broken 1774 - Rhode Island is the first colony to outlaw the importation of slaves 1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded 1898 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital 1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England 1966 - The United States Supreme Court.
July 13 - July 13 July 13th is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1558 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines. 1643 - English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down - In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller. 1787 - The United States Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admition of new states and limits the expansion.
Karl Menger - Karl Menger Karl Menger (January 13 1902 - October 5 1985) was a mathematician of great scope and depth. He did work on Algebras, Curve and Dimension Theory, and Geometries. His most famous popular contribution was the Menger Sponge (mistakenly known as Sierpinski's Sponge), a three dimensional version of Sierpinski's Carpet. It is also related to the Cantor Set and the Sierpinski Square. See Also http://www.iit.edu/~am/Menger/menger.html You may be looking for the article on his father, the economist Carl Menger..
Kapellen - Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Kapellen proper. On January 1st, 2000 Kapellen had a total population of 25,671 (12,574 males and 13,097 females). The total area is 37.45 km² which gives a population density of 685.47 inhabitants per km². Official website www.kapellen.be (Dutch only).
Karl Lachmann - Wilhelm Lachmann (March 4, 1793 - March 13, 1851), German philologist and critic, was born in Brunswick-Lüneburg in what is now Germany. He studied at Leipzig and Göttingen, devoting himself mainly to philological studies. In 1815 he joined the Prussian army as a volunteer chasseur and accompanied his detachment to Paris, but did not encounter the enemy. In 1816 he became an assistant master in the Friedrichswerder gymnasium at Berlin, and a Privatdozent at the university. The same summer he became one of the principal masters in the Friedrichs-Gymnasium of Königsberg, where he assisted his colleague, the Germanist Friedrich Karl Köpke (1785-1865) with his edition of Rudolf von Ems' Barlaam und Josaphat (1818), and also assisted his friend in a contemplated edition of the works of Walther von der Vogelweide. In.
Karl Liebknecht - Karl Liebknecht Karl Liebknecht (August 13, 1871 - January 15, 1919) was a German socialist and a co-founder of the Spartacist League. Born in Leipzig, he was the son of Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. However, Karl Liebknecht was more radical than his father; he became an exponent of Marxist ideas during his study of law and political economy in Leipzig and Berlin, and after serving with the Imperial Pioneer Guards in Potsdam from 1893 to 1894 and internships in Arnsberg and Paderborn from 1894 to 1898, he earned his doctorate in 1897 and moved to Berlin in 1899 where he opened a lawyer's office with his brother, Theodor Liebknecht. Liebknecht married Julia Paradies on May 8 1900; the couple had two sons.
Kamen - of Mc Donnell, Grumman and others December 1945 : With $2,000 and his invention of the servo-flap controlled rotor , 26-year-old Charles Kaman founds 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.
KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff - German soldiers and sailors from Gotenhafen (now and before the war known as Gdynia), the major port north-west of Danzig, shortly before it would be captured by the Russians. For the trip, it was equipped fore and aft with anti-aircraft guns. Heavily overloaded and carrying only about 50% of the rescue equipment necessary to rescue its passengers if need be, the ship left Gotenhafen early on January 30, 1945. That evening, escorted by only a small minesweeper, Wilhelm Gustloff was attacked. Somewhere between Danzig and the Danish island of Bornholm it was torpedoed by the Soviet submarine S-13, commanded by Aleksandr Marinesko, taking three direct hits at around 9.00 p.m. An eyewitness account claimed that 400 members of the Women's Auxiliary of the German Navy, died almost instantly after the second.
Venera - 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 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.
Kenneth Patchen - Kenneth Patchen Kenneth Patchen (December 13, 1911 - January 8, 1972) was an American poet and painter. He was an influence on the beat movement. In 1942 he collaborated with the composer John Cage on the radio play The City Wears A Slouch Hat and many of his poems have been set to music by David Bedford. External Link Kenneth Patchen Home Page So Many Little Dyings mp3 beautiful song by Kyle Gann with a sample of Patchen reading.
Ken Buchanan - parts of his career fighting undistinguished opponents in England. His Scottish debut came in his 17th fight, when he outpointed John McMillan over 10 rounds on January 23, 1967. Prior to that, he had also beaten Ivan Whiter by a decision in 8 rounds. Buchanan ran his winning streak to 23 consecutive bouts before challenging Maurice Cullen on February 19,1968 for the British Lightweight title in London. He knocked Cullen out in round 11 and became a world classified Lightweight challenger. He continued his way up the world Lightweight rankings by defeating Leonard Tavarez, Angel Robinson Garcia and Whiter (in a rematch) among others, but on January 29, 1970, he found his first stone on the boxing road when he challenged future world Jr. Welterweight champion Miguel Velazquez in Madrid, for.
Kerplunk - May and September of 1991 at the Art of Ears studio in San Francisco. It was released on January 17, 1992, under the Lookout Records label. Track Listing (Album Length: 42:08) "2000 Light Years Away" (2:34) "One for the Razorbacks" (2:30) "Welcome to Paradise"(3:30) "Christie Road" (3:33) "Private Ale" (2:26) "Dominated Love Slave" (1:41) "One of My Lies" (2:19) "80" (3:39) "Android" (3:00) "No One Knows" (3:39) "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?" (2:44) "Words I Might Have Ate" (2:32) "Sweet Children" (1:41) "Best Thing in Town" (2:03) "Strangeland" (2:08) "My Generation" (2:19) (The Who cover) Personnel Kerplunk was produced, engineered, and mixed by Andy Ernst and Green Day. It was mastered by John Golden at K-disc in Hollywood. Al Sobrante, former drummer for the band, was the executive producer on the album..
Khartoum - a metropolis totalling now probably over four million inhabitants. Troops loyal to the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad laid siege to Khartoum starting on March 13, 1884 and captured the city nearly on January 26, 1885. Omdurman was the scene of the bloody battle (September 2, 1898) in which British forces destroyed the Mahdist army defending the city. Following the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, the United States., accusing Osama bin Laden's Islamic extremist al-Qaeda group of responsibility, retaliated with cruise missile attacks (August 20) on al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and the al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum..
Kid Chocolate - Kid Chocolate Eligio Saldana (January 6, 1910-August 8, 1988), better known as Kid Chocolate, was a Cuban boxer who enjoyed wild success both in the boxing ring and in society life during a span of the 1930s. Chocolate, nicknamed The Cuban Bon Bon, learned how to fight by watching old fight films in Cuba. He later sparred with boxers such as Joe Gans, Benny Leonard and Jack Johnson, all world champions, before beginning an amateur boxing career. As an amateur, he won all 100 of his fights, 86 by knockout. His professional boxing debut, officially, occurred on December 8, 1927, when he beat Johnny Cruz by a decision in six in Havana. Whether that was his actual debut or not has been a point of contention, because some Cuban boxing.
Kid Gavilan - Kid Gavilan Gerardo Gonzalez (January 6, 1926 - February 13, 2003), better known in the boxing world as Kid Gavilan, was a former boxer and world welterweight champion from Cuba. He was a native of the city of Camaguey. Gavilan was managed by Yamil Chade, a half Lebanese, half Cuban manager who also directed the careers of Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez, Carlos De Leon and Felix Trinidad among others. Gavilan started as a professional boxer on the evening of June 5, 1943, when he beat Antonio Diaz by a decision in four rounds in Havana. His first ten bouts were in Havana, and then he had one in Cienfuegos, but soon he returned to Havana for three more wins. After 14 bouts, he left Cuba for his first fight abroad,.
