January 28 - January 28 January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 337 days remaining (338 in leap years). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1521 - Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25. 1547 - Edward VI becomes King of England. 1573 - articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland 1788 - The first penal colony is founded at Botany Bay, Australia. 1855 - first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway 1871 - France surrenders to end the Franco-Prussian War. 1878 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States. 1902 - The Carnegie Institution.
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 29 - January 29 January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 336 days remaining, (337 in leap years). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia 1845 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mirror). 1850 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the United States Congress 1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross 1861 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state. 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. 1891 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii 1900 - The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8.
January 27 - January 27 January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 338 days remaining (339 in leap years). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1606 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begin and later ends in their execution on January 31. 1785 - The University of Georgia Founded 1870 - First college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University. 1880 - Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp. 1888 - In Washington, DC the National Geographic Society is founded. 1900 - Boxer rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined. 1915 - United States Marines occupy Haiti. 1926.
January 19 - January 19 January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 346 days remaining (347 in leap years) Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England which makes Normandy a part of England. 1764 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. 1806 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope. 1829 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres. 1839 - British East India Company captures Aden. 1840 - Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States. 1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres.
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 28 - June 28 June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 186 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1243 - Innocent IV becomes pope. 1519 - Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. 1635 - Guadeloupe becomes a French colony. 1651 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians, the biggest battle in the 17th century, starts. 1838 - Queen Victoria crowned. 1894 - Labor Day becomes an official US holiday. 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia are killed by a Serbian nationalist, the casus belli of World War I. 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World.
July 28 - July 28 July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1540 - One of the most important political figures of the reign of Henry VIII of England, Thomas Cromwell, is executed on order from the king on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day. 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution. 1821 - Peru declares independence from Spain. 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church begins - Confederate troops led by General.
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg - Juho Ståhlberg Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (January 28, 1865 - September 22, 1952), First president of Finland 1919-1925, a Nationalist Liberal. Ståhlberg was born in Suomussalmi in Finland. He was christened Carl Johan, which he later changed to Finnish form like most fennomans (supporters of Finnish language and culture). In Oulu Finnish lycee he was the primus of his class. In 1889 he graduated in Laws, as a Bachelor of Arts. He had a long career as the presenter and planner of the Senate's legislation already when Finland was a Russian Grand Duchy. He supported constitutional legislative policies, including legislative resistance, against the attempted Russification of Finland, eventually even women's suffrage, and had a moderate line on Prohibition. In the beginning of Finland's independence he became the chairman of the Constitutional Council..
Kato Takaaki - (加藤 高明 3 January, 1860 - 28 January, 1926) was a Japanese politician and the 24th Prime Minister from 11 June,1924 - 28 January, 1926. He was born at Nagoya, Aichi and commenced life as an employee in the great firm of Mitsu Bishi. In 1887 he became private secretary to Count Okuma, minister of state for foreign affairs. Subsequently he served as director of a bureau in the finance department, and from 1894 to 1899 he represented his country at the court of St James. He received the portfolio of foreign affairs in the fourth Ito cabinet (1900 - 1901), which remained in office only a few months. Appointed again to the same position in the Saionji cabinet (1906), he resigned after a brief interval, being opposed to the nationalization.
Kees van Dongen - van Dongen Kees van Dongen (January 26, 1877 - May 28, 1968), was a Dutch painter born in Delfshaven. He was one of Les Fauves, who lived and worked in France most of his life, and died in Monte Carlo in 1968..
Ken Buchanan - Buchanan Ken Buchanan (born June 28, 1945) is a former world boxing champion. Many consider Buchanan to be the best boxer ever to come out of Scotland. Buchanan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He started boxing professionally on September 20, 1965, beating Brian Tonks by a knockout in two rounds in London. He spent much of the early 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.
Kegworth air disaster - disaster The Kegworth Air Disaster occured on January 8, 1989, when British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, G-OBME owned by British Midland crashed onto the embankment of the M1 motorway, short of the runway of East Midlands airport, Leicestershire, close to the village of Kegworth. 47 of the 118 passengers lost their lives (39 at the scene, 8 later). All eight of the flight crew survived the accident. Of the 79 survivors, 5 had minor injuries and 74 were seriously injured. Surprisingly, no one on the motorway was hurt (and no vehicles damaged). The aircraft was on a scheduled flight from Heathrow airport to Belfast in Northern Ireland, the attempted unscheduled landing at East Midlands being due to an in-flight emergency which had occurred. After take-off from Heathrow, the aircraft.
King Tubby - King Tubby (born Osbourne Ruddock, January 28, 1941 - February 6, 1989) is a Jamaican musician, known primarily for his influence on the development of dub in the 1960s. In the 1950s, King Tubby's musical career began with the sound systems, set up on the streets of Kingston and playing dance music for the people. As a radio repairman, Tubby soon became quite helpful at most of the sound systems around. Tubby began working with Duke Reid in 1968. At Treasure Isle, a studio, Tubby began making remixes of hit songs, usually by simply removing the vocals. In time, Tubby (and others) began shifting the emphasis in the instrumentals, adding sounds and removing others and adding various special effects, like echoes. By 1971 (see 1971 in music), Tubby's soundsystem was one.
King C. Gillette - King C. Gillette King Camp Gillette (January 5, 1855 - July 9, 1932) is popularly, and incorrectly, known, as the inventor of the safety razor. (The Encyclopædia Britannica, among others, has falsely so credited him.) The safety razor was in fact invented in the mid-1870s by the Kampfe Brothers, but it still used a forged blade. (See picture of my personal Kampfe Brothers razor, with patent dates.) While Gillette did improve the design of the safety razor, his true invention was an inexpensive, high profit-margin stamped steel blade and a unique business model. Born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and raised in Chicago, Illinois, King Camp Gillette's family was devastated by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. While working as a traveling salesman to support his family in the 1890s, he.
Kirellos VI of Alexandria - Mina El-Baramosy. In 1947, he built the Church of Saint Mina the Martyr in the Coptic quarter of Cairo. He became Pope of Alexandria, on May 10, 1959 (Coptic calendar: 2nd of Beshans, 1675). On June 28, 1959 he appointed Archbishop Gathlik for Ethiopia. In November 1959 he laid the foundation stone of the Big Monastery of Saint Mina in Mariuot Desert. In January 1965 Kirellos presided over the Committee of Eastern Orthodox Churches in Addis Ababa, the first (Masconic) and (Non-Khalkadonic) synod of these churches held in modern times. In June 1968 Kyrillos received the remains of Saint Mark the Evangelist, which had been absent from Egypt for over eleven centuries. The saint's remains were interred beneath the Great New Cathedral of Saint Reways built by Kirellos and was opened.
Klaus Fuchs - Klaus Fuchs, December 29, 1911 - January 28, 1988) was a British physicist who was convicted of surreptitiously supplying information on the British and American atomic bomb research to the USSR. Born in Russelsheim, Germany in 1911. He joined the German Communist Party, but fled to England following the rise of the Nazis in 1933. Gaining a doctorate in Physics from the University of Bristol in 1937, he was invited to study at Edinburgh University. At the outbreak of war, German citizens were interned, Fuchs at a camp in Quebec, Canada. However Professor Max Born of Edinburgh University intervened on Fuchs' behalf. By early 1941, Fuchs had returned to Edinburgh where he was approached by Rudolf Peierls to work on the "Tube Alloys" program, the British atomic bomb research project. He.
Knute Nelson - Knute Nelson (February 2, 1843 - April 28, 1923) was an American politician. Nelson was born in Voss, Norway and immigrated to the United States in 1849 . He was a US Representative, US Senator and Governor of Minnesota. Nelson also served in the US Army during the American Civil War. He also had been a member of the Wisconsin assembly and Minnesota State Senate. He served in the US House of Representatives from March 3, 1883 to March 3, 1889. He was elected the 12th Governor of Minnesota in 1892 and reelected in 1894, and served until January 31, 1895, when he resigned, preparatory to becoming Senator. He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1895; reelected in 1901, 1907, 1913, and 1918, and served from.
Koreelah National Park - north of Sydney. Fact sheet Area: 5,270 ha Latitude: 28° 18' 19" S Longitude: 152° 26' 20" E Date of establishment: January 1, 1999 Managing authorities: New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service IUCN category: II See also: Protected areas of New South Wales (Australia).
Kortemark - West Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Handzame, Kortemark proper, Werken and Zarren. On January 1st, 2000 Kortemark had a total population of 12,232 (6,145 males and 6,087 females). The total area is 55.53 km² which gives a population density of 220.28 inhabitants per km²..
