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 - 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 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 30 - January 30 January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 335 days remaining, (336 in leap years). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1595 - William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time. 1649 - King Charles I of England is beheaded. 1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland. 1790 - The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne. 1820 - Edward Bransfield discovers Antarctica. 1835 - Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol -- first assassination attempt against a President. 1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco. 1862 - The first.
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.
January 9 - January 9 January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days remaining (357 in leap years). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1760 - Afghans defeat Marathas in Battle of Barari Ghat. 1768 - Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London). 1788 - Connecticut becomes the fifth state to join the United States. 1793 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fly in a balloon in the United States. 1806 - Lord Horatio Nelson is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. 1839 - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. 1861 - Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union, preceding the American Civil.
January 2002 - January 2002 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for January, 2002. See also: Afghanistan timeline January 1-16, 2002 Afghanistan timeline January 17-31, 2002 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 January 29, 2002 2 January 24, 2002 3 January 23, 2002 4 January 20, 2002 5 January 8, 2002 6 January 4, 2002 7 January 4, 2002 8 January 3, 2002 9 January 1, 2002 10 Topics in the news in January 2002 11 Background for events in January 2002 January 29, 2002 George W. Bush delivered his State of the Union Address to Congress. January 24, 2002 Enron hearings begin. Terrorist.
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.
January 2001 - January 2001 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: Monday, January 1 - A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall appears in Seattle's Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Saturday, January 6 - The United States Congress, presided over by Vice President Al Gore as President of the Senate, certifies George W. Bush's Electoral College victory and thus as the winner of 2000 presidential election. January 15 - Wikipedia, a Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online (Wikipedia Day). January 20 - George W. Bush succeeds Bill Clinton as President of the United States after prevailing over.
June 29 - June 29 June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island) 1786 - Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario. 1850 - Coal discovered on Vancouver Island. 1864 - Ninety-nine people killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire. 1891 - Street railway in Ottawa commences operation. 1922 - France grants 100 hectares at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from.
July 29 - July 29 July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observations Events 1014 - Battle of Kleidion: Basil II inflicts not only a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, but his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock. 1567 - James VI was crowned at Stirling. 1588 - Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is defeated by an English naval force under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake off the coast of Gravelines, France. 1693 - The Battle of Landen 1793 - John Graves Simcoe decides to build a.
Henschel Hs 129 - 348 miles 560 km Ferry range Service ceiling 29,525 ft 9,000 m Armament Guns 2x 20 mm MG 151/20 2x 7.92 mm MG 17 Bombs 2x 110lbs 4x 50kg The Henschel Hs 129, often referred to by it's nickname, the Panzerknacker, (tank cracker), was a World War II ground attack aircraft fielded by the Luftwaffe. Although likely to be a good anti-tank weapon, the plane was produced in only small numbers and deployed during a time when the Luftwaffe was unable to protect them from attack. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Background 2 Design and Prototypes 3 Hs 129B-1 4 Hs 129B-2 5 Hs 129B-3 6 Hs 129C Background By the middle of the 1930's the idea of using aircraft against ground targets had been "well understood" to be of little.
Kaloyan of Bulgaria - Byzantium, crowning Baldwin, Count of Flanders (IX) and Hainault (VI), as the Emperor of Constantinople. The "Greeks" (in this case meaning the Eastern Orthodox former subjects of Byzantium, as opposed to the Roman Catholic "Latins") sent envoys to Kaloyan, promising to make him emperor, if he would provide them with protection. The Crusaders, together with the Venetians under Doge Enrico Dandolo, challenged Kaloyan, and on March 29, 1205, laid siege to Adrianople, which Kaloyan had placed under his protection. Kaloyan hurried to Adrianople with a large army composed of Bulgars (Bulgarians), Vlachs (Wallachians), and 14,000 Comans (Koumanian mercenaries). On Thursday, April 14, 1205, the Crusaders faced Kaloyan outside of the city of Adrianople in what came to be called the Battle of Odrin. Kaloyan soundly defeated the Crusaders and took Emperor.
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.
Khmer Rouge - create a classless utopian society the new government carried out a radical program (Year Zero) of emptying the urban areas, closing schools and factories, abolishing banking and currency, outlawing all religions, ending all private property, and herding the population into collective farms. Unlike other communist regimes, there was no cult of personality, and the leaders of the Khmer Rouge maintained a low, almost anonymous profile. Large segments of the population were targeted for murder, including intellectuals (which was defined very broadly, extending to 'people who wore eyeglasses'), anyone connected with the previous regime, ethnic Vietnamese or those suspected of having sympathies with them (including people in the eastern provinces). Depending on the source a reported 15% to 40% of the population died between 1975 and 1979 (1 to 3 million people)..
Kings Plains National Park - north of Sydney. Fact sheet Area: 5,662 ha Latitude: 29° 34' 48" S Longitude: 151° 21' 56" E Date of establishment: January 22, 1988 Managing authorities: New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service IUCN category: II See also: Protected areas of New South Wales (Australia).
Klaus Fuchs - Emil Julius 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.
Kurt Nilsen - Nilsen Kurt Nilsen (born September 29, 1978), living in Bergen, Norway, won the Norwegian version of the television show Pop Idol, aired on TV 2 in May 2003. His single, She's So High, went straight to number one in the Norwegian singles chart and was the country's biggest-selling single to date. His follow-up CD with much of his own material was also a success. He subsequently won the vote for the World Idol title on January 1, 2004, beating competitors from ten other nations. In the show presenting the entries on December 25, Ian Dickson, the Australian judge, said: "You have the voice of an angel, but you look like a Hobbit. If this were Middle-earth Idol you'd walk it." Kurt's gap-toothedness did not seem to bother the viewers and voters,.
Jane Byrne - Chicago, Illinois. Mayoral Term: April 16, 1979 - April 29, 1983 Jane Byrne first entered politics to help John F. Kennedy get elected President. It was at that time that she first met Mayor Richard J. Daley, who, in 1968, appointed her head of consumer affairs in Chicago, a post she would hold until fired by Michael Bilandic in 1977. Byrne used her firing to launch an attack on Bilandic in the 1978 mayoral primary. Although most people gave her little chance of winning, a series of freak snowstorms in January which paralyzed the city, gave her the edge she needed since Bilandic was seen as not being able to keep the city working. As mayor, Jane Byrne moved, amidst much publicity, into the Cabrini Green Housing Projects as part of.
James J. Hill - James J. Hill (September 16, 1838 - May 29, 1916), was a noted American railroad tycoon. He showed his aptitude for the intellectual side of the world early in life; although he only ever had nine years of formal schooling, by the time he had finished (he was forced to leave school in 1852 due to the death of his father), he was adept at algebra, geometry, land surveying, and English. His particular talents for English and mathematics would be critical later in his life. After working for a while as a clerk (at which job he learnt bookkeeping), Hill settled in St. Paul, Minnesota at the age of 18. His first job at St. Paul was with a steamboat company, where he worked as a bookkeeper. His talents at this.
