January 18 - January 18 January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 347 days remaining (348 in leap years) Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 350 - General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans, proclaims himself Emperor. 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople fail. 1520 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde. 1535 - Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro. 1670 - Henry Morgan captures Panama. 1701 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia. 1778 - James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands." 1861 - Georgia joins the Confederacy. 1871 - Wilhelm I of Germany becomes.
June 18 - June 18 June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1778 - American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1812 - The beginning of the War of 1812 -- The United States Congress declares war against United Kingdom 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for a second time 1858 - Charles Darwin receives from Alfred Russel Wallace a paper that included nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory. 1873 - Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote.
July 18 - July 18 July 18 is the 199th day (200th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 166 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 64 - Great fire of Rome: A fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control while Emperor Nero reportedly plays his lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance. 1830 - Uruguay adopts its first constitution. 1863 - American Civil War: The first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, unsuccessfully assaults Confederate-held Fort Wagner but their valiant fighting still proves the worth of African American soldiers during the war. 1914 - Within the.
Katya Paskaleva - Katya Paskaleva Katya Paskaleva (September 18, 1945 - July 25, 2002) was a Bulgarian actress, most famous for her role in Koziyat rog (1972). She was the epitome of Bulgarian cinematography. Katya Paskaleva studied at VITIS "Krastyo Sarafov", where Metodi Andonov taught her acting. She graduated in 1967. Paskaleva died in Sofia in 2002..
Venera - 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 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,.
Kerry Livgren - Kerry Livgren Kerry Livgren (born September 18, 1949) is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as one of the founding members and primary writers for the 1970s supergroup, Kansas. Livgren was a member of numerous bands in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Livgren joined White Clover in 1974, a band that also included vocalist Steve Walsh and violinist Robbie Steinhardt. Shortly after Livgren joined, the group changed their name to Kansas. Livgren penned Kansas' hit "Carry On Wayward Son", as well as "Dust In The Wind" and other songs. It was around this time that Livgren became involved in Urantia, a spiritualist pantheistic faith, which was obvious in the music of Kansas' Monolith project. While on tour with the band supporting that album, Livgren converted to Christianity. Dissatisfied.
Kettle Valley Railway - path. Until recently the Kettle Valley Steam Railway has still been operating along a preserved ten-kilometre section from Prairie Valley Station to Canyon View Siding. Services have been suspended due to a forest fire, see below. Unfortunately, as of September, 2003, 9 of the 18 trestles on the Myra Canyon section of the route have burnt down in a forest fire..
Kew Bridge - owned the ferry. An Act of Parliament was required to allow this to happen. It was constructed with two stone arches at each end and 7 timber arches in between. These proved costly to maintain and it only lasted 30 years. In 1782 Robert Tunstall junior, son of the builder of the first bridge, obtained consent to replace the bridge and work began on 4 June 1783, the anniversary date of the first bridge opening to the public. The new bridge was designed by James Paine who had been responsible for Richmond Bridge in 1777. The cost was £16,500 which was raised by means of a tontine. (Subscribers take out an annuity during their lifetime and this is increase as each one dies until one is the winner??) The second bridge.
Kid Gavilan - decision in ten, and Tony Pellone, with Gavilan obtaining a decision against Pellone. After beating Williams twice by decision, he met Robinson with Robinson's world Welterweight title on the line. He lost his first title try, when Robinson won a decision in 15 rounds. Back to the drawing board, he beat Rocky Castellani, Lightweight world champion Beau Jack and Laurent Dauthuille (the latter of which fought Gavilan in Montreal). All of them were beaten by decision in ten. In 1950, he went 10-4-1, beating Billy Graham, Sonny Horne, Robert Villemain, Eugene Hairston and Tony Janiro among others. In 1951, after beating Tommy Ciarlo twice, once in Caracas, and Hairston once again, he finally became a world champion when he beat Johnny Saxton for the world Welterweight title by a decision in.
King Philip's War - Finally a colonist reported an Indian conspiracy to attack the settlements, and before the charges could be investigated, the informer was killed. Three Indians in the area were arrested, convicted of his murder, and hanged on June 8, 1675 at Plymouth. The war Philip led his warriors in an attack at Swansea on June 20. After a siege of 5 days, the town was destroyed. The colonists from Plymouth and Boston were quick to respond, and on June 28 they sent an expedition that destroyed the Wampanoag town at Mount Hope (modern Bristol, Rhode Island). Early engagements The war quickly spread, and soon involved the Podunk and Nipmuch tribes. During the summer of 1675 the Indians attacked at Mendon (July 14), Brookfield (August 2), and Lancaster (August 9). In early September.
Klaus Barbie - Klaus Barbie (October 25, 1913 - September 25, 1991) was a German officer of the SS and the Gestapo (secret police) during the Nazi regime. Barbie used the alias Klaus Altmann while he was hiding in Bolivia. Barbie was born in Bad Godesberg and was educated at the Friedrich-Wilhelm Institute. He joined the SS in 1934, immediately after his graduation from the university, and became a member of the NSDAP in 1937. In 1941, Barbie was posted to the Bureau of Jewish Affairs and sent to Amsterdam and later, in May 1942, to Lyonā€”there, he earned the sobriquet "Butcher of Lyon" as head of the local Gestapo. He was accused of a number of crimes, including the capture and deportation of forty-four Jewish children hidden in the village of Izieu and.
Konrad Zuse - 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 tape. The Z1.
Kokomo, Indiana - the city is 85.10% White, 10.34% African American, 0.38% Native American, 1.14% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.17% from other races, and 1.84% from two or more races. 2.61% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 20,273 households out of which 28.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.2% are married couples living together, 14.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 39.8% are non-families. 35.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 12.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.24 and the average family size is 2.90. In the city the population is spread out with 25.0% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24,.
Kurt Gödel - known as Der Herr Warum (Mr. Why). He attended German-language primary and secondary school in Brno and completed them with honors in 1923. Although Kurt had first excelled in learning languages he later became more fond of history and mathematics. His interest in mathematics increased when in 1920 his older brother Rudolf (born 1902) left for Vienna to go to Medical School at the University of Vienna (UV). Already during his teens Kurt studied Gabelsberger shorthand, Goethe's theory of colors and criticisms of Isaac Newton, and the writings of Kant. Studying in Vienna At the age of 18 Kurt joined his brother Rudolf in Vienna and entered the UV. By that time he had already mastered university-level mathematics. Although initially intending to study theoretical physics he also attended courses on mathematics.
J.D. Tippit - J.D. Tippit Jefferson Davis "J.D." Tippit (September 18 1924-November 221963) was a police officer with the Dallas Police Department who was slain by Lee Harvey Oswald after Oswald was stopped by Tippit following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Tippit was born in Clarksville,Red River, Texas to Edgar Lee Tippit and Lizzie Mae Rush. Tippit attended public schools through the tenth grade. Tippit was a member of the Baptist denomination. Tippit entered the United States Army on July 21 1944 and was assigned to the US 17th Airborne Division where he served until June 20 1946. Tippit was married to Marie Frances Gasaway on 26 December 1946 and had three children. That same year he went to work for the Dearborn Stove Company. He went to work for the.
January - 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 Japanese government in an attempt to lift the economy by increasing consecutive holidays. Trivia The signs of the zodiac within the month of January are Capricorn (December 22-January 19) and Aquarius (January 20-February 18). In the sky, however, in January the Sun passes through the zodiac constellations Sagittarius and Capricornus. In regular years January begins on the same day of the week as October. In leap years January begins on the same day of the week as April and July. January's flower is the snowdrop. January's birthstone is the garnet. See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September,.
January 17 - 1998) 1937 - Troy Donahue, actor 1939 - Maury Povich, talk show host 1942 - Muhammad Ali, boxer 1942 - Ulf Hoelscher, violinist 1948 - Davķš Oddsson, Prime Minister of Iceland 1949 - Andy Kaufman, comedian (ā€ 1984) 1955 - Steve Earle, musician 1956 - Paul Young, English musician 1962 - Jim Carrey, actor, comedian 1966 - Shabba Ranks, singer 1971 - Kid Rock, singer 1974 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twin sisters (ā€ 2003) Deaths 1751 - Tomaso Albinoni, aged 69, Italian composer 1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician 1861 - Lola Montez, adventurer 1886 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer 1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States 1961 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1964 - T.H..
January 7 - Blanchard and Americann John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air. 1789 - First nationwide United States election. 1894 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. 1896 - Fannie Farmer publishes first cookbook. 1901 - Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism. 1904 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS." 1911 - Mary Pickford marries Owen Moore. 1924 - George Gershwin completes Rhapsody in Blue. 1926 - George Burns marries Gracie Allen. 1927 - First international telephone call - New York City to London. 1927 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game. 1935 - World War II: Benito.
January 19 - (ā€ 1995) 1923 - Jean Stapleton, actress 1926 - Fritz Weaver, actor 1931 - Tippi Hedren, actress 1931 - Robert MacNeil, journalist 1939 - Phil Everly, musician 1942 - Michael Crawford, singer, actor 1943 - Janis Joplin, singer (ā€ 1970) 1943 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands 1945 - Maria Jespen, theologian 1946 - Dolly Parton, singer, actress 1949 - Robert Palmer, singer, guitarist (ā€ 2003) 1953 - Desi Arnaz Jr, actor 1955 - Simon Rattle, conductor 1971 - Shawn Wayans, actor, writer, producer 1982 - Jodie Sweetin, actress 1983 - Utada Hikaru, singer/composer/songwriter Deaths 1847 - Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer 1878 - Henri Victor Regnault physcisist and chemist 1969 - Jan Palach, political activist 1975 - Thomas Hart Benton, muralist 1990 - Herbert Wehner, German politician 1997 - James.
James L. Jones - June 1974, he was a student at the Amphibious Warfare School, Quantico, Virginia. In November 1974, he received orders to report to the 3d Marine Division on Okinawa, where he served as the Company Commander of Company H, 2d Battalion, 9th Marines, until December 1975. From January 1976 to August 1979, Jones served in the Officer Assignments Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, DC. During this assignment, he was promoted to Major in July 1977. Remaining in Washington, his next assignment was as the Marine Corps Liaison Officer to the United States Senate, where he served until July 1984. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in September 1982. He was selected to attend the National War College in Washington, DC. Following graduation in June 1985, he was assigned to command the.
