January 15 - January 15 January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 350 days remaining (351 in leap years). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1559 - Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey. 1582 - Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland. 1759 - The British Museum opens. 1777 - American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence. 1782 - Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United States Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage. 1844 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter from Indiana. 1870 - A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party.
June 15 - June 15 June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse 923 - Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed, King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy 1094 - Valencia falls to El Cid 1215 - King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta 1616 - Pacifique Duplessis opens first school for Indian children in Canada, at Tadoussac, Quebec 1389 - Battle of Kosovo: Turks defeat Serbs and Bosnians 1590 - Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther.
July 15 - July 15 July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Jerusalem after a difficult siege. 1410 - Battle of Grunwald (a.k.a. Tannenberg or Zalgiris), power of the Teutonic Knights broken by a defeat from Poles and Lithuanians. 1685 - In England, the Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, after he was defeated at the Battle of Sedgemore. 1799 - In the Egyptian village of Rosette, French Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone. 1806 - Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike leads an expedition.
Karl August von Hardenberg - von Hardenberg (May 31, 1750 - November 26, 1822), Prussian statesman, was born at Essenroda in Hanover. Biography After studying at Leipzig and Göttingen he entered the Hanoverian civil service in 1770 as councillor of the board of domains (Katnmerrat); but, finding his advancement slow, he set out--on the advice of King George III--on a course of travels, spending some time at Wetzlar, Regensburg (where he studied the mechanism of the Imperial government), Vienna and Berlin. He also visited France, the Netherlands and England, where he was kindly received by the king. On his return he married, by his father's desire, the countess Reventlow. In 1778 he was raised to the rank of privy councillor and created a count. He now again went to England, in the hope of obtaining the.
Karl Liebknecht - 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 and a daughter.
Kathleen Blanco - Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (born December 15, 1942 in Iberia Parish, Louisiana) is an American politician. On November 15, 2003, she was elected Governor of Louisiana, defeating Republican opponent Bobby Jindal in a run-off election and becoming the first woman to gain that office. Kathleen Blanco is a conservative member of the Democratic Party. She was formerly Louisiana's lieutenant governor, having served two terms in that office, starting 1996. She graduated from University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1964. On 11 January of 2004 she took the oath of office in both English and French, succeeding Murphy J. Foster as Governor of Louisiana..
Kamen - 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 powered.
Ken Livingstone - he favoured European integration and proportional representation (neither of which were particularly popular causes among the British left at that time), and when both the GLC and the Militant-controlled Merseyside council protested the government's rate-capping policy by refusing to set a property tax rate, Livingstone relented rather than face the withdrawl of government grant money. Livingstone's practicality (relative to the rest of the Labour left) may in part explain why his popularity grew at a time when other "hard left" figures like Benn and the Militants found themselves increasingly isolated from the general public. Following the Conservative sweep in the 1983 general election, the Tories forged ahead with their long-standing plan to abolish the GLC and devolve control to the individual boroughs. The GLC mounted a massive (and expensive) campaign to.
Venera - of the pair. 1VA (proto-Venera) - Flyby - launched February 4, 1961 : Failed to leave earth orbit Venera 1 - Flyby - launched February 12, 1961 : Communications lost 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.
Kevin Mitnick - (black-hat hackers) to be jailed and convicted. Mitnick was arrested by the FBI on February 15, 1995 and charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems. Following his arrest, Mitnick was held without bail for over two years before sentencing: he has said that he set some kind of United States record by being held for four and a half years without a bail hearing, while also held in solitary confinement for eight months "in order to prevent a possible nuclear strike being initiated by me from a prison payphone". The course of his trial and punishment became a cause celebre amongst the hacker community. This movement was spearheaded by 2600's "Free Kevin" campaign. He was released from prison in January 2002, but banned from using.
Kefallinia - charter flights from all over Europe. Kefallonia is located in the heart of an earthquake zone. Dozens of Minor tremors occur each year. In 1953 a massive Earthquake almost destroyed the island, with only Vasiliki in the north left untouched. Features Almost every community in Kephallonia has an ending with -ata like Lourdata, Favata, Delaportata, etc. Argostoli, Lixouri, and non-ata ending names are an exception. Off the North East coast is Ithaca, a island well known worldwide thanks to the Odyssey, an epic poem written by Homer. Odysseus was said by Homer to be the leader of the "Kefallinians", which is often offered as an explanation on why modern habitants of those two islands are so keen on travelling to other countries. In summer many tourists visit Kefalonia, however as one.
Kfar Kassem massacre - Israeli Border Police and resulted in 49 dead, including 15 women and 11 children aged 8 to 15. On that day, the 1956 Suez War had just begun. Though Jordan was not involved in the war, a 5 p.m. to dawn curfew was declared on all the Arab villages in the area close to the Jordanian border. However, many of the Arabs of Kfar Kassem were away from the village when the curfew was declared and were not informed about it. As they returned to the village after 5 p.m., they were lined up and shot dead by Israeli Border Police. According to the Border Police battalion commander Shmuel Melniki, he was given the order to kill the villagers by brigade commander Issachar Shadmi, but Shadmi denied it. Melniki claimed that.
Khaosai Galaxy - Galaxy Sura Saenkham (born May 15, 1959) was one of the sport of boxing's greatest champions ever, and a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. A native of Petchaboon, Thailand, Saenkham was a world champion in the sport of kickboxing in the early 1980s. As his star rose in his native Thailand, he did as many of his famous countrymen do, and adopted a "catchier" name. He has been known as Khaosai Galaxy ever since. In December, 1980, he turned his attentions to orthodox boxing and promptly won his first six fights. That earned him a shot at the Thailand bantamweight (118-pound) title on July 29, 1981 against Sakda Saksuree. Little did Saksuree realize he had made boxing history when he beat Galaxy on points over 10 rounds that.
Kid Gavilan - in 10 rounds in his first of three consecutive fights in Mexico City. It was there that he suffered his first defeat, at the hands of Carlos Macalara by a decision. They had an immediate rematch, this time in Havana, and Gavilan avenged that loss, winning by decision too. Gavilan had a record of 25 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw already when he had his first fight on American soil. This happened on November 1 of 1946, when he beat Johnny Ryan by a knockout in five at New York City. He would split his time between the Eastern coast of the United States and Havana in 1947, a year in which he went 11-1-1 with 3 knockouts. However, by 1948 he had decided to stay in the United States.
Kingdom of Laos - Kingdom of Laos On December 15, 1946, in the face of guerrilla raids from across the Mekong River, forty-four delegates to Laos's first popularly elected Constituent Assembly were chosen. Under French supervision, the delegates worked on a constitution promulgated by Sisavang Vong on May 11, 1947. This constitution declared the Kingdom of Laos an independent state within the French Union. On November 26, 1947, the thirty-three deputies of the first National Assembly invested a government headed by Prince Souvannarath, a half-brother of Phetsarath. By the terms of a secret protocol of February 25, 1948, Boun Oum was allowed to keep his title of Prince of Champassack but renounced his suzerain rights to this former kingdom. In return he was made inspector general of the Kingdom of Laos, the third-ranking.
King Biscuit Time - live blues radio program. The first broadcast of King Biscuit Time was on 21 November 1941 on KFFA in Helena, Arkansas and featured the legendary blues artists Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Jr. Lockwood. Williamson and Lockwood played live in the studio and were the key musicians in the original studio band, the King Biscuit Entertainers. Other musicians who joined the original band were Pinetop Perkins on piano and James Peck Curtis on drums. Williamson left the program in 1947 but returned for a stint in 1965 just prior to his death. The 15 minute long live radio show is broadcast at 12:45 every day and was named after the local flour company, King Biscuit Flour. The local grocery distributor financed the show at the behest of Williamson in exchange for.
Konstantin Chernenko - of the Central Committee in 1966 and a full member in 1971. He joined the Politburo in October 1977, becoming a full member in November 1978. Following the death of Brezhnev in 1982 Chernenko lost the power-struggle and nominated Yuri Andropov as General Secretary. Andropov died in February 1984 after less than 15 months in office. Chernenko was elected to replace him despite concerns over his health. The poor health of Chernenko made him unable to govern effectively. His frequent absences from office left little doubt that his reign had only been an interim measure in a longer struggle between conservatives and reformers. Preceded by: Yuri Andropov List of leaders of the Soviet Union Succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev.
Korean War order of battle - at the start of the war, on June 25 1950. General Headquarters United Nations Command - Formally activated 10 July 1950, before then Allied forces were formally under American operational control. US Army Forces Far East US Eighth Army US X Corps September 15 1950-December 24 1950 Republic of Korea Army ROK I Corps ROK II Corps US Naval Forces Far East US Seventh Fleet June 27 1950-End of war Task Force 90 Task Force 95 12 September 1950-End of war Task Force 96 British Far East Fleet June 28 1950-End of war Far East Air Forces US 31st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron (Photographic) June 29 1950-November 15 1950 US 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron (Medium, Photographic) November 15 1950-End of war US Fifth Air Force Far East Air Forces Bomber Command Twentieth.
Konrad Mägi - Konrad Mägi Konrad Mägi (November 1, 1878 - August 15, 1925) was an Estonian landscape painter. Mägi received his elementary art education in 1899–1902 from the drawing courses of the German Artisans' Society of Tartu. At the same time, he was keenly engaged in theater, violin play and different sports. He continued his art education in 1903–1905 as am unattached student in Saint Petersburg. In the autumn of 1907 he went to Paris. There he studied at a free academy. In 1908–1910 he lived in Norway. In 1912, he returned to Tartusse. He worked there as an art teacher. Konrad Mägi was one of the most colour sensitive Estonian painters of the first decades of the 20th century. In Åland, he made delicate plant vignettes in the style of Art.
Kristen Nygaard - School in System Development, which is closely linked to the field of Participatory Design. In June 1990 he received an honorary doctorate from Lund University, Sweden, and in June 1991 he became the first person to be given an honorary doctorate by Aalborg University, Denmark. He became a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science. In October 1990 Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility awarded him its Norbert Wiener Prize for responsibility in social and professional work. In 1999 he became - together with Dahl - the first to receive the Rosing Prize. This new prize is awarded by the Norwegian Data Association for exceptional professional achievements. In June 2000 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship for "his originating of object technology concepts" by the Object Management Group, the international standardisation organisation.
