January 17 - January 17 January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 348 days remaining (349 in leap years) Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1562 - Huguenots were recognized under the Edict of St. Germain. 1773 - Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle. 1781 - Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina. 1819 - Simon Bolivar proclaims the Republic of Colombia. 1852 - United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal. 1873 - First Battle of the Stronghold in the US Modoc War 1893 - American sugar planters overthrow the government.
June 17 - June 17 June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1579 - Sir Francis Drake claims California for England 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Bunker Hill is fought 1776 - American invasion of Quebec ends 1856 - The United States Republican Party holds its first political convention, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (they will eventually nominate John C. Fremont as their first Presidential candidate) 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor 1903 - Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage 1930 - President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff into law.
July 17 - July 17 July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 167 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa, executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. 1762 - Catherine II becomes tzar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia. 1771 - Massacre at Bloody Falls: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his arctic overland journey, masacre a group of unsuspecting Inuit. 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort to British forces. 1867 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard.
Karl of Austria - Franz Josef Ludwig Hubert Georg Maria von Habsburg (August 17, 1887 - April 1, 1922) was the last Emperor of Austria and the last King of Hungary (as Charles IV of Hungary) and of the Habsburg Dynasty. He reigned from 1916 until his abdication on November 11, 1918. He sought to reclaim the throne of Hungary in the early 1920s. Karl has generally been seen by historians as an honourable figure who tried as emperor-king to halt World War I. On 14 April 2003 the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in the presence of Pope John Paul II, promulgated Karl of Austria's "heroic virtues", a step on the road to sainthood in Roman Catholicism. Karl was the son of Archduke Otto Franz Joseph, younger brother of the Archduke Franz.
Kate Greenaway - Greenaway (Catherine Greenaway) ( London, March 17, 1846 - November 6, 1901) was a children's book illustrator and writer. Her first book, Under The Window (1879), a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses concerning children who endlessly gathered posies, untouched by the Industrial Revolution, was a best-seller. The Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded annually by the Library Association of Great Britain to an illustrator of children's books. New techniques of photolithography enabled her delicate watercolors to be reproduced. Through the 1880s and 90s, in popularity her only rivals in the field of children's book illustration were Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott, himself also the eponym of a highly-regarded prize medal. 'Kate Greenaway' children, all of them little girls and boys too young to be put in trousers, according to the conventions.
Karsten Niebuhr - commonly known as Carsten Niebuhr) (March 17, 1733 - April 26, 1815) was a German traveller. He was born at Ludingwortb, Lauenburg, on the southern border of Holstein, the son of a small farmer. He had little education, and for several years of his youth had to do the work of a peasant. His bent was towards mathematics, and he managed to obtain some lessons in surveying. It was while he was working at this subject that one of his teachers, in 1760, proposed to him to join the expedition which was being sent out by Frederick V of Denmark for the scientific exploration of Egypt, Arabia and Syria. To qualify himself for the work of surveyor and geographer, he studied hard at mathematics for a year and a half before.
Kalle Päätalo - Päätalo Kaarlo (Kalle) Alvar Päätalo (November 11, 1919 - November 20, 2000) was a Finnish novelist, the most popular Finnish writer in the 20th century. Päätalo was born in Taivalkoski, Province of Oulu, into poor circumstances. His father, a lumberjack, suffered from periodical mental disorders, and Kalle had to maintain his family from the age of 14 in his father's profession. At the same time, he dreamed about becoming a writer and read avidly, being much influenced by Jack London's Martin Eden and Mika Waltari's guidebook for aspiring writers. His war service in Winter War and Continuation War was cut short by being wounded. After the wars, he moved to Tampere where he studied at technical school, becoming a building contractor, and wrote short stories that were published in various magazines..
Kamen - A variant of the OH-43, equipped with a Lycoming T-53 turbine engine HH-43B Rotor diameter: 14.33 m each Length: 7.62 m Height: 4.74 m Weight: 2000 kg - Max: 4150 Engine: 1 Avco Lycoming T53-L-1B of 825 hp Speed: Max: 190 km/h Range: 450 km Service Ceiling: 7600 m July 1957 : QH-43 Another modified HTK-1 becomes the world's first remotely piloted vehicle 1958 : K-17 A cold-tipped jet powered helicopter Rotor diameter: 11.3 m Weight: 430 kg - Max: 900 Engine: 1 Turbomeca Turmo of 600 hp Speed: Max: 120 km/h Endurance: 2 hours Service Ceiling: 1500 m July 2, 1959 : HU2K-1 Later known as UH-2A SeaSprite March 1960 : Kaman develops and flies the first all composite main rotor blade. October 1961 : The H-43 Huskie sets an.
Ken Livingstone - Livingstone Ken Livingstone (born June 17, 1945), Mayor of London 2000 - present, was born in Lambeth, London. He was Labour MP for Brent East between 1987 and 2001. He is also known as "Red Ken", a tabloid sobriquet, and is famous for his predilection for keeping newts. Livingstone worked for eight years as a cancer research technician and also trained as a teacher. He was elected to the Lambeth borough council in 1971 and served as Vice-Chair of the Housing Committee from 1971 to 1973. (Among his fellow Lambeth councillors was John Major.) He became a Labour member of the Greater London Council in 1973 and served as Vice-Chair of Housing Mangement in 1974-1975. He also served on the Camden council from 1978 to 1982 and unsuccessfully stood for Parliament.
Ken Kesey - Ken Kesey Ken Kesey (September 17, 1935 - November 10, 2001) was an American author and prolific throughout his life but he was probably best known as the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as a cultural icon who some consider something of a link between the "beat generation" of the 1950s and the "hippies" of the 1960s. Born in La Junta, Colorado, he spent much of his youth in the Pacific Northwest. There he married Faye Haxby, with whom he had three children, Jed, Zane and Shannon. He attended the University of Oregon, where he received a degree in speech and communication and was an Olympic-caliber wrestler. He was awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship in 1958; he moved to Palo Alto, California to enroll in the.
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.
Kerry Thornley - Thornley Kerry Wendell Thornley (April 17, 1938 - November 28, 1998) was the co-founder of Discordianism, in which context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst. He served in the same platoon as Lee Harvey Oswald in 1959 and wrote a book about him, The Idle Warriors, the only book written about Oswald prior to President Kennedy's assassination in 1963..
KGB - Soviet external security and intelligence agency, as well as the main secret police agency from March 13, 1954 to November 6, 1991. The KGB's domain was roughly that of the American CIA and the counterintelligence division of the FBI. In March of 1953, Lavrenty Beria united the MVD and MGB into one body, the MVD. Within a year, Beria was executed and the MVD was split up. The reformed MVD retained its internal security functions while the new KGB took on external security functions. The KGB was subordinated to the Council of Ministers. On July 5, 1978 the KGB was renamed the "KGB of the USSR" with the KGB Chairman given a seat on the council. The KGB was dissolved due to the participation of its chief, Colonel General Vladimir Kryuchkov,.
Kitamoto - the city has an estimated population of 70,237 and the density of 3,540.17 persons per km². The total area is 19.84 km². The city was founded on November 3, 1971. External Links Official website in Japanese.
Kingman Brewster, Jr. - Jr. Kingman Brewster, Jr., (June 17, 1919 - November 8, 1988) was an educator, President of Yale University, and an American diplomat. He graduated from Yale in 1941, where he was chairman of the "Yale Daily News", and received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1948. After teaching at Harvard Law School from 1950 to 1960, he accepted the post of Provost at Yale, serving from 1960 to 1963. Upon the death of President A. Whitney Griswold, he was named President of Yale University, serving from 1963 to 1977. He was known for the improvements he made to Yale's faculty, curriculum, and admissions policies, and for his skillful handling of student protests during the protests against the Vietnam War, which he himself opposed. His presidency was also marked by.
Velvet Revolution - revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the communist government there. It started on November 17, 1989 when a peaceful student demonstration in Prague was severely beaten back by the communist riot police. That event sparked a popular uprising that prompted people to take to the streets. By November 20 the number of peaceful protestors assembled in Prague swelled from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million. Then with other communist regimes falling all around it, and with growing street protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announced on November 28 they would give up their monopoly on political power. Democratic elections held on December 29, 1989 brought the first non-communist government to Czechoslovakia in more than 40 years..
Konoe Fumimaro - the military, but he turned increasingly militaristic himself. After the Marco Polo Bridge incident in July 1937 and under pressure from hard-liners, his cabinet agreed to expand operations in China and handed the entire conduct of the conflict in China to the military leaders to progress without government oversight. In November, Konoye announced Japan's aim of a new order in Asia, what would become the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere, and pressed China for concessions to end the Sino-Japanese War. He resigned on January 4 1939 over his failure to negotiate an end to the conflict in China. Hiranuma Kiichiro succeeded him as Prime Minister. Konoe returned to the premiership on July 17, 1940, and despite negotiations with America he oversaw the build-up to war with Vice Admiral Toyoda Teijiro succeeding.
Korbinian Brodmann - Korbinian Brodmann Korbinian Brodmann (November 17, 1868 - August 22, 1918) was a german neurologist which has become famous based on his definition of brain regions from their cytoarchitectonic characteristics. These areas are now usually referred to as Brodmann areas. Links Korbinian Brodmann (1868-1918), Laurence Garey.
Kristallnacht - Broken Glass, involved a massive pogrom against Jewish citizens throughout Germany in the night from November 9 to November 10, 1938. On November 7, 1938, Ernst vom Rath, secretary of the German Embassy in Paris, was shot dead by Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish German who had fled to France. Herschel had received a letter from his family, who had been deported from Germany to Poland on October 28, together with 17,000 other Jews. Many of these people had resided most of their lives in Germany: some were decorated German veterans of the first World War. Without warning, the Nazis gathered these German-Polish families in the middle of the night and deported them to Poland. The Polish government refused to admit them. This impasse resulted in trudging between the German and Polish.
January - 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, October, November, December Historical anniversaries January 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Or a less condensed format: January 1 2 3.
