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 founding.
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.
KANU - death in August 1978, Vice President Daniel arap Moi became interim President. On October 14, Moi became President formally after he was elected head of KANU and designated its sole nominee. In June 1982, the National Assembly amended the constitution, making Kenya officially a one-party state, and parliamentary elections were held in September 1983. The 1988 elections reinforced the one-party system. However, in December 1991, parliament repealed the one-party section of the constitution. By early 1992, several new parties had formed, and multiparty elections were held in December 1992. President Moi was reelected for another 5-year term. Opposition parties won about 45% of the parliamentary seats, but President Moi's KANU Party obtained the majority of seats. Parliamentary reforms in November 1997 enlarged the democratic space in Kenya, including the expansion of.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis - Landis dealt with several cases of historical significance during his career as a US federal judge. In 1907, he presided over a Standard Oil antitrust trial fining them $29 million for accepting rail freight rebates, although the verdict was later set aside. In 1918, he held the trial of a number of union leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World for violating the Espionage Act. After his judicial career, Landis was the first Commissioner of Major League Baseball, serving from his election in November 1920 until his death in 1944. He is credited with restoring public confidence in the integrity of baseball following the 1919 Black Sox scandal. His detractors claim he perpetuated the color line and prolonged the segregation of organized baseball. He was elected to the Baseball Hall.
Kemal Atatürk - Kemal Atatürk (March 12, 1881 - November 10, 1938), Turkish soldier and statesman, was the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey. Some consider him one of the most progressive reformist figures in Turkish history; others, especially many conservative Muslims, remember him as a traitor to the Islamic faith. Born in Salonika (Thessaloniki) as Mustafa Kemal (later given the title Pasha), he entered the military secondary school in Salonika in 1893 and the military academy at Monastir (now Bitola) in 1895. After playing a minor role in the Balkan Wars of 1912 - 1913, he gained a major victory by repulsing the Allied invasion of Gallipoli in 1915. Kemal organized the Turkish Nationalist Republican Party in 1919 from local resistance groups. This group overthrew the incumbent Ottoman Sultan Mehmed.
Kfar Kassem massacre - Kassem/Qassem/Qasim/al-Qassim, etc) October 29, 1956. It was carried out by the 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.
Khaosai Galaxy - 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 day. It was the only fight Galaxy would ever lose. He won his next three fights, including a knockout of Saksuree, and finally claimed the Thai bantamweight title early in 1982. In fact, after taking his only loss, Galaxy won 15 consecutive fights by knockout and shot up the world rankings to become super flyweight (115-pound) WBA world champion Jiro Watanabe's mandatory challenger by the summer of 1984. When Watanabe.
Kiev - 882 until 1169 Kiev was the capital of the principal Varangian/East-Slavic state, known as Kievan Rus' (or Kyivan Rus'). Devastated by the invading Mongols in 1240, it subsequently passed under the rule of Lithuania (1362), Poland (1569), a short-lived Ukrainian Cossack state (1648), and Russia (1654-1667). On September 19, 1941 during World War II as part of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany occupied Kiev. On September 29 and 30 at Babi Yar, near Kiev, SS Einsatzgruppen carried out the mass murder of 33,771 Jews. The city remained in German hands until it was retaken by the Soviet Red Army on November 6, 1943. After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, Kiev in 1991 became the capital of independent Ukraine. The church of Hagia.
Vernonia, Oregon - 0.49% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 0.54% from other races, and 1.93% from two or more races. 2.24% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 789 households out of which 41.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.4% are married couples living together, 10.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 26.0% are non-families. 20.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 7.4% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.82 and the average family size is 3.29. In the city the population is spread out with 34.0% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 18.9% from 45 to 64, and.
Kingdom of Romania - upholds Romanian unification. 1921 (Generally unsuccessful) agrarian reform. 1923 Liberal constitution of 1923. Christian National Defense League (LANC) founded. 1924 LANC member (later Iron Guard founder) C.Z. Codreanu assassinates Prefect of Police in Iaşi but is acquitted. 1926 Liberal Electoral Law adopted. "Little Entente" with Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia and Franco-Romanian Treaty. 1927 National Peasant Party takes over government from National Liberal Party. Legion of the Archangel Michael, later Iron Guard, splits off from LANC. Carol II becomes Regent, with his 5-year-old son Michael (Mihai) as king. 1929 Beginning of the Great Depression. 1930 Carol II crowned King. 1931 First ban on Iron Guard. 1933 (February 16) Griviţa Railcar Workshops strike violently put down by police. (December 10) Prime Minister Ion Duca "dissolves" the Iron Guard, arresting thousands; 19 days later he.
Kim Ng - the case of Alex Fernandez. In 1997, she was hired by the New York Yankees as assistant general manager, which made her youngest in the major leagues, at age 29. She joined the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2001 as assistant GM. In November 2003, she was involved in an incident when New York Mets special assistant to the general manager Bill Singer mocked her ethnic Chinese background. (Her father was U.S.-born of Chinese descent and mother Thailand-born of Chinese descent.) Singer was dismissed for his remarks on November 18, 2003..
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..
Knoxville, Tennessee - is also the home of the University of Tennessee's primary campus (UTK). The university's sports teams, called the "Volunteers" or "Vols", are extremely popular in the surrounding area. In fact, the area code comprising Knoxville and nearby Oak Ridge is 865 (VOL). During the American Civil War, the Battle of Campbell Station was fought here on November 16, 1863. In that battle Confederate troops led by General James Longstreet unsuccessfully attacked Union forces under General Ambrose Burnside. The next day the two week long Siege of Knoxville began when Longstreet placed Knoxville under siege. The siege failed and Longstreet returned with his men to General Robert E. Lee. Knoxville hosted the 1982 World's Fair. Knoxville is also the home of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, thanks partly to the popularity.
Korean War order of battle - 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 Air Force US Eighth Army Korean War order of battle US Seventh Fleet Korean War order of battle US Fifth Air Force Korean War order of battle US Far East Air Forces Bomber Command order of battle.
Krusty the Klown - Krustofski, voiced by Jackie Mason, apparently hoped that his own son would follow in his footsteps. The episode featured him bragging that Herschel was on top of his Yeshiva class. However Herschel chose to become a clown instead. Consequently, the Rabbi disowned him. Years later, Krusty memorably reconciled with his father. This was achieved with the assistance of Bart and Lisa. It has been noted that Krusty was supposedly illiterate in Krusty Gets Busted, first released on April 29, 1990, where Sideshow Bob framed him for armed robbery. He has since been seen reading with varying ability. Through his unnamed mother Krusty is reportedly an older half-brother to actor Luke Perry. His only other known relative is his illegitimate daughter Sophie, whose voice actor was Drew Barrymore. She was introduced in.
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.
Kut - Kut. Kut in World War I Kut was the scene of fierce battle during World War I. The British Mesopotanian Expeditionary Force, led by General Sir Charles V. F. Townshend, marched north from Basra in September of 1915. They reached Kut on September 26 where after three days of fighting they drove the Ottoman forces from the town. Townshend pursued the retreating Ottomans up river until defeated at Ctesiphon on November 21, and then withdrew back to Kut. On December 7, 1915 the Turks and their Arab allies counter attacked and put the British under siege. A force under Colonel Gerald Leachman succeded in breaking out, but Townshend and the bulk of the force remained besieged. After gathering reinforcements including regiments from India Leachman tried to relieve Townshend, but each time.
Kuroiso - the city has an estimated population of 60,145 and the density of 175.29 persons per km². The total area is 343.12 km². The city was founded on November 1, 1970. External Links Official website in Japanese.
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.
