Jolson, Al. 1886-1950. US Vaudeville and Broadway performer. First talking film: The Jazz Singer 1927.

Jones, Inigo. 1573-1652. English architect who introduced Palladian style. Greenwich House 1616. Whitehall Banquet Hall 1619.

July Ordinances. 1830. Charles X attempts to censor press and alter electoral process causing July Revolution.

June Days. 1848. Paris workers uprising. Cavaignac’s military rule kills 10,000 to restore order.

Ka’bah. Shrine in Great Mosque. Moslem Hijrah pilgrimage objective. Contains Black Stone of Mecca given to Adam to absorb his sins. Kidnaped 930-950.

Kandy. 15C-1818. Sinhalese kingdom in Ceylon overthrown by Britain.

Kapodistrias, Count. 1776-1831. Autocratic Greek president,1828-. Assassinated.

Kennedy, John. 1917-63. US President 1961-. -“New Frontier”. Peace Corps. Apollo Program. Cuban Missile Crisis. Assassinated by Oswald. Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.

Kennedy, Robert. 1925-68. US attorney-general 1961-4. Assassinated while running for presidential nomination.

Khrushchev, Nikita. 1894-1971. Soviet leader 1953-64. Berlin Wall 1961. Hungarian Uprising 1956. Malenkov.

Kiel Mutiny. 1918. Navy mutiny causes German uprising. Weimar Republic.

King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1929-68. US non-violent black Civil Rights activist. Assassinated.

Kissinger, Henry. 1923-. German/US political scientist. US Secretary of State 1973-7. Shuttle Diplomacy.

Kosovo. Predominantly Albanian province of southwest Serbia, Yugoslavia. 1996-99 KLA rebels seek autonomy. Serbian ethnic cleansing.

Labourers, Statute. 1351. Parliament’s freezing of rising wages after plague leads to Peasants Revolt.

Lanark. 1779-1830. Owen’s cooperative Scottish business. 10½ hour day. Health and pension insurance.

Lapse, Doctrine of. British East India Company claimed control of any state where direct royal line ended causing Indian Mutiny 1857. Dalhousie.

Lauder, Harry. 1870-1950. Scot singer/composer: Roamin’ in the Gloamin’.

La Voisin. Burned at the stake for selling “inheritance powder” (poison), 1680. Poisons Affair.

Lee Kuan Yew. 1923-. First Singapore Prime Minister 1965-90.

Leo IX, St. 1002-54. Pope 1049-. Excommunicated Cerularius, causing East-West Schism.

Lessing, Doris. 1919-. Iran./Rhodesian/British novelist. The Children of Violence 1964.

Lessing, Gotthold. 1729-81. German Movement dramatist. Laokoon 1765. Minna von Barnheim 1767. Nathan the Wise 1779.

Leutze, Emanuel. 1816-68. US painter. Washington Crossing the Delaware 1851.

Lewis, Sinclair. 1885-1951. US writer of small town life: Babbit 1922. Elmer Gantry 1927.

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