In 1865, Leopold I, the first king of the Belgians and a highly influential in European diplomacy, died.
In 2006, he was Rex, the first King of Carnival after Hurricane Katrina.
Evidence unearthed beneath Parliament Square suggests that Cnut, the Dane who ruled England during 1016-35, may have been the first king to build a palace at Westminster.
Over the course of a few days, she went from being plain old Peggielene Bartels, who had worked for nearly three decades at the Ghanaian Embassy in the United States, to becoming King Peggy -- the first female king of Otuam, reigning over approximately 7, 000 people.
The legal status of the Nepalese settlers was one of the first things the king updated.
The first Plantagenet king of England, Henry II, is important to contemporary small business owners because he founded the legal system that paved the way for modern entrepreneurship.
Beechcraft introduced the first Super King Air 200 series in 1974, and while new competitors, including a wide range of light jets, have tried to upstage this venerable turbo-prop, its popularity has not diminished.
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Long before the uprisings on the streets of Ferguson or Baltimore, the 1992 L.A. riots in the wake of the first verdict in the Rodney King case had an undeniable effect on the city's urban youth.
Norway presented the zoo with its first king penguin in 1913, the year of its opening.
King rise to the top, King first credits his manager, his record companies, his agents.
When the King first began touring Bhutan, people were too awestruck to confront him about their needs.
He will be the Netherlands' first king since Willem III died in 1890.
For the first time since King Hussein revoked their citizenship rights, today there appears to be a willingness among members of Jordan's ruling class to engage in discussion toward reinstating them.
Both sides had led at one stage during a tight first half, with Matt King scoring the first of a brace of tries to give the Wolves an early lead.
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And the visitors took the lead for the first time when youngster Cameron King burst through from close range after throwing a dummy from the play the ball.
The photograph was first seen at King's College London during a Royal Institution lecture on colour theory by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell on the 17 May 1861 and the college is marking the 150th anniversary of that demonstration with an evening of talks celebrating his scientific discoveries.
The first carpets were bought by the likes of King George III and Queen Charlotte, who visited the factory.
The Beechcraft King Air first took to the skies in 1964, and for the past five decades it has continued to dominate the market, outselling all of its turboprop competitors combined.
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In most folktales, when a young man sets off to rescue the princess and become the king, one of the first tests of his mettle involves generosity.
Before the meeting, Obama toured the Martin Luther King charter school -- the first charter school to reopen in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, the hardest-hit portion of the city.
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King was the first woman to earn six figures in a season, back in 1971.
In 1952, King Farouk the First of Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.
The king achieved the first three of these, 13 of the laws have been amended and educational reform is under way.
The version that became part of the first English statute in 1297 was the one signed by King Henry III in 1225.
Anthony, trying to become the first Knicks player since Bernard King in 1984-85 to win a scoring title, was off target in this one.
If you watch the filmed record of the event, all you see is the shift itself, with King mostly reading the script in the first half of the speech, to him directly addressing the crowd in the second half.
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The Scottish flyer's try also claimed a bonus point for Scarlets, with Regan King having crossed in the first half.
Bush will host King's family at the White House, while first lady Laura Bush plans to visit King's hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.
The King laughed for the first time, a cackle edged, like a burnt cookie, with bitterness.
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