* 1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.

About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

* 2008 – Red Letter Year

Philippians: An Ancient Thank You Letter – A Study of Paul and His Ministry Partners ’ Relationship.

From 1952, Philby struggled to find work as a journalist, eventually – in August 1954 – accepting a position with a diplomatic newsletter called the Fleet Street Letter.

The term " New Left " was popularised in an open letter written in 1960 by sociologist C. Wright Mills ( 1916 – 62 ) entitled Letter to the New Left.

* 1924 – The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.

Later in his " Letter to Posterity ", Petrarch wrote: " In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair – my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames.

In May 1618 with the event known as the Defenestration of Prague, the Protestant Bohemians, in defence of the rights granted them in the Letter of Majesty, began the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ).

* April 16 – Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his Letter from Birmingham Jail.

* March 16 – Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is published.

* July 6 – Bohemia is granted freedom of religion ( Letter of Majesty ).

* " The Letter ", a poem by Wilfred Owen ( 1893 – 1918 )

* ( 42 ) Ad Helviam matrem, De consolatione ( To Helvia, On consolation ) – Letter to his mother consoling her on his absence during exile.

* Joan of Arc's Letter to Clermont-Ferrand – Translation by Allen Williamson of an entry concerning Joan of Arc's letter to this city on 7 November 1429.

An epistolary wonder tale with parallels suggesting its author knew the Romance of Alexander and the above-mentioned Acts of Thomas, the Letter was supposedly written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus ( 1143 – 1180 ) by Prester John, descendant of one of the Three Magi and King of India.

Zweig is best known for his novellas ( notably The Royal Game, Amok, Letter from an Unknown Woman – filmed in 1948 by Max Ophüls ), novels ( Beware of Pity, Confusion of Feelings, and the posthumously published The Post Office Girl ) and biographies ( notably Erasmus of Rotterdam, Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of Magellan, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles and also posthumously published, Balzac ).

* Letter from an Unknown Woman, 1922 ( Original title: Brief einer Unbekannten ) – novella

* Taking it to the Letter – 1981

These suspicions were further aroused when imperial officials ordered Protestants to stop erecting Protestant churches on the land of the prince of the church or Stifts, which the Protestants claimed to be comprised under the term " royal land " ( the Stifts did not belong to the Bohemian Estates ) which was open to them due to the Letter of Majesty – a very disputed legal interpretation of which the government disapproved.

* Letter from America ( 1946 – 2004 ): Commentary on American news and events by Alistair Cooke.

On 2 March 2004, at the age of 95, following advice from his doctors, Cooke announced his retirement from Letter from America – after 58 years, the longest-running speech radio show in the world.

* Letter from America: The Early Years 1946 – 1968

In the lingo of the poker variation Texas Hold ' em, the hole cards Ace – King ( unsuited ) are sometimes referred to as an " Anna Kournikova ", a term introduced by the poker commentator Vince van Patten during a WPT tournament because it " looks great but never wins ".

* 1199 – King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.

* 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.

* 1782 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke ( Rama I ) of Siam ( modern day Thailand ) founded the Chakri dynasty.

* 1948 – Perry King, American actor

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.

* 1593 – Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.

* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.

* 586 BC – Solomon's Temple is totally destroyed by the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar.

* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.

* 1913 – Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.

* 1983 – Stephen James King, Australian actor

* 1205 – King Amalric II of Jerusalem ( b. 1145 )

* 1947 – King George II of Greece ( b. 1890 )

Grimwald, King of the Lombards ( 662 – 671 ), and his young son and successor Garibald ( 671 ), were the last Arian kings in Europe.

* 1946 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ( King Crimson and Bad Company ) ( d. 2006 )

* 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

* 936 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.

* 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.

* 1709 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal

* 1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.