He worked first in Kassa ( Košice ), then later in Budapest.

Hrbatý broke through for his first ATP title in 1998 in San Marino and defended his title in Košice.

The first major privilege was granted in Košice by Louis Andegavin on September 17, 1374.

The first international game took place in May 1909, when Pogoń went to Košice, losing 0: 5 to the champion of northern Hungary, Kassai AC.

While Emperor Ferdinand was occupied with the Bohemian rebellion of 1618, Bethlen led his armies into Royal Hungary in August 1619 and occupied the town of Kassa ( Košice ) in September, where his Protestant supporters declared him " head " of Hungary and protector of the Protestants.

Gelnica (, ) is a town in the Košice Region of Slovakia.

The town lies at the both banks of Hnilec, has an altitude of 375 m, and is located around from Košice.

Carpathian Ruthenia, Carpatho-Ukraine, or Zakarpattia ( Rusyn and Ukrainian: Карпатська Русь, Karpats ’ ka Rus ’; or Закарпаття, Zakarpattya ; ; Slovak and Czech: Podkarpatská Rus ; ; ; ); ( Russian: Подкарпатская Русь, Podkarpatskaya Rus ’; or Закарпатье, Zakarpatye, is a region in Eastern Europe, mostly located in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast ( Ukrainian: Zakarpats ’ ka oblast ’), with smaller parts in easternmost Slovakia ( largely in Prešov kraj and Košice kraj ) and Poland's Lemkovyna.

Among those who were able achieve this was Ladislav Troják ; A native of Košice who left for Prague to play for the LTC Praha – at those times considered to be the best ice hockey team in the country — in 1934.

The album, although written in Košice, Eastern Slovakia, and Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, is influenced by traditional British folk, as well as rock music, and will be released on PoppyDisc Records in spring 2010.

# King Louis grants a coat of arms to Kassa: Kassa ( today: Košice, Slovakia ) was granted a coat of arms by Louis the Great in 1369.

In addition, it cost Slovakia its second-largest city, Košice, and left the capital, Bratislava, vulnerable to further Hungarian pressure.

It is located in the north-eastern Slovakia, at the northern reaches of the Košice Basin, at the confluence of the Torysa River with its tributary Sekčov.

Additionally, Košice-okolie ( KS ) comprises an area around Košice ( the city itself excluded ) while having its seat in the city proper.

Cities along its course are Spišská Nová Ves and Košice, both in Slovakia and its tributaries include Hnilec River and Torysa.

The ten wax figures portray the king, his queen, the envoy from Košice ( Kassa ) and several courtiers ( See: Coat of arms of Košice ).

* 1941 – World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary ( now Košice, Slovakia ), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.

Voight's paternal grandfather was a Slovak immigrant from Košice, then under Austro-Hungarian rule, while his maternal grandfather and his maternal grandmother's parents were immigrants from Germany.

In the same year he obtained a job as clerk in the treasury of the Hungarian city of Kassa ( Košice ), and there, in conjunction with other two Hungarian patriots, edited the Magyar Museum, which was suppressed by the government in 1792.

The earliest two-towered Baroque church was built by the Jesuits from 1718 to 1724 on the pattern of Košice and was later handed over to the Piarists.

Masaryk and Milan Rastislav Štefánik | Štefánik's monument in Košice, Slovakia.

After the Treaty of Trianon, Hungary lost Kassa ( today Košice, Slovakia ) and Miskolc became the sole regional center of northern Hungary.

A highly rated composer was František Xaver Budinský ( 1676 – 1727 ), who appears to have been a Jesuit lay brother and worked in Trnava, Prešov, Košice, Trenčín, and elsewhere in Slovakia.

There are opera companies in Bratislava, Košice and Banská Bystrica.

Internationally, U. S. Steel operates facilities in Slovakia ( former East Slovakian Iron Works in Košice ) and Serbia ( former Sartid company with facilities in Smederevo ( steel plant, hot and cold mill ) and Šabac ( tin mill ).

Before joining the Capitals he played for TJ VSŽ Košice ( now called HC Košice ) for four seasons from 1986-90 in Czechoslovakia.

Czech Airlines operate 32 monopoly routes from Prague Airport, including two domestic routes to Ostrava and Karlovy Vary, alongside with the feeding routes from Slovak city Košice.

At the two Diets held by him, at Kassa ( today Košice, Slovakia ) and Tállya, in 1683, the estates, though not uninfluenced by his personal charm, showed some want of confidence in him, fearing lest he might sacrifice the national independence to the Turkish alliance.

It is one of only four synagogues in Slovakia ( in Bratislava, Košice, Bardejov and Nové Zámky ) that are used for religious purposes by the local Jewish community.

In 1948, it became part of the newly created Košice Region ( Košický kraj ) and Prešov Region ( Prešovský kraj ), whose borders however were completely different from those of the present-day regions of the same name.

Since 1996, Spiš has been divided between the modern Košice Region and Prešov Region and is covered approximately by the following six administrative districts: Poprad, Kežmarok, Stará Ľubovňa, Spišská Nová Ves, Levoča and Gelnica, except for the eastern half of the Stará Ľubovňa District and three villages of the Poprad district ( Štrba including Tatranská Štrba, Štrbské Pleso and Liptovská Teplička from Liptov county.

Abov is situated some 20 km to both sides along the Hornád river ( in Hungarian: Hernád ) around Košice.

During World War II, when Czechoslovakia was temporarily split, most of the Czechoslovak part of the county was returned to Hungary under the First Vienna Award, and added to the county Abaúj-Torna, with capital Košice.

A small part of the region is located in the Košice Region, with Košice-okolie, and very small parts of Košice I and Gelnica districts.

Before becoming president, he was a mayor ( Slovak: primátor ) of Košice in 1983 – 1986 and 1994 – 1999 respectively.

A good many pages of the first section are taken up with an account of the dogged determination of the prisoners to write to their wives and families -- even when it becomes clear that the Germans are simply allowing the letters to blow away in the wind.

A professor at the University of Constantinople, where his first course of lectures was on Nietzsche and the `` philosophy of action '', Vincent Berger becomes head of the propaganda department of the German Embassy in Turkey.

Independence Day is the appropriate date as a symbolical reminder of the American article of faith that governments are instituted among men to secure to them certain inalienable rights, the first of which is life, and when any government becomes subversive of that end, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.

* 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.

* 1961 – The Russian ( Soviet ) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 ( Vostok 1 ).

* 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.

* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

* 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

* 1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.

* 1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.

* 1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the first and only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.

* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.

The first approach is to compute the statistical moments by separating the data into bins and then computing the moments from the geometry of the resulting histogram, which effectively becomes a one-pass algorithm for higher moments.

If we neglect higher than first order terms in the fluctuations, the mass balance equation becomes

* 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.

* 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state

* 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.

* 1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.

* 1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel ( she drops out less than a week later ).

* 1913 – Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan ( modern day Tohoku University ) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.

* 1978 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.

* 2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.

* 1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.

* 1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.