* 1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.

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* 1913 – Khalid bin Abdul-Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia ( d. 1982 )

* 1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

( King Khalid succeeds Faisal.

** Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

King Khalid Air Base ( KMX ) has a paved runway without customs facilities.

that Brzezinski, in 1980, secured an agreement from King Khalid of Saudi Arabia to match U. S. contributions to the Afghan effort dollar for dollar and that Bill Casey would keep that agreement going through the Reagan administration.

* The Egyptian Magazine " Noon ", Cairo-Egypt – History of Prince Rashed Al-Khuzai with King Abdul Aziz Al Saud, an article that was published by the American Writer Mr. Muneer Husainy & the Saudi Historian Mr. Khalid Al-Sudairy. This article was published at 27 November 2009.

King Faisal instituted modern and secular reforms that led to the installation of television, which provoked violent protest, one which was led by Prince Khalid, who during the course of an attack on a television station was shot dead by a policeman.

Kerik was honorably discharged from the Army in July 1977 and worked briefly for the Interstate Revenue Research Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, as an investigator before joining the Morrison Knudson Saudi Arabia Consortium ( MKSAC ) in April 1978, where he was employed as a security officer at the King Khalid Military City in Hafar Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia, for nearly two and a half years.

On 25 March 1975, King Faisal was assassinated by his nephew and King Khalid assumed power.

When King Khalid died on 13 June 1982, Fahd succeeded to the throne.

Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ( ; 13 February 1913 – 13 June 1982 ) was King of Saudi Arabia from 1975 to 1982.

King Khalid was born in Riyadh on 13 February 1913.

King Khalid had only one full-brother, Prince Muhammad.

At age 14, Khalid bin Abdulaziz was sent by King Abdulaziz as his representative to the desert tribes to hear their concerns and problems.

Prince Khalid served as advisor of King Faisal.

During the rivalry between King Saud and Prince Faisal, Prince Khalid supported the latter together with other princes who were members of Al Jiluwi branch of Al Saud through maternal lineage or marriage.

Khalid bin Abdulaziz was named Crown Prince in 1965 to succeed King Faisal, after Khalid's older full-brother Prince Muhammad declined a place in the succession.

However, Crown Prince Khalid was not active in daily issues, but acted as a representative during King Faisal's absences in meetings or ceremonies.

King Khalid ( 1978 )

See also note 43 at p. 163, with references to Palanque ( 1933 ), Gaudemet ( 1972 ), Matthews ( 1975 ) and King ( 1961 )</ ref > Under Ambrose's influence, Theodosius issued the 391 " Theodosian decrees ," which with increasing intensity outlawed Pagan practises, and the Altar of Victory was removed by Gratian.

* Juan Carlos, King of Spain ( since 1975 )

Franco ruled until his death on 20 November 1975, when control was given to King Juan Carlos.

* 1975 – Jason King, English radio DJ

In November 1975, King Hassan mobilized 350, 000 unarmed Moroccan citizens in what came to be known as the " Green March " into Western Sahara.

After the exile of King Zahir Shah in 1973, President Daud Khan forged stronger ties with the Soviets by signing two highly controversial military aid packages for his nation in 1973 and 1975.

* Hamlet ( 1975 – 76 ) – Fortinbras, Player King

* 1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.

* 1975 – Green March begins: 300, 000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.

Following the adoption of the 1974 Instrument of Government on January 1, 1975, the Swedish Monarch ( King Carl XVI Gustaf since September 15, 1973 ) is no longer vested any executive authority at all, and is neither part of the executive branch nor of the legislature.

King Faisal ( 1964 – 1975 ) was a " modernist " who favored economic, technological and governmental progress but was also politically and religiously conservative.

Long term political and government appointments, such as those of King Abdullah, who was the Commander of the National Guard from 1963 until 2010, when he then appointed his son to replace him ), Crown Prince Sultan, was Minister of Defence & Aviation from 1962 to 2011, Prince Nayef was the Minister of Interior from 1975 until his death in 2012, Prince Saud has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 1975 and Prince Salman, was the Governor of the Riyadh Region from 1962 to 2011, resulting in the creation of " power fiefdoms " for senior princes.

Still renowned in 1975, Peckinpah was offered the opportunity to direct the eventual blockbusters King Kong ( 1976 ) and Superman ( 1978 ).

Each group of speakers broadcast sound and music from a particular era ( e. g. King Edward VIII's abdication speech ; Gough Whitlam's speech at Parliament House in 1975 ), the overall effect being that the soundscape would " flow " through history as walkers proceeded along the bridge.

Journey To the Centre of the Earth ( 1974 ) and The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table ( 1975 ) made use of symphony orchestras and choirs along with his band.

Novalis, noted for a heavy organ sound with comparisons to King Crimson and Pink Floyd, released Novalis ( 1975 ) and Summerabend ( 1976 ).

Richman continued recording on his own, eventually moving to California in 1975 to begin working with Beserkley Records whose boss Matthew King Kaufman had met Richman when he worked with A & M.

* Granatstein, J. L. Canada's War: The politics of the Mackenzie King government, 1939 – 1945 ( 1975 )

She was born in Birmingham and educated at the King Edward VI High School for Girls and the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, where she qualified in 1975.

He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ), The African Queen ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Misfits ( 1961 ), and The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ).

* The 1975 comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail contains a scene wherein King Arthur encounters uncooperative peasants who are part of an autonomous, anarcho-syndicalist commune.

Olof Palme carried out major reforms in the Swedish constitution such as orchestrating a switch from bicameralism to unicameralism in 1969 and in 1975 replacing the 166-year-old Instrument of Government ( at the time the oldest political constitution in the world after that of the United States ) with a new one officially establishing parliamentary democracy rather than de jure monarchic autocracy, abolishing the Privy Council of Sweden and stripping King Carl XVI Gustav of most rights held even by ceremonial monarchs in Denmark, Norway and the United Kingdom.