* 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 ( 1975 – 1982 ) left government largely to his Crown Prince, Fahd, who succeeded him as King ( 1982 – 2005 ).

( 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 )

This prospect did not please Mrs. King any more than did the possibility that her daughter might marry a Bohemian, but she used it to suggest to Thompson that, `` It is not in her nature to love you ''.

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''.

The oldest text in Phoenician script is an inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

The museum building is shaped like a longbow similar to those used at the battle by archers under King Henry.

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

* 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.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

* 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.

* 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.

* Throughout Robertson Davies's The Manticore a comparison is repeatedly made between the protagonist's problematic relations with his father and those of between the Biblical Absalom and King David.

It is a mournful lament from King David's perspective.

* 1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth.

* 1057 – King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.

In the Prose Edda, Gylfi, King of Sweden before the arrival of the Æsir under Odin, travels to Asgard, questions the three officials shown in the illumination concerning the Æsir, and is beguiled.

* 1977 – Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa.

In the 1960 film David and Goliath, Abner ( Massimo Serato ) tries to murder David ( Ivica Pajer ) when he returns in triumph after killing Goliath ; however, Abner is slain by King Saul ( Orson Welles ).

Aeneas is a main character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a re-telling of the last six books of the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus of Latium.