While he has won screen acclaim, no-one who saw his ravaged King Lear at Stratford, while still in his early forties, will forget his superb double act with a red-nosed Antony Sher as the Fool sitting on his master's knee like a ventriloquist's doll.

* Antony Sher ( Sher's book, The Year of the King, is a diary about his preparation for the role, which he played on crutches, at Stratford in 1985.

In November 2004, the government rejected the Maoists ' request to negotiate directly with the King Gyanendra rather than via the Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba ; their request for discussions to be mediated by a third party, such as the United Nations was dismissed.

* 22 May: King Gyanendra, acting on the advice of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, dissolves Parliament and orders new elections.

When King Gyanendra in 2003 dissolved parliament and sacked Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, CPN ( UML ) took a leading part in the formation of the 5-parties protest movement.

Sher Shah Suri ( 1486 – May 22, 1545 ) (-Farīd Xān Šer Šāh Sūrī, ), birth name Farid Khan, also known as Sher Khan ( The Lion King ), was the founder of the Muslim Sur Empire in the Indian subcontinent, with its capital at Delhi.

* Sher Shah Suri – The Lion King

* Khawas Khan Marwat, a famous general during the Afghan King Sher Shah Suri's reign

* 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.

While in India, Hasan Ali Shah continued his close relationship with the British, and was even visited by the Prince of Wales when the future King Edward VII was on a state visit to India.

Isaiah is mentioned as a prophet in Ibn kathir's Stories of the Prophets and the modern writers Muhammad Asad and Abdullah Yusuf Ali accepted Isaiah as a true Hebrew prophet, who preached to the Israelites following the death of King David.

Roerik of Dorestad was born about 810 / 820 to Ali Anulo, 9th King of Haithabu.

* 1139: On July 26, the Portuguese defeat the Almoravids led by Ali ibn Yusuf in the Battle of Ourique ; Prince Afonso Henriques is acclaimed King of Portugal by his soldiers.

* May 20 – July 9 – Zarafa, a giraffe presented by the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, Mehmet Ali Pasha, to King Charles X of France, the first to be seen in Europe for over three centuries, walks from Marseilles to Paris.

After the First World War, the Hashemite Sayyid Hussein bin Ali was proclaimed King of an independent Hejaz, but soon after, in 1924, he was defeated by Ibn Saud, who integrated Medina and the whole of the Hejaz into the modern kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The day after the truce agreement Shaykh Muhamad ' Ali al-Ja ' bari, Mayor of Hebron and supporter of King Abdullah I of Jordan attended the Jericho Conference presided over a meeting hoping to pass a resolution calling for the unification of the Palestinian West Bank and Jordan, only to find many other notables reluctant to cede their claim to Palestine.

January 18: Faisal-Weizmann Agreement between Emir Faisal ( son of the King of Hejaz, Sharif of Mecca Sayyid Hussein bin Ali ), and Chaim Weizmann ( later President of the World Zionist Organization ).

He used his education and business savvy to become a boxing promoter, notably for Muhammad Ali, and during the 1980s became a driving force behind the sport, rivaling Don King.

He portrayed Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 2001 film Ali.

King Ali had a daughter before he married Grimhild, named Signy.

José Sulaimán said the WBC did so because Spinks was signed for a rematch with Ali instead of fighting a Don King fighter, Ken Norton.

King has promoted some of the most prominent names in boxing, including Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Julio César Chávez, Andrew Golota, Félix Trinidad, Roy Jones, Jr. Marco Antonio Barrera, Nikolai Valuev and Joey Hernandez.

Burke was known as " King Solomon ," the " King of Rock ' n ' Soul ," and as the " Bishop of Soul ," and described as " the Muhammad Ali of soul ," and as " the most unfairly overlooked singer of soul's golden age.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

The HBO made for TV movie entitled Don King: Only in America, depicts the build up to the fight and the maneuvers that King had to perform to set it up as well as numerous scenes which show the way Ali gained the favor of the people of Zaire.

Ali & Jack was produced by King World ( now CBS Television Distribution ), and the syndicator tried to copy Regis and Kellys plan of airing on almost all of WABC's fellow ABC owned and operated stations, and strong local stations in other markets.

Viacom ( King World's parent at the time ) cleared Ali & Jack on their CBS and UPN O & O's, and in New York took Regis and Kelly head-on at 9 AM on WCBS.

Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi, ( Fayṣal ibn Ḥusayn ; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933 ) was for a short time King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and was King of the Kingdom of Iraq ( today Iraq ) from 23 August 1921 to 1933.

* Ghazi, King of Iraq born 1912 died 4 April 1939, married Princess Aliya bint Ali daughter of HM King Ali of Hejaz.

In 1973, Mohammed Daoud Khan was brought to power in a coup d ' état against the Afghan King and the Republic of Afghanistan was established.

Abdur Rahman could only succeed in subjugating Hazaras and conquering their land when he effectively utilized internal differences within the Hazara community, co-opting sold-out Hazara chiefs into his bureaucratic sales of the enslaved Hazara men, women and children in 1897, the Hazaras remained de facto slaves until King Amanullah Khan declared Afghanistan's independence in 1919.

King Dost Mohammad Khan with one of his sons.

King Mohammad Yaqub Khan with Britain's Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari | Sir Pierre Cavagnari on May 26, 1879, when the Treaty of Gandamak was signed.

King Habibullah Khan in 1907

Amanullah Khan | King Amanullah, third son of Habibullah Khan.

In 1927 and 1928, King Amanullah Khan and his wife Soraya Tarzi visited Europe.

On 14 January 1929, Amanullah abdicated in favor of his brother, King Inayatullah Khan.

However, his rule was short lived and, on 17 October 1929, Habibullah Kalakani was overthrown and replaced by King Nadir Khan.

List of monarchs of Afghanistan | King Mohammad Yaqub Khan | Yaqub Khan with Britain's Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari on May 26, 1879, when the Treaty of Gandamak was signed.

King Amanullah Khan

King Amanullah Khan moved to end his country's traditional isolation in the years following the Third Anglo-Afghan war.

He was soon declared King Nadir Khan.

* 1973 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.

Mausoleum of King Amanullah Khan

Named after King Amanullah Khan, it is said to be the first, the biggest and the most modern city in the history of Afghanistan.

** Mausoleum of King Amanullah Khan

In the early 20th century King Amanullah Khan rose to power.

King Nader Khan was assassinated in 1933 and the throne was left to his 19-year-old son, Zahir Shah, who became the long lasting King of Afghanistan.

* Habibia High School, a British-Afghan school founded in 1903 by King Habibullah Khan.

King Amanullah Khan institutionalized the Jirga.