* 1970 – Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game designer, created Super Smash Bros and Kirby

* 1917 – Jack Kirby, American writer and illustrator ( d. 1994 )

* 1973 – Kirby Morrow, Canadian actor

* 1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen

* 1862 – American Civil War – Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.

He was the side's most successful bowler with analyses of 22. 7 – 2 – 92 – 4 but fell for another 0 caught of leg-spinner Keith Kirby.

* 1973 – Will Kirby, American actor

* 1850 – William Kirby, English entomologist ( b. 1759 )

* 1964 – Wayne Kirby, American baseball player

Jack Kirby ( August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994 ), born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.

* 1911 – Kirby Grant, American actor ( d. 1985 )

* 1943 – Douglas Kirby, American teenage behavior researcher

* 1957 – Doug Kirby, American author and travel guide

* Kirby, Geoff., " Forum: Now you see it ... Now you don't – A pathological tendency among astronomers ", New Scientist 24 February 1990

Ronald William " Josh " Kirby ( 27 November 1928 – 23 October 2001 ) was an English commercial artist born in Waterloo, on the outskirts of Liverpool, Merseyside.

* 1759 – William Kirby, English entomologist ( d. 1850 )

* August 28 – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist ( d. 1994 )

* April 28 – Bruno Kirby, American actor ( d. 2006 )

* June 2 – American Civil War: Confederate forces west of the Mississippi under General Edmund Kirby Smith surrender at Galveston, Texas, becoming the last to do so.

* March 14 – Kirby Puckett, American baseball player ( d. 2006 )

* May – The Hulk debuts with The Incredible Hulk # 1 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

Laurie Kirby and Jeff Paris gave an interpretation of the Goodstein's theorem as a hydra game: the " Hydra " is a rooted tree, and a move consists of cutting off one of its " heads " ( a branch of the tree ), to which the hydra responds by growing a finite number of new heads according to certain rules.

Written by longtime Kirby understudy Mark Evanier, with co-author and penciller Paris Cullins, this would be the most lengthy New Gods run yet.

Kirby, an English translator of the Kalevala, notes that in Runo 49, Väinämöinen uses rhabdomancy, or divination by rods, to learn where the sun and moon are hidden, but this interpretation is rejected by Aili Kolehmainen Johnson ( 1950 ).

A famous theorem of implies that the homeomorphism type of the manifold only depends on this intersection form, and on a Z / 2Z invariant called the Kirby – Siebenmann invariant, and moreover that every combination of unimodular form and Kirby – Siebenmann invariant can arise, except that if the form is even then the Kirby – Siebenmann invariant must be the signature / 8 ( mod 2 ).

In the Super Smash Bros. series, when Kirby copies a foe's ability, Kirby says the name of some attacks, such as Captain Falcon's " Falcon Punch ", Ness ' PK Flash, and Lucas ' PK Freeze.

The biography of Kirby in Super Smash Bros. Brawl says Kirby is a citizen of Dream Land.

His appreciation of the artwork of Jack Kirby, he says, only materialised much later " through the eyes of a seasoned professional.

" Kirby places Petersen's green beret on him and says, " You let me worry about that, Green Beret.

" UGO. com listed Kirby on their list of " The Cutest Video Game Characters " stating " It ’ s easy to get on board with someone who will eat anything.

Normally, for comfort and for practicality, a full face mask such as those manufactured by Kirby Morgan will be used to allow torches and video cameras to be mounted onto the mask.

During training, divers will be taught how to use common types of diving equipment ( nearly every school trains divers to use the Kirby Morgan equipment ) and how to carry out underwater construction techniques such as welding and cutting.

Says Kirby unto Wade, we will run.

Kirby travels alone, but if his cell phone is working, he can call his friends and they will help him.

There are several new powers in The Amazing Mirror, such as Cupid ( called Angel in the Japanese version ), which allows Kirby to fly around with wings and a halo and fire arrows ; Missile, which turns Kirby into a missile that can be guided in any direction and will explode on contact with a wall or an enemy or when the B button is hit ; and Smash, which gives Kirby the abilities he had in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

On August 1, 2011, Nintendo announced that Kirby & the Amazing Mirror will be available to limited Nintendo 3DS owners via Virtual Console, along with nine other Game Boy Advance games that were announced and was released on December 16, 2011 ( GMT ), to join the upcoming Nintendo 3DS price-cut and the Ambassador program starting August 11, 2011.

After defeating Dedede, Kirby is brought back to the level selection screen and can play through the levels again at will.

If Kirby falls through the bottom of the pinball table, he will land on a springboard.

If the player presses the ' A ' button at just the right moment, the springboard will launch Kirby back up and out of the hole at varying levels of power, without losing a life — it is possible to reach any of the three floors, depending on the timing of the jump.

Citi and Barclaycard share the same site at Pride Park but it was announced on 21 June 2011 that Barclaycard would not require to continue operations in Derby and will move ops to their Kirby and Northampton sites, leaving 659 people redundant.

However, if Kirby takes too much damage, he will lose a life.

Each area has a time limit, which will cost Kirby a life if it hits zero.

The game registers a " pop " action when the player quickly jerks the Game Boy in the vertical direction ; doing so will jerk Kirby into the air.

Through Pug, she meets a widowed government engineer named Palmer Kirby, who later will be involved in the first phase of the Manhattan Project.

These abilities include Kirby turning into a tornado ( that can be steered ), a sparkly ball ( that can destroy certain obstacles ), and a UFO ( which allows Kirby to float and move at will for a short time ).

In the single-player mode, Kirby loses one life when all his health points are gone or fall off the stage ; when Kirby runs out of lives, the game will end.

If Kirby touches an enemy or is hit by an enemy's attack, Kirby will lose one bar of health ( out of six total health points ).

Flight involves inhaling air ( Up button ), followed with the press of the jump button which will make Kirby fly.