Born December 17, 1874 in Berlin, Ontario
[Died] July 22, 1950. Kingsmere, Quebec. Canadian politician. Grandson of WL Mackenzie. After graduating from the University of Toronto, he studied in the United States and entered politics in 1900. As Undersecretary of Labour, he dealt with the anti-Japanese immigration riots in Vancouver in 1907. In 1909, he became Minister of Labour in the Liberal cabinet under W. Laurier. After losing the general election in 2011, he served for a time as an advisor on labour issues to the Rockefeller Foundation, but in 1919 he succeeded Laurier as leader of the Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister from 1921 to 1926, from 1926 to 1930, and from 1935 to 1948. Although he was of British Canadian descent, he had good French-Canadian colleagues such as E. Lapointe and L. St. Laurent, and secured the support of the Quebec Liberal Party, maintaining his position as Prime Minister for the longest period in Canadian history. In 1945, he was head of the Canadian delegation to the founding conference of the United Nations, and in 1948, he was Canada's Chief Representative to the United Nations. He is also known for remaining single his whole life. His greatest achievement was ensuring Canada's unity during World War II and further promoting its foreign autonomy. It is noteworthy that Canada cooperated in the war under its own responsibility and that its participation in the war did not become a source of conflict between British and French Canadians. On the other hand, relations between Canada, Britain, and the United States were stronger than ever before, and the Canadian economy's dependence on the United States, especially after the war, became evident towards the end of King's time. He worked hard to establish old-age pensions and realise social welfare legislation. His main works are "Industry and Humanity" (1918) and "Canada and the Fight for Freedom" (44). King
King, Billie Jean Born November 22, 1943, Long Beach, California. American tennis player. She contributed greatly to improving the status of women's professional tennis. In 1961, she and Karen Hanze competed in the women's doubles at Wimbledon, becoming the youngest pair to ever win the championship. She won 20 titles at Wimbledon (6 women's singles, 10 women's doubles, 4 mixed doubles), the most ever, but was tied by Martina Navratilova in 2003. She won the women's singles at the 1968 Australian Championships (Australian Open) and the 1972 French Open. She was also one of the best doubles players, winning 27 major titles. In 1967, she achieved the feat of winning all three events at Wimbledon and the U.S. Championships (U.S. Open Tennis Championships): singles, doubles, and mixed doubles. She turned professional in 1968. She was one of the founders of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and served as its first president (1974). She retired from active competition in 1984 and served as a coach for the Fed Cup and Olympic Games from the mid-1990s. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987 and the U.S. Women's Tennis Hall of Fame in 1990. King
King, B.B. Born September 16, 1925, near Itta Bena, Mississippi
[Died] May 14, 2015. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Born Riley B. King. Deeply rooted in the Mississippi Delta blues tradition, King's music, influenced by jazz and rhythm and blues, has been acclaimed worldwide and inspired popular musicians in various genres. In his early 20s, he moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he played nightclubs and got a job as a disc jockey at a radio station, earning him the nickname "BB" (Blues Boy). His first hit was Three O'Clock Blues in 1951. His major albums include The Thrill Is Gone (1969), which was his first Grammy Award-winning album, and Deuces Wild (1997), which featured Van Morrison, Bonnie Raitt, and Eric Clapton. He has won 15 Grammy Awards in total. In 1980, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. He received the National Medal of Arts in 1990 and the Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. King
King, Charles A British economic commentator and merchant in the early 18th century. He was a pioneer and leading advocate of protectionist mercantilism in Britain. The proposed Treaty of Commerce, which was an addendum to the Treaty of Utrecht, concluded by the Tory government in 1713, allowed the resumption of free trade with France, but King led the Whig newspaper "The British Merchant" and succeeded in preventing the ratification of the Treaty of Commerce from a protectionist perspective, opposing the trade liberalization advocated by D. Defoe in the Tory newspaper "Mercator." His theory emphasized the domestic market as distinct from the foreign market, and advocated the need for protective tariffs to compete with underdeveloped countries with low wages. Later, King summarized the arguments made in the newspaper in the trade debate against France and published them in 1721 as The British Merchant, or Commerce Preserved (3 volumes). This is considered one of the representative documents of British mercantilism. King
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia
Died: April 4, 1968. Memphis, Tennessee. American black pastor and anti-racism activist. Nobel Peace Prize winner (1964). He received his bachelor's degree from Morehouse College in 1948, Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951, and doctorate from Boston University in 1955. He was ordained as a pastor in Montgomery, Alabama in 1954. In 1956, he started a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest against racial discrimination on buses, and succeeded in this movement for over a year with the unity and cooperation of black residents. He later organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). In 1963, he led the March on Washington for civil rights for blacks. In 1967, he expanded his activities to the anti-Vietnam War movement. He remained nonviolent in all his movements until his assassination in 1968. His books include Why We Can't Wait (1964) and others. King
King, Gregory Born: 15 December 1648, Lichfield, Staffordshire
[died] August 29, 1712, London. British statistician and genealogical herald. Born the son of a land surveyor, he worked as a printer and a surveyor's assistant before acquiring skills in heraldic drawing and land surveying. In 1667 he was appointed College of Arms, and later Officer of Arms at Lancaster. He had a deep knowledge of heraldry, surveying, and printing, but he was also interested in the quantitative observation of social phenomena, and his book Natural and Political Observations and Conclusions upon the State and Condition of England (1696) gained fame as the first scientific demographic survey. King
King, Stephen Edwin Born: September 21, 1947, Portland, Maine. American novelist. Since his first full-length novel, Carrie (1974), he has consistently published best-selling novels with various horror themes, including Salem's Lot (75), The Shining (77), The Dead Zone (79), It (86), and Misery (87). By 1980, his novels had sold a total of 22 million copies, and many of his works have been made into films. He has also written many novels under the pen name Richard Bachman. King
King, Phillip Born May 1, 1934 in Kheredine, Tunis. British sculptor born in Tunisia. Moved to England in 1945. After majoring in linguistics at Cambridge University, he studied sculpture under A. Caro at St. Martin's School of Art for one year. Like Caro, he became an assistant to H. Moore for two years from 1959. In his first solo exhibition, he exhibited works that combined ready-made objects. He then moved on to painted sculptures, and together with Caro, he became a representative artist in the British sculpture world in the 1960s. He also produced painted sculptures using plastic. In the 1970s, he began to use metal as a material to create dynamic, compositional works with intertwining curved surfaces. King
King, Rufus Born March 24, 1755 in Scarborough, Massachusetts
[Died] April 29, 1827. Long Island. American politician and diplomat. Representative to the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1787, attended the Constitutional Convention in 1787, served as a U.S. Senator from New York from 1789 to 1896, and was a leader of the Federalists. In 1816, he ran for president against John Monroe, but was defeated, becoming the last Federalist candidate. He served twice as Japanese envoy to Great Britain (1796-1803, 1825-1826). King
King, Ernest Joseph Born: November 22, 1878 in Loplein
[Died] June 25, 1956. Born in Portsmouth. American naval officer. Graduated from the Naval Academy in 1901. Served as a midshipman in the Spanish-American War, and served on the staff of the Atlantic Fleet during World War I. During World War II, he served as Commander in Chief of the Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations (1942-45). In 1944, he was promoted to Fleet Admiral. King
King, William Rufus de Vane Born April 7, 1786 in Samson, North Carolina
[Died] April 18, 1853, Cahaba, Alabama. American politician and diplomat. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1810. Diplomatic mission to the Kingdom of Naples and the Russian Empire in 1816. Democratic U.S. Senator from 1819 to 1844 and from 1848 to 1853. Vice President in 1853. King
King, Henry [Born] 1592
[Died] 1669
English poet. Bishop of Chichester. Friend of Donne, I. Walton, and B. Johnson. His Poems (1657) include the elegy Exequy, written in the style of metaphysical poetry. King
King, John Alsop Born: January 3, 1788 in New York
[Died] July 7, 1867.
American politician. Son of the Revolutionary War political leader R. King, he served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1849 to 1851, and as Governor of New York from 1857 to 1859. King
King, Francis Henry [Born] 1923
British novelist. His works include The Dividing Stream (1951), which won the Maugham Prize. He lived in Japan from 1959 to 1963 as the Kyoto representative of the British Council. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
