Kappa Kappa Psi is a coeducational fraternity for college and university band members. The fraternity was founded on November 27, 1919, at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College in Stillwater, Oklahoma, by ten band members led by William A. Scroggs and Professor Bohumil Makovsky, and was incorporated on March 5, 1920. Since its founding, Kappa Kappa Psi has established several programs for the betterment of college bands and band music, including the National Intercollegiate Band, a band that has performed at every national convention of the fraternity since 1947; and the Commissioning Program, which has contributed dozens of works to the band repertoire as a national project and hundreds more from local chapter commissions. The fraternity holds a close relationship with its sister sorority, Tau Beta Sigma. More than 66,000 men and women have been initiated into Kappa Kappa Psi since 1919, including United States President Bill Clinton, John Philip Sousa, Neil Armstrong, and Dizzy Gillespie.
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511:
Upon the death of Clovis, King of the Franks, Gaul was divided among his four sons: Theuderic, Chlodomer, Childebert, and Chlothar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_I
1727:
The foundation stone of Jerusalem's Church in Berlin was laid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem%27s_Church
1940:
Second World War: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engaged the Regia Marina near Sicily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Spartivento
1978:
San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by supervisor Dan White. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscone%E2%80%93Milk_assassinations
2009:
A bomb exploded under a high-speed train travelling between Moscow and Saint Petersburg derailing it, killing 28 passengers and injuring 95 more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Nevsky_Express_bombing
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uberly: (informal) Significantly; very, very much; extremely. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uberly
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The brain is waking and with it the mind is returning. It is as if the Milky Way entered upon some cosmic dance. Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of subpatterns. Now as the waking body rouses, subpatterns of this great harmony of activity stretch down into the unlit tracks of the stalk-piece of the scheme. Strings of flashing and travelling sparks engage the lengths of it. This means that the body is up and rises to meet its waking day. --Charles Scott Sherrington https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Scott_Sherrington