Updated at December 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Alden Partridge |
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Birthdate | February 12, 1785 |
Birth Place | Norwich, VT |
Age (in 2024) | 239 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Alden Partridge was born on February 12, 1785 in Norwich, VT. Currently, Alden Partridge is 239 years, 10 months and 11 days old. Alden Partridge will celebrate 240th birthday on Wednesday, 12th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Alden Partridge upcoming birthday.
Supporter of the concept of the citizen soldier, he founded the first military college in America.
He proposed a school curriculum based on science and mathematics, but his ideas met widespread resistance from administrators.
His American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy later became Norwich University, the country's oldest private military school.
His adopted son George Colvocoresses led an exploration expedition to the Antarctic, and later commanded a ship during the Civil War.
He wanted to create a professional officer class, the opposite of previous military leaders like George Washington, who often came from successful families.
Alden Partridge is 239 years old today.
Alden Partridge was born on February 12, 1785 in Norwich, VT.
Alden Partridge zodiac sign is Aquarius.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Alden Partridge's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1974 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union. |
1983 | One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law. |
1988 | Cold War: The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: The U.S. missile cruiser USS Yorktown (CG-48) is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy in the Soviet territorial waters, while Yorktown claims innocent passage. |
1990 | Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia. |
1992 | The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect. |
1993 | Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him. |
1994 | Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream. |
1999 | United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial. |
2001 | NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. |
2002 | The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion. |
2002 | An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119. |
2004 | The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom. |
2009 | Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground. |
2016 | Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054. |
2019 | The country known as the Republic of Macedonia renames itself the Republic of North Macedonia in accordance with the Prespa agreement, settling a long-standing naming dispute with Greece. |
1982 | The birth of Anthony Tuitavake, New Zealand rugby player |
1983 | The birth of Carlton Brewster, American football player and coach |
1984 | The birth of Brad Keselowski, American race car driver |
1984 | The birth of Andrei Sidorenkov, Estonian footballer |
1984 | The birth of Peter Vanderkaay, American swimmer |
1987 | The birth of Jérémy Chardy, French tennis player |
1988 | The birth of DeMarco Murray, American football player |
1988 | The birth of Nicolás Otamendi, Argentine footballer |
1988 | The birth of Mike Posner, American singer-songwriter and producer |
1990 | The birth of Robert Griffin III, American football player |
1991 | The birth of Patrick Herrmann, German footballer |
1992 | The birth of Magda Linette, Polish tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Arman Hall, American sprinter |
1999 | The birth of Maggie Coles-Lyster, Canadian cyclist |
2000 | The birth of Kim Ji-min, South Korean actress |
2015 | The death of Gary Owens, American radio host and voice actor (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Steve Strange, Welsh singer (b. 1959) |
2016 | The death of Dominique D'Onofrio, Italian-Belgian footballer and coach (b. 1953) |
2016 | The death of Yannis Kalaitzis, Greek cartoonist (b. 1945) |
2016 | The death of Yan Su, Chinese general and composer (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Al Jarreau, American singer (b. 1940) |
2017 | The death of Anna Marguerite McCann, first female American underwater archaeologist (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Ren Xinmin, Chinese rocket scientist (b. 1915) |
2018 | The death of Bill Crider, American author (b. 1941) |
2019 | The death of Gordon Banks, English footballer (b. 1937) |
2019 | The death of Lyndon LaRouche, American political activist (b. 1922) |
2019 | The death of Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican professional wrestler and commentator (b. 1942) |
2020 | The death of Christie Blatchford, Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (b. 1951) |
2020 | The death of Geert Hofstede, Dutch social psychologist (b. 1928) |
2022 | The death of Ivan Reitman, Slovak-Canadian actor, director, and producer (b. 1946) |
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