Updated at December 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Alexander Parkes |
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Birthdate | December 29, 1813 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 210 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Chemist |
Alexander Parkes is best known as Chemist who has born on December 29, 1813 in England. Currently, Alexander Parkes is 210 years, 11 months and 25 days old. Alexander Parkes will celebrate 211th birthday on Sunday, 29th of December 2024. Below the countdown to Alexander Parkes upcoming birthday.
English chemist who created the world's first plastic, which he called Parkesine. By the end of his career he held at least 66 patents on processes and products related to plastic.
He served as an apprentice to brass founders.
He introduced his plastic material at an international exhibition and was able to predict many uses for the new material that are in line with how we use plastic today.
He was the middle child of eight; his father made brass locks.
He came up with a way to vulcanize and recycle rubber, which was very useful to tire maker Charles Goodyear.
Alexander Parkes is 210 years old today.
Alexander Parkes was born on December 29, 1813 in England.
Alexander Parkes zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Alexander Parkes was best known as Chemist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Alexander Parkes's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Alexander Parkes's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1972 | Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in the Florida Everglades on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 people on board. |
1975 | A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring more than 75. |
1989 | Czech writer, philosopher and dissident VĂĄclav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia. |
1989 | The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble. |
1992 | Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached. |
1994 | Turkish Airlines Flight 278 (a Boeing 737-400) crashes on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board. |
1996 | Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war. |
1998 | Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the Cambodian genocide that claimed over one million lives. |
2003 | The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. |
2006 | The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt. |
2012 | A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured. |
2013 | A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others. |
2013 | Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher suffers a massive head injury while skiing in the French Alps. |
2020 | A large explosion at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden kills at least 22 people and wounds 50. |
2020 | A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits near the town of Petrinja in Sisak-Moslavina County, Croatia, killing 7 people. |
1984 | The birth of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, American playwright |
1985 | The birth of Alexa Ray Joel, American singer-songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Eric Berry, American football player |
1988 | The birth of Christen Press, American footballer |
1988 | The birth of Ăgnes SzĂĄvay, Hungarian tennis player |
1989 | The birth of Jane Levy, American actress |
1989 | The birth of Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Steven Caulker, English footballer |
1993 | The birth of Gabby May, Canadian artistic gymnast |
1995 | The birth of Myles Garrett, American football player |
1995 | The birth of Ross Lynch, American singer and actor |
1996 | The birth of Sana Minatozaki, Japanese singer |
1996 | The birth of Dylan Minnette, American actor, musician and singer |
1998 | The birth of Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, American actor |
2000 | The birth of Julio RodrĂguez, Dominican baseball player |
2015 | The death of Pavel SrnĂÄek, Czech footballer and coach (b. 1968) |
2016 | The death of Keion Carpenter, American football defensive back (b. 1977) |
2016 | The death of LaVell Edwards, American football head coach (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Peggy Cummins, Irish actress (b. 1925) |
2017 | The death of John C. Portman Jr., American neofuturistic architect and real estate developer (b. 1924) |
2018 | The death of Brian Garfield, American novelist, historian and screenwriter (b. 1939) |
2018 | The death of Rosenda Monteros, Mexican actress (b. 1935) |
2019 | The death of Alasdair Gray, Scottish writer and artist (b. 1934) |
2019 | The death of Neil Innes, English writer, comedian and musician (b. 1944) |
2020 | The death of Pierre Cardin, Italian-French fashion designer (b. 1922) |
2020 | The death of Joe Louis Clark, American educator (b. 1937) |
2021 | The death of Peter Klatzow, South African composer (b. 1945) |
2022 | The death of Pelé, Brazilian footballer (b. 1940) |
2022 | The death of Edgar Savisaar, Estonian politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior (b. 1950) |
2022 | The death of Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer (b. 1941) |
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