Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Betty Ford |
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Birthdate | April 08, 1918 |
Birth Place | Chicago, IL |
Age (in 2024) | 106 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Political Wife |
Betty Ford is best known as Political Wife who has born on April 08, 1918 in Chicago, IL. Currently, Betty Ford is 106 years, 6 months and 26 days old. Betty Ford will celebrate 107th birthday on Tuesday, 8th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Betty Ford upcoming birthday.
President Gerald Ford's wife who was the First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977. She was known for her candidness and for founding the Betty Ford Center for substance abuse and addiction.
She modeled, taught dance lessons, and worked with children in the aftermath the stock market crash of 1929.
She founded the Betty Ford Center in 1982 after she had a successful recovery from alcohol abuse in the late 70's.
She was married twice; her first marriage was to an insurance salesman and childhood friend, William C. Warren.
After her husband's defeat by Jimmy Carter in the 1976 Presidential election, she delivered the concession speech because Gerald Ford had lost his voice while campaigning.
Betty Ford is 106 years old today.
Betty Ford was born on April 08, 1918 in Chicago, IL.
Betty Ford zodiac sign is Aries.
Betty Ford was best known as Political Wife.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Betty Ford's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Betty Ford's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1968 | BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime. |
1970 | Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers accidentally strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed. |
1975 | Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager. |
1987 | Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racist remarks he had made while on Nightline. |
1992 | Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries. |
1993 | The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations. |
1993 | The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on mission STS-56. |
2004 | War in Darfur: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government, the Justice and Equality Movement, and the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army. |
2005 | A solar eclipse occurs, visible over areas of the Pacific Ocean and Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela. |
2006 | Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. |
2008 | The construction of the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain. |
2010 | U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START Treaty. |
2013 | The Islamic State of Iraq enters the Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger with the Al-Nusra Front under the name Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham. |
2014 | Windows XP reaches it's standard End Of Life and is no longer supported |
2020 | Bernie Sanders ends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the Democratic Party's nominee. |
1986 | The birth of FĂ©lix HernĂĄndez, Venezuelan-American baseball player |
1987 | The birth of Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer |
1987 | The birth of Jeremy Hellickson, American baseball player |
1987 | The birth of Elton John, Trinidadian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Sam Rapira, New Zealand rugby league player |
1988 | The birth of Jenni Asserholt, Swedish ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer (d. 2017) |
1993 | The birth of Viktor Arvidsson, Swedish ice hockey player |
1994 | The birth of Josh Chudleigh, Australian rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Cedi Osman, Turkish professional basketball player |
1996 | The birth of Anna Korakaki, Greek Olympic medalist in shooting |
1997 | The birth of Kim Woo-jin, South Korean singer |
1997 | The birth of Saygrace, Australian singer and songwriter |
1997 | The birth of Arno Verschueren, Belgian professional football player |
2002 | The birth of Skai Jackson, American actress |
2013 | The death of Sara Montiel, Spanish-Mexican actress and singer (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of José Luis Sampedro, Spanish economist and author (b. 1917) |
2013 | The death of Margaret Thatcher, English politician, first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Emmanuel III Delly, Iraqi patriarch (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Karlheinz Deschner, German author and activist (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Ivan Mercep, New Zealand architect, designed the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Jayakanthan, Indian journalist and author (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Rayson Huang, Hong Kong chemist and academic (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Sergei Lashchenko, Ukrainian kick-boxer (b. 1987) |
2015 | The death of David Laventhol, American journalist and publisher (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (b. 1936) |
2019 | The death of Josine Ianco-Starrels, Romanian-born American art curator (b. 1926) |
2020 | The death of Rick May, American-Canadian voice actor (b. 1940) |
2020 | The death of Abdul Momin Imambari, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (b. 1930) |
2022 | The death of Mimi Reinhardt, Austrian Jewish secretary (b. 1915) |
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Website | Betty Ford's Webiste |
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