Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Bob Grant |
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Birthdate | March 14, 1929 |
Birth Place | Illinois |
Age (in 2024) | 95 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Radio Host |
Bob Grant is best known as Radio Host who has born on March 14, 1929 in Illinois. Currently, Bob Grant is 95 years, 7 months and 19 days old. Bob Grant will celebrate 96th birthday on Friday, 14th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Bob Grant upcoming birthday.
Radio show host who is considered one of the forefathers of the modern conservative talk radio format. Despite his success, he was controversial due to positions that were widely viewed as being racist or homophobic.
He earned a Journalism degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He later served in the Naval Reserve during the Korean War.
Radio & Records had planned on giving him a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 but revoked it due to the host's controversial stances. The move was seen as unnecessary censorship by several prominent broadcasters, including Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh.
He was survived by two sons and two daughters.
Fellow conservative radio pundit Sean Hannity borrowed Grant's catchphrase "straight ahead" for his own radio show.
Bob Grant is 95 years old today.
Bob Grant was born on March 14, 1929 in Illinois.
Bob Grant zodiac sign is Pisces.
Bob Grant was best known as Radio Host.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Bob Grant's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1961 | A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons. |
1964 | Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy. |
1967 | The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. |
1972 | Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab Emirates while on approach to Dubai International Airport, killing 112 people. |
1978 | The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon. |
1979 | Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people. |
1980 | LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team. |
1982 | The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London. |
1988 | In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands. |
1995 | Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle. |
2006 | The 2006 Chadian coup d'Ă©tat attempt ends in failure. |
2007 | The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in the deaths of at least 14 people. |
2008 | A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet. |
2017 | A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance. |
2019 | Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths. |
1988 | The birth of Rico Freimuth, German decathlete |
1989 | The birth of Kevin Lacroix, Canadian race car driver |
1990 | The birth of Joe Allen, Welsh footballer |
1990 | The birth of TamĂĄs KĂĄdĂĄr, Hungarian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Haru Kuroki, Japanese actress |
1990 | The birth of Kolbeinn SigĂŸĂłrsson, Icelandic footballer |
1991 | The birth of Emir BekriÄ, Serbian hurdler |
1991 | The birth of Låszló SzƱcs, Hungarian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Steven Zellner, German footballer |
1993 | The birth of Philipp Ziereis, German footballer |
1994 | The birth of Ansel Elgort, American actor and DJ |
1996 | The birth of Batuhan AltıntaĆ, Turkish footballer |
1997 | The birth of Simone Biles, American gymnast |
2000 | The birth of Paige Rini, Canadian water skier |
2008 | The birth of Abby Ryder Fortson, American actress |
2013 | The death of Aramais Sahakyan, Armenian poet and author (b. 1936) |
2013 | The death of Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician, Cambodian Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Tony Benn, English politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Meir Har-Zion, Israeli commander (b. 1934) |
2016 | The death of John W. Cahn, German-American metallurgist and academic (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (b. 1934) |
2016 | The death of Suranimala Rajapaksha, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1949) |
2018 | The death of Jim Bowen, English stand-up comedian and TV personality (b. 1937) |
2018 | The death of Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician and human rights activist (b. 1979) |
2018 | The death of Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (b. 1942) |
2018 | The death of Liam O'Flynn, Irish uileann piper (b. 1945) |
2019 | The death of Jake Phelps, American skateboarder and Thrasher editor-in-chief (b. 1962) |
2019 | The death of Charlie Whiting, British motorsport director (b. 1952) |
2019 | The death of Haig Young, Canadian politician (b. 1928) |
2022 | The death of Scott Hall, Professional wrestler (b. 1958) |
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Wikipedia | Bob Grant on Wikipedia |
Website | Bob Grant's Webiste |
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