Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Bruce Catton |
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Birthdate | October 09, 1899 |
Birth Place | Petoskey, MI |
Age (in 2024) | 125 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Historian |
Bruce Catton is best known as Historian who has born on October 09, 1899 in Petoskey, MI. Currently, Bruce Catton is 125 years, 0 months and 26 days old. Bruce Catton will celebrate 126th birthday on Thursday, 9th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Bruce Catton upcoming birthday.
Award-winning American historian, author, and journalist who is best known for his three Civil War-themed trilogies. His writing features colorful characters and historical vignettes.
He became a reporter and editor for The Cleveland News, the Boston American, and The Plain Dealer after serving in the US Navy during World War I. He published his first historical work, The War Lords of Washington, in 1948.
His book, A Stillness at Appomattox, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954.
He married Hazel H. Cherry on August 16, 1925. Their son, William Bruce, was born the following year.
He wrote a trilogy on Ulysses Grant.
Bruce Catton is 125 years old today.
Bruce Catton was born on October 09, 1899 in Petoskey, MI.
Bruce Catton zodiac sign is Libra.
Bruce Catton was best known as Historian.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Bruce Catton's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1970 | The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia. |
1980 | Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City. |
1981 | President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France. |
1983 | South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others. |
1984 | The popular children's television show Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, based on The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, premieres on ITV. |
1986 | The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre. |
1986 | Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the "fourth" US television network. |
1992 | The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New York |
1995 | An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona. |
2006 | North Korea conducts its first nuclear test. |
2007 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2007-2008 financial crises. |
2009 | First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program. |
2012 | Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai. |
2016 | The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. |
2019 | Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria. |
1983 | The birth of Andreas Zuber, Austrian race car driver |
1985 | The birth of David Plummer, American swimmer |
1986 | The birth of Derek Holland, American baseball player |
1986 | The birth of Laure Manaudou, French swimmer |
1986 | The birth of Stephane Zubar, French footballer |
1988 | The birth of David Tyrrell, Australian rugby league player |
1989 | The birth of Russell Packer, New Zealand rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Kevin Kampl, German-Slovene footballer |
1992 | The birth of Sam Mewis, American soccer player |
1993 | The birth of Ani Amiraghyan, Armenian tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Lauren Davis, American tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Jayden Hodges, Australian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Wesley So, Filipino-American chess grandmaster |
1996 | The birth of Bella Hadid, American model |
2001 | The birth of Kyla Leibel, Canadian swimmer |
2013 | The death of Solomon Lar, Nigerian educator and politician, 4th Governor of Plateau State (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Srihari, Indian actor (b. 1964) |
2013 | The death of Wilfried Martens, Belgian lawyer and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1936) |
2013 | The death of Edmund Niziurski, Polish sociologist, lawyer, and author (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Boris Buzančić, Croatian actor and politician, 47th Mayor of Zagreb (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Jan Hooks, American actress and comedienne (b. 1957) |
2014 | The death of Carolyn Kizer, American poet and academic (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Peter A. Peyser, American soldier and politician (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Rita Shane, American soprano and educator (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Ray Duncan, American businessman (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Richard F. Heck, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Geoffrey Howe, Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Ravindra Jain, Indian composer and director (b. 1944) |
2016 | The death of Andrzej Wajda, Polish film and theatre director (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of Jean Rochefort, French actor (b. 1930) |
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