Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Charles Freer Andrews |
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Birthdate | February 12, 1871 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 153 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Religious Leader |
Charles Freer Andrews is best known as Religious Leader who has born on February 12, 1871 in England. Currently, Charles Freer Andrews is 153 years, 9 months and 9 days old. Charles Freer Andrews will celebrate 154th birthday on Wednesday, 12th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Charles Freer Andrews upcoming birthday.
Famous for his close friendship and activist collaboration with Indian Independence movement leader Mahatma Gandhi Andrews returned to his native England in his later years and became a leader in the Christian radicalism movement. He penned several books, including What I Owe to Christ and Christ and Labour.
After studying Classics at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he became a deacon in the Church of England and subsequently joined the Cambridge Mission to Delhi. While in India, he became involved in the Indian National Congress.
As a play on Andrews' initials, C.F.A., Gandhi nicknamed his closest friend "Christ's Faithful Apostle."
He grew up in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Birmingham, England, as the son of a Catholic Apostolic Church minister.
During the 1920s and '30s, he was a close associate of the acclaimed Indian author Rabindranath Tagore.
Charles Freer Andrews is 153 years old today.
Charles Freer Andrews was born on February 12, 1871 in England.
Charles Freer Andrews zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Charles Freer Andrews was best known as Religious Leader.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Charles Freer Andrews's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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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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