Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Charles W. Chestnutt |
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Birthdate | June 20, 1858 |
Birth Place | Ohio |
Age (in 2024) | 166 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Novelist |
Charles W. Chestnutt is best known as Novelist who has born on June 20, 1858 in Ohio. Currently, Charles W. Chestnutt is 166 years, 5 months and 21 days old. Charles W. Chestnutt will celebrate 167th birthday on Friday, 20th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Charles W. Chestnutt upcoming birthday.
An American author and political activist, he wrote novels dealing with the theme of race. The Marrow of Tradition remains one of his most famous works.
After passing the bar exam, he established a legal stenography business.
He was seven-eighths white, but he identified himself as an African American.
He married Susan Perry in 1878.
He was invited to Mark Twain's 70th birthday party.
Charles W. Chestnutt is 166 years old today.
Charles W. Chestnutt was born on June 20, 1858 in Ohio.
Charles W. Chestnutt zodiac sign is Gemini.
Charles W. Chestnutt was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Charles W. Chestnutt's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1964 | A Curtiss C-46 Commando crashes in the Shengang District of Taiwan, killing 57 people. |
1972 | Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex. |
1973 | Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured. |
1973 | Aeroméxico Flight 229 crashes on approach to Licenciado Gustavo DÃaz Ordaz International Airport, killing all 27 people on board. |
1975 | The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters". |
1979 | ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan National Guard soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle during the Nicaraguan Revolution. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime. |
1982 | The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide opens in Tel Aviv, despite attempts by the Turkish government to cancel it, as it included presentations on the Armenian genocide. |
1982 | The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War. |
1988 | Haitian President Leslie Manigat is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant general Henri Namphy. |
1990 | Asteroid Eureka is discovered. |
1990 | The 7.4 Mw  Manjil-Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000-50,000, and injuring 60,000-105,000. |
1991 | The German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital of Berlin. |
1994 | The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured. |
2003 | The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida. |
2019 | Iran's Air Defense Forces shoot down an American surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid rising tensions between the two countries. |
1987 | The birth of Carsten Ball, Australian tennis player |
1987 | The birth of Asmir Begović, Bosnian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Joseph Ebuya, Kenyan runner |
1989 | The birth of Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor |
1989 | The birth of Javier Pastore, Argentinian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Terrelle Pryor, American football player |
1990 | The birth of DeQuan Jones, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Kalidou Koulibaly, Senegalese footballer |
1991 | The birth of Rick ten Voorde, Dutch footballer |
1994 | The birth of Leonard Williams, American football player |
1995 | The birth of Caroline Weir, Scottish footballer |
1995 | The birth of Carol Zhao, Canadian tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Sam Bennett, Canadian ice hockey player |
1997 | The birth of Bálint Kopasz, Hungarian sprint canoeist |
2003 | The birth of Hans Niemann, American chess player |
2004 | The death of Jim Bacon, Australian politician, 41st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1950) |
2005 | The death of Larry Collins, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1929) |
2005 | The death of Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923) |
2010 | The death of Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (b. 1943) |
2010 | The death of Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic (b. 1916) |
2011 | The death of Ryan Dunn, American television personality (b. 1977) |
2012 | The death of Judy Agnew, Second Lady of the United States. (b. 1921) |
2012 | The death of LeRoy Neiman, American painter (b. 1921) |
2012 | The death of Heinrich IV, Prince Reuss of Köstritz (b. 1919) |
2012 | The death of Andrew Sarris, American critic (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of Ingvar Rydell, Swedish footballer (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Angelo Niculescu, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Miriam Schapiro, Canadian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of Prodigy, American music artist (b. 1974) |
2022 | The death of Caleb Swanigan, American NBA player. (b. 1997) |
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