Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Cyrus West Field |
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Birthdate | November 30, 1819 |
Birth Place | Massachusetts |
Age (in 2024) | 204 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Cyrus West Field is best known as Entrepreneur who has born on November 30, 1819 in Massachusetts. Currently, Cyrus West Field is 204 years, 11 months and 21 days old. Cyrus West Field will celebrate 205th birthday on Saturday, 30th of November 2024. Below the countdown to Cyrus West Field upcoming birthday.
American businessman and entrepreneur who is known for creating the Atlantic Telegraph Company. He is also known for having laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.
Beginning as an assistant to a paper manufacturing company created by his brother, he eventually went on to start a company Cyrus W. Field & Co. with his brother. In January of 1854, he began what was known as the Cable Cabinet of entrepreneurs which formed into the American Telegraph Company.
He earned a gold medal from the U.S. Congress and the grand prize at the International Exposition in Paris for his work on the transatlantic cable.
He was born and raised in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He was he eighth of ten children. He married Mary Bryan Stone in December of 1840 and together they had seven children.
During the Panic of 1857, his neighbor in Gramercy Park Peter Cooper kept him from going under, continuing to support his business endeavors.
Cyrus West Field is 204 years old today.
Cyrus West Field was born on November 30, 1819 in Massachusetts.
Cyrus West Field zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Cyrus West Field was best known as Entrepreneur.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Cyrus West Field's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1971 | Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah. |
1972 | Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000. |
1981 | Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.) |
1995 | Official end of Operation Desert Storm. |
1995 | U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favor of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall; he calls IRA fighters "yesterday's men". |
1999 | Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company. |
1999 | In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies. |
1999 | British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world. |
2000 | NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission. |
2004 | Lion Air Flight 538 overshoots the runway while landing at Adisumarmo International Airport and crashes, killing 25 people. |
2005 | John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York. |
2012 | An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aéro-Service, crashes into houses near Maya-Maya Airport during a thunderstorm, killing at least 32 people. |
2018 | A magnitude 7.1 earthquake with its epicenter only 24 km from Anchorage, Alaska causes significant property damage but no deaths. |
2021 | Barbados becomes a republic. |
2021 | A 15-year-old gunman murders four students and injures seven people, including a teacher, in a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan. |
1985 | The birth of Hikari Mitsushima, Japanese actress and singer |
1985 | The birth of Chrissy Teigen, American model |
1986 | The birth of Jordan Farmar, American basketball player |
1986 | The birth of Evgenia Linetskaya, Israeli tennis player |
1987 | The birth of Vasilisa Bardina, Russian tennis player |
1987 | The birth of Naomi Knight, American wrestler, model, and dancer |
1987 | The birth of Dougie Poynter, English singer-songwriter and bass player |
1988 | The birth of Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (d. 2014) |
1988 | The birth of Vitaliy Polyanskyi, Ukrainian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Tomi Saarelma, Finnish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Vladimír Weiss, Slovak footballer |
1990 | The birth of Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player |
1990 | The birth of Antoine N'Gossan, Ivorian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Agnatius Paasi, Tongan rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Sofia Araújo, Portuguese tennis player |
2015 | The death of Pío Caro Baroja, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Minas Hatzisavvas, Greek actor and screenwriter (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of Marcus Klingberg, Polish-Israeli physician and biologist (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan sociologist and author (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Eldar Ryazanov, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Nigel Buxton, British travel writer and wine critic (b. 1924) |
2017 | The death of Jim Nabors, American actor and comedian (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Surin Pitsuwan, Thai politician and diplomat (b. 1949) |
2017 | The death of Marina Popovich, Soviet pilot, engineer and military officer (b. 1931) |
2017 | The death of Alfie Curtis, British actor (b. 1930) |
2018 | The death of George H. W. Bush, American politician, 41st President of the United States (b. 1924) |
2020 | The death of Irina Antonova, Russian art historian (b. 1922) |
2022 | The death of Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) and President of China (b. 1926) |
2022 | The death of Christine McVie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (b. 1943) |
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