Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Ed Koch |
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Birthdate | December 12, 1924 |
Birth Place | The Bronx, NY |
Age (in 2024) | 99 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Politician |
Ed Koch is best known as Politician who has born on December 12, 1924 in The Bronx, NY. Currently, Ed Koch is 99 years, 11 months and 9 days old. Ed Koch will celebrate 100th birthday on Thursday, 12th of December 2024. Below the countdown to Ed Koch upcoming birthday.
Politician who served New York as it's Mayor for three terms and served as a judge on The People's Court from 1997 to 1999. He is praised for the economic boom that occurred from 1978 to 1989 but has been criticized for his inaction during the beginning of the AIDs crisis during the early 80's.
He received his law degree from New York University School of Law after he served as an infantryman with the 104th Infantry Division during World War II.
In 1981 he won re-election with 75 percent of the vote, the first New York mayor to win endorsement on both the Democratic and Republican party tickets.
He has two siblings but never married or had children. There was much speculation about his sexuality while he was Mayor.
He appeared in an episode of Sex and the City alongside Sarah Jessica Parker.
Ed Koch is 99 years old today.
Ed Koch was born on December 12, 1924 in The Bronx, NY.
Ed Koch zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Ed Koch was best known as Politician.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Ed Koch's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Ed Koch's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1945 | The People's Republic of Korea is outlawed in the South, by order of the United States Army Military Government in Korea. |
1946 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 13 relating to acceptance of Siam (now Thailand) to the United Nations is adopted. |
1956 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 121 relating to acceptance of Japan to the United Nations is adopted. |
1963 | Kenya declares independence from Great Britain. |
1969 | The Piazza Fontana bombing; a bomb explodes at the headquarters of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (the National Agricultural Bank) in Piazza Fontana in Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and wounding 88. The same afternoon, three more bombs are detonated in Rome and Milan, and another is found unexploded. |
1979 | The 8.2 Mw Tumaco earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 300-600, and generating a large tsunami. |
1979 | Coup d'état of December Twelfth occurs in South Korea. |
1985 | Arrow Air Flight 1285R, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division. |
1988 | The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom. |
1999 | A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits the Philippines's main island of Luzon, killing six people, injuring 40, and causing power outages that affected the capital Manila. |
2000 | The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore. |
2001 | Prime Minister of Vietnam Phan Văn Khải announces the decision on upgrading the Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng nature reserve to a national park, providing information on projects for the conservation and development of the park and revised maps. |
2012 | North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2. |
2015 | The Paris Agreement relating to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted. |
2021 | Dutch Formula One racing driver Max Verstappen wins the controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, beating seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton to become the first Formula One World Champion to come from the Netherlands. |
1982 | The birth of Dmitry Tursunov, Russian tennis player and coach |
1983 | The birth of Roni Porokara, Finnish footballer |
1984 | The birth of Daniel Agger, Danish footballer |
1985 | The birth of Pat Calathes, Greek-American basketball player |
1986 | The birth of Daddy Birori, Rwandan footballer |
1986 | The birth of Përparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer |
1986 | The birth of Nina Kolarič, Slovenian long jumper |
1986 | The birth of T. J. Ward, American football player |
1988 | The birth of Isaac John, New Zealand rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Nixon Chepseba, Kenyan runner |
1990 | The birth of Dawin, American singer-songwriter |
1991 | The birth of Joseph Leilua, Australian-Samoan rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Zeli Ismail, English footballer |
1994 | The birth of Otto Warmbier, American student imprisoned in North Korea (d. 2017) |
1996 | The birth of Lucas Hedges, American actor |
2013 | The death of Tom Laughlin, American actor, director, screenwriter, author, educator, and activist (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Abdul Quader Molla, Bangladeshi journalist and politician (b. 1948) |
2013 | The death of Audrey Totter, American actress (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Norman Bridwell, American author and illustrator, created Clifford the Big Red Dog (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Ivor Grattan-Guinness, English mathematician, historian, and academic (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Herb Plews, American baseball player (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Frans Geurtsen, Dutch footballer (b. 1942) |
2015 | The death of Evelyn S. Lieberman, American politician, White House Deputy Chief of Staff (b. 1944) |
2016 | The death of Shirley Hazzard, Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1931) |
2017 | The death of Ed Lee, American politician and attorney, 43rd Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1952) |
2017 | The death of Pat DiNizio, American singer and songwriter (b. 1955) |
2019 | The death of Danny Aiello, American actor (b. 1933) |
2020 | The death of John le Carré, English author (b. 1931) |
2020 | The death of Ann Reinking, American actress, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1949) |
2021 | The death of Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi, Tongan politician and military officer, Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1955) |
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Website | Ed Koch's Webiste |
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