Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Edward Bok |
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Birthdate | October 09, 1863 |
Birth Place | Netherlands |
Age (in 2024) | 161 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Journalist |
Edward Bok is best known as Journalist who has born on October 09, 1863 in Netherlands. Currently, Edward Bok is 161 years, 1 months and 14 days old. Edward Bok will celebrate 162nd birthday on Thursday, 9th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Edward Bok upcoming birthday.
A longtime editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, he helped to shape American tastes at the turn of the 20th century.
He worked as an office boy for Western Union while putting himself through school, and eventually established a syndicated news page written for women.
At the helm of the Ladies' Home Journal he tackled weighty social issues like women's suffrage, and taboo subjects like venereal diseases.
He was born in Den Helder, Holland (later to become Netherlands,) and grew up in Brooklyn, NY.
Long after he left, the magazine continued to break new ground, for example featuring the African-American Naomi Watts on the cover.
Edward Bok is 161 years old today.
Edward Bok was born on October 09, 1863 in Netherlands.
Edward Bok zodiac sign is Libra.
Edward Bok was best known as Journalist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Edward Bok'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 (12.6Â 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 BuzanÄiÄ, 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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Wikipedia | Edward Bok on Wikipedia |
Website | Edward Bok's Webiste |
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