Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Edwin Drake |
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Birthdate | March 29, 1819 |
Birth Place | New York |
Age (in 2024) | 205 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Edwin Drake is best known as Entrepreneur who has born on March 29, 1819 in New York. Currently, Edwin Drake is 205 years, 8 months and 5 days old. Edwin Drake will celebrate 206th birthday on Saturday, 29th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Edwin Drake upcoming birthday.
The first person to drill for oil in the United States. He also founded an oil refinery in Pittsburgh.
He grew up on farms in New York state and Vermont and began working for a Connecticut railway in his late teens.
He was hired by Seneca Oil to look into the possibility of finding oil deposits in Pennsylvania. During the course of this assignment, he not only found oil, but also developed a revolutionary way of drilling for it.
He was married twice: to Philena Adams, who died during childbirth in 1854, and to Laura Dowd.
He and Armand Hammer were both famously involved in the petroleum business.
Edwin Drake is 205 years old today.
Edwin Drake was born on March 29, 1819 in New York.
Edwin Drake zodiac sign is Aries.
Edwin Drake was best known as Entrepreneur.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Edwin Drake's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Edwin Drake's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1974 | Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China. |
1982 | The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982. |
1984 | The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to Indianapolis. |
1990 | The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War. |
1993 | Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province. |
1999 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble. |
1999 | A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103. |
2002 | In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War. |
2004 | Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members. |
2010 | Two suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40. |
2013 | At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. |
2014 | The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed. |
2015 | Air Canada Flight 624 skids off the runway at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, after arriving from Toronto shortly past midnight. All 133 passengers and five crews on board survive, with 23 treated for minor injuries. |
2016 | A United States Air Force F-16 crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. The pilot ejected safely and was recovered by coalition forces, according to a U.S. military statement. |
2017 | Prime Minister Theresa May invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union. |
1987 | The birth of Dimitri Payet, French footballer |
1987 | The birth of Romain Hamouma, French footballer |
1988 | The birth of Esther Cremer, German runner |
1988 | The birth of Jesús Molina, Mexican footballer |
1988 | The birth of Jürgen Zopp, Estonian tennis player |
1989 | The birth of James Tomkins, English footballer |
1990 | The birth of Carlos Peña, Mexican footballer |
1990 | The birth of Teemu Pukki, Finnish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Lyle Taylor, English footballer |
1991 | The birth of Irene, South Korean idol, actress and television host |
1991 | The birth of Fabio Borini, Italian footballer |
1991 | The birth of N'Golo Kanté, French footballer |
1993 | The birth of Thorgan Hazard, Belgian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Jung Jae-won, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, and actor |
1996 | The birth of Wade Baldwin IV, American basketball player |
2012 | The death of Bill Jenkins, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Reginald Gray, Irish-French painter (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Brian Huggins, English-Canadian journalist and actor (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Liu Kang, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1961) |
2013 | The death of Ralph Klein, Canadian journalist and politician, 12th Premier of Alberta (b. 1942) |
2013 | The death of Art Phillips, Canadian businessman and politician, 32nd Mayor of Vancouver (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Marc Platt, American actor and dancer (b. 1913) |
2014 | The death of Ruth A. M. Schmidt, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of William Delafield Cook, Australian-English painter (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of Patty Duke, American actress (b. 1946) |
2017 | The death of Alexei Abrikosov, Russian physicist, 2003 Nobel laureate in Physics (b. 1928) |
2019 | The death of Agnès Varda, French film director (b. 1928) |
2020 | The death of Joe Diffie, American country music singer (b. 1958) |
2020 | The death of Alan Merrill, American musician (b. 1951) |
2020 | The death of Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1933) |
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Youtube | Edwin Drake on Youtube |
Tiktok | Edwin Drake on Tiktok |
Wikipedia | Edwin Drake on Wikipedia |
Website | Edwin Drake's Webiste |
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