Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Elizabeth Martinez |
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Birthdate | December 12, 1925 |
Birth Place | Washington, DC |
Age (in 2024) | 98 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Activist |
Elizabeth Martinez is best known as Activist who has born on December 12, 1925 in Washington, DC. Currently, Elizabeth Martinez is 98 years, 10 months and 21 days old. Elizabeth Martinez will celebrate 99th birthday on Thursday, 12th of December 2024. Below the countdown to Elizabeth Martinez upcoming birthday.
Known best for her 1976 work 500 years of Chicano History in Pictures, this Chicana author and feminist activist also ran an unsuccessful 1982 campaign for Governor of California. In addition, she worked as an editor for both The Nation Magazine and the Simon & Schuster publishing company.
After graduating from Swarthmore College in the mid 1940s, she found employment as a researcher with the United Nations Secretariat.
She co-founded a bilingual news publication titled El Grito del Norte.
A native of Washington, D.C., she later lived in New York and San Francisco. Her daughter, Tessa, founded a California Latina theater company.
She and fellow political activist Cindy Sheehan both ran for office on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket.
Elizabeth Martinez is 98 years old today.
Elizabeth Martinez was born on December 12, 1925 in Washington, DC.
Elizabeth Martinez zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Elizabeth Martinez was best known as Activist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Elizabeth Martinez'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'Ă©tat 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 trainsâone 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 VÄn KháșŁi announces the decision on upgrading the Phong Nha-Káș» BĂ ng 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, KwangmyĆngsĆng-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 PĂ«rparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer |
1986 | The birth of Nina KolariÄ, 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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