Updated at December 14, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Emily Murphy |
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Birthdate | March 14, 1868 |
Birth Place | Innisfil, Canada |
Age (in 2024) | 156 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Civil Rights Leader |
Emily Murphy is best known as Civil Rights Leader who has born on March 14, 1868 in Innisfil, Canada. Currently, Emily Murphy is 156 years, 9 months and 0 days old. Emily Murphy will celebrate 157th birthday on Friday, 14th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Emily Murphy upcoming birthday.
Notable for her membership in a Canadian women's activist group known as "The Famous Five," Murphy played a key role in convincing the government to consider women "qualified persons" who could serve in the Canadian Senate. Her landmark case was won following an appeal to the British Privy Council's Judicial Committee.
In 1916, she established herself as a political activist after successfully lobbying the Alberta legislature to pass a measure that gave women the right to ownership of a third of their husbands' property.
Apart from her suffragist work, she fought for tighter drug laws in Canada, as well as for the highly controversial eugenics cause of forced sterilization.
She and her brothers Gowan and Thomas were the children of Emily and Isaac Ferguson. Her marriage to Arthur Murphy resulted in daughters named Kathleen, Doris, Madeleine, and Evelyn.
She and fellow Canadian women's rights activist Nellie McClung were both involved in the famous Persons Case.
Emily Murphy is 156 years old today.
Emily Murphy was born on March 14, 1868 in Innisfil, Canada.
Emily Murphy zodiac sign is Pisces.
Emily Murphy was best known as Civil Rights Leader.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Emily Murphy's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1961 | A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons. |
1964 | Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy. |
1967 | The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. |
1972 | Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab Emirates while on approach to Dubai International Airport, killing 112 people. |
1978 | The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon. |
1979 | Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people. |
1980 | LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team. |
1982 | The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London. |
1988 | In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands. |
1995 | Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle. |
2006 | The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure. |
2007 | The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in the deaths of at least 14 people. |
2008 | A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet. |
2017 | A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance. |
2019 | Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths. |
1988 | The birth of Rico Freimuth, German decathlete |
1989 | The birth of Kevin Lacroix, Canadian race car driver |
1990 | The birth of Joe Allen, Welsh footballer |
1990 | The birth of Tamás Kádár, Hungarian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Haru Kuroki, Japanese actress |
1990 | The birth of Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Icelandic footballer |
1991 | The birth of Emir Bekrić, Serbian hurdler |
1991 | The birth of László Szűcs, Hungarian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Steven Zellner, German footballer |
1993 | The birth of Philipp Ziereis, German footballer |
1994 | The birth of Ansel Elgort, American actor and DJ |
1996 | The birth of Batuhan Altıntaş, Turkish footballer |
1997 | The birth of Simone Biles, American gymnast |
2000 | The birth of Paige Rini, Canadian water skier |
2008 | The birth of Abby Ryder Fortson, American actress |
2013 | The death of Aramais Sahakyan, Armenian poet and author (b. 1936) |
2013 | The death of Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician, Cambodian Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Tony Benn, English politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Meir Har-Zion, Israeli commander (b. 1934) |
2016 | The death of John W. Cahn, German-American metallurgist and academic (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (b. 1934) |
2016 | The death of Suranimala Rajapaksha, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1949) |
2018 | The death of Jim Bowen, English stand-up comedian and TV personality (b. 1937) |
2018 | The death of Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician and human rights activist (b. 1979) |
2018 | The death of Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (b. 1942) |
2018 | The death of Liam O'Flynn, Irish uileann piper (b. 1945) |
2019 | The death of Jake Phelps, American skateboarder and Thrasher editor-in-chief (b. 1962) |
2019 | The death of Charlie Whiting, British motorsport director (b. 1952) |
2019 | The death of Haig Young, Canadian politician (b. 1928) |
2022 | The death of Scott Hall, Professional wrestler (b. 1958) |
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