Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | George Pistoney |
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Birthdate | July 01, 1916 |
Birth Place | North Carolina |
Age (in 2024) | 108 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Director |
George Pistoney is best known as Director who has born on July 01, 1916 in North Carolina. Currently, George Pistoney is 108 years, 4 months and 3 days old. George Pistoney will celebrate 109th birthday on Tuesday, 1st of July 2025. Below the countdown to George Pistoney upcoming birthday.
Remembered for his work on such documentary films as The Uprising of '34, How the Myth Was Made, and All My Babies, this acclaimed filmmaker and director taught for many years at New York University's world-famous Tisch School of the Arts.
After studying English and history at both the University of North Carolina and Balliol College, Oxford, he pursued additional coursework in film at the University of London.
He was drafted into the United States military during World War II to serve as a photographic intelligence official. Later, he worked as a director and writer for the Southern Educational Film Service.
Born and raised in Winston Salem, North Carolina, he ultimately settled in New York City, where he died at the age of ninety-six.
As a young man, he worked as a field researcher for a project on suffrage in the American South that was conducted by African American diplomat Ralph Bunche and Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal.
George Pistoney is 108 years old today.
George Pistoney was born on July 01, 1916 in North Carolina.
George Pistoney zodiac sign is Cancer.
George Pistoney was best known as Director.
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Below are historical events that coincided with George Pistoney's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1984 | The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA. |
1987 | The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station. |
1990 | German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany. |
1991 | Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. |
1997 | China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Charles, Prince of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. |
1999 | The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. In Wales, the powers of the Welsh Secretary are transferred to the National Assembly. |
2002 | The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. |
2002 | Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Ãœberlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes. |
2003 | Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong. |
2004 | Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC. |
2006 | The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway is conducted in China. |
2007 | Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. |
2008 | Riots erupt in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections. |
2013 | Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union. |
2020 | The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement replaces NAFTA. |
1988 | The birth of Aleksander Lesun, Russian modern pentathlete |
1989 | The birth of Kent Bazemore, American basketball player |
1989 | The birth of Daniel Ricciardo, Australian race car driver |
1990 | The birth of Ben Coker, English footballer |
1991 | The birth of Michael Wacha, American baseball player |
1992 | The birth of Aaron Sanchez, American baseball player |
1994 | The birth of Chloé Paquet, French tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo, Belgian footballer |
1995 | The birth of Savvy Shields, Miss America 2017 |
1996 | The birth of Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater |
1998 | The birth of Susan Bandecchi, Swiss tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Aleksandra Golovkina, Lithuanian figure skater |
2000 | The birth of Lalu Muhammad Zohri, Indonesian sprinter |
2001 | The birth of Chosen Jacobs, American entertainer |
2003 | The birth of Tate McRae, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer |
2012 | The death of Jack Richardson, American author and playwright (b. 1934) |
2013 | The death of Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Charles Foley, American game designer, co-creator of Twister (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of William H. Gray, American minister and politician (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Jean Garon, Canadian economist, lawyer and politician (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Stephen Gaskin, American activist, co-founder of The Farm (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Bob Jones, English lawyer and politician (b. 1955) |
2014 | The death of Anatoly Kornukov, Ukrainian-Russian general (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Walter Dean Myers, American author and poet (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Val Doonican, Irish singer and television host (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Czesław Olech, Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Nicholas Winton, English lieutenant and humanitarian (b. 1909) |
2016 | The death of Robin Hardy, English author and film director (b. 1929) |
2019 | The death of Bogusław Schaeffer, Polish composer (b. 1929) |
2021 | The death of Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (b. 1939) |
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