Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | George Rickey |
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Birthdate | June 06, 1907 |
Birth Place | Indiana |
Age (in 2024) | 117 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Sculptor |
George Rickey is best known as Sculptor who has born on June 06, 1907 in Indiana. Currently, George Rickey is 117 years, 4 months and 26 days old. George Rickey will celebrate 118th birthday on Friday, 6th of June 2025. Below the countdown to George Rickey upcoming birthday.
American kinetic sculptor whose sculptures move in the wind. He made Two Open Triangles Up Gyratory, located in the Honolulu Museum of Art.
He studied art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts and at the Chicago Institute of Design.
He combined his knowledge of art and engineering in his works.
His parents raised him in South Bend, Indiana.
His work was inspired by Alexander Calder.
George Rickey is 117 years old today.
George Rickey was born on June 06, 1907 in Indiana.
George Rickey zodiac sign is Gemini.
George Rickey was best known as Sculptor.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about George Rickey's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with George Rickey's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1918 | Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I: the U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at ChĂąteau-Thierry (the losses are exceeded at the Battle of Tarawa in November 1943). |
1925 | The original Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Chrysler from the remains of the Maxwell Motor Company. |
1933 | The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey. |
1934 | New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. |
1942 | The United States Navy's victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway is a major turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II. All four Japanese fleet carriers taking partâAkagi, Kaga, SĆryĆ« and HiryĆ«âare sunk, as is the heavy cruiser Mikuma. The American carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann are also sunk. |
1944 | Commencement of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, with the execution of Operation Neptuneâcommonly referred to as D-Dayâthe largest seaborne invasion in history. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel with about 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. By the end of the day, the Allies have landed on five invasion beaches and are pushing inland. |
1971 | Soyuz 11 is launched. The mission ends in disaster when all three cosmonauts, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev are suffocated by uncontrolled decompression of the capsule during re-entry on 29 June. |
1971 | Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collides with a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II of the United States Marine Corps over the San Gabriel Mountains, killing 50. |
1975 | British referendum results in continued membership of the European Economic Community, with 67% of votes in favour. |
1982 | The Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut. |
1985 | The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"; Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979. |
1993 | Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia. |
1994 | China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, killing all 160 people on board. |
2002 | Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb. |
2017 | Syrian civil war: The Battle of Raqqa begins with an offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to capture the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). |
1977 | The birth of David Connolly, Irish footballer |
1979 | The birth of Roberto De Zerbi, Italian football manager |
1983 | The birth of Michael Krohn-Dehli, Danish footballer |
1985 | The birth of Sebastian Larsson, Swedish footballer |
1985 | The birth of Drew McIntyre, Scottish professional wrestler |
1985 | The birth of Becky Sauerbrunn, American footballer; twice a winner of the FIFA Women's World Cup, also an Olympic gold medallist |
1988 | The birth of Anthony Pilkington, Irish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Gavin Hoyte, English born footballer who represented Trinidad and Tobago |
1990 | The birth of Pape Souaré, Senegalese footballer |
1992 | The birth of DeAndre Hopkins, American football player |
1993 | The birth of Vic Mensa, American rapper and singer |
1994 | The birth of Yvon Mvogo, Swiss footballer |
1995 | The birth of Julian Green, American soccer player |
1998 | The birth of Kenny Pickett, American football player |
2001 | The birth of Rayan AĂŻt-Nouri, French-Algerian footballer |
1991 | The death of Stan Getz, American saxophonist and jazz innovator (b. 1927) |
1994 | The death of Mark McManus, Scottish actor (b. 1935) |
1994 | The death of Barry Sullivan, American film actor (b. 1912) |
1996 | The death of George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist; awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 for his studies of histocompatibility (b. 1903) |
2005 | The death of Anne Bancroft, American film actress; winner of the 1963 Academy Award for Best Actress for The Miracle Worker (b. 1931) |
2006 | The death of Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1946) |
2009 | The death of Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of the genetic basis of immunological reaction (b. 1916) |
2012 | The death of Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player; together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, formed the famed KLM Line. (b. 1960) |
2013 | The death of Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (b. 1918) |
2013 | The death of Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Lorna Wing, English psychiatrist and physician; pioneered studies of autism (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and author; prosecuting attorney in the Tate-LaBianca murders case (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of LudvĂk VaculĂk, Czech journalist and author; noted for The Two Thousand Words which inspired the Prague Spring (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess grandmaster; arguably the best player never to become World Chess Champion (b. 1931) |
2016 | The death of Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter; works included Equus and Amadeus (b. 1926) |
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