Updated at November 14, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Glenn T. Seaborg |
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Birthdate | April 19, 1912 |
Birth Place | Ishpeming, MI |
Age (in 2024) | 112 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Chemist |
Glenn T. Seaborg is best known as Chemist who has born on April 19, 1912 in Ishpeming, MI. Currently, Glenn T. Seaborg is 112 years, 6 months and 25 days old. Glenn T. Seaborg will celebrate 113th birthday on Saturday, 19th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Glenn T. Seaborg upcoming birthday.
Winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of plutonium and transuranium, which is heavier than uranium. He was also the Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971.
During WW II he was in charge of scaling up plutonium production and after the war chaired the Atomic Energy Commission.
He helped develop the atom bomb, but co-signed a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt urging him to demonstrate the weapon to the Japanese rather than using it on them; and spent his whole career campaigning for peaceful uses of atomic energy.
He was born in Ishpeming, Michigan, the son of a Swedish immigrant mother, who he later saved with one of his discoveries.
He was an advisor to a succession of U.S. presidents, starting from FDR and ending with President George Bush in the 1980s.
Glenn T. Seaborg is 112 years old today.
Glenn T. Seaborg was born on April 19, 1912 in Ishpeming, MI.
Glenn T. Seaborg zodiac sign is Aries.
Glenn T. Seaborg was best known as Chemist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Glenn T. Seaborg's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1975 | India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia. |
1975 | South Vietnamese forces withdrew from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War. |
1984 | Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. |
1985 | Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later. |
1987 | The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night". |
1989 | A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors. |
1993 | The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire. |
1995 | Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six. |
1999 | The German Bundestag returns to Berlin. |
2000 | Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board. |
2005 | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI. |
2011 | Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961. |
2013 | Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown. |
2020 | A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history. |
2021 | The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet. |
1957 | The birth of Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman, chairman of Reliance Industries |
1960 | The birth of Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian pianist, composer, and producer |
1960 | The birth of Frank Viola, American baseball player and coach |
1964 | The birth of Kim Weaver, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic |
1966 | The birth of Véronique Gens, French soprano and actress |
1968 | The birth of Mswati III, king (Ngwenyama) of Eswatini (Swaziland) |
1970 | The birth of Kelly Holmes, English athlete and double Olympic champion |
1972 | The birth of Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira, a Brazilian footballer |
1978 | The birth of James Franco, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter |
1978 | The birth of Amanda Sage, American-Austrian painter and educator |
1981 | The birth of Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor |
1982 | The birth of Samuel C. Morrison, Jr., Liberian-American journalist, producer, and screenwriter |
1987 | The birth of Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Kim Chiu, Filipino actress, singer, and dancer |
2002 | The birth of Loren Gray, American singer and internet personality |
2004 | The death of John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (b. 1920) |
2004 | The death of Jenny Pike, Canadian WWII servicewoman and photographer (b. 1922) |
2006 | The death of Albert Scott Crossfield, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1921) |
2007 | The death of Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932) |
2009 | The death of J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1930) |
2011 | The death of Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (b. 1946) |
2012 | The death of Levon Helm, American musician and actor (b. 1940) |
2013 | The death of François Jacob, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Raymond Carr, English historian and academic (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician (b. 1918) |
2021 | The death of Walter Mondale, American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1928) |
2021 | The death of Jim Steinman, American composer, lyricist (b. 1947) |
2022 | The death of Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1903) |
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