Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Grace Abbott |
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Birthdate | November 17, 1878 |
Birth Place | Nebraska |
Age (in 2024) | 146 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Activist |
Grace Abbott is best known as Activist who has born on November 17, 1878 in Nebraska. Currently, Grace Abbott is 146 years, 0 months and 4 days old. Grace Abbott will celebrate 147th birthday on Monday, 17th of November 2025. Below the countdown to Grace Abbott upcoming birthday.
Remembered for her activist work on behalf of immigrants and children, this American social worker and sociologist of the early 20th century served as Director of the U.S. Children's Bureau's Labour Division and, as such, oversaw the implementation of the Keating-Owen Act of 1916.
She graduated from Grand Island College in the late 1890s and worked as a teacher before earning a graduate degree in social work from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After relocating to Illinois, she obtained an advanced degree in political science from the University of Chicago and later became a professor at the same institution.
Her publications include The Child and the State (1938) and The Immigrant and the Community (1917). At the end of her life, she worked for the Social Security Administration, where she helped formulate the Social Security Act.
Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, to Elizabeth Griffin and Nebraska Lieutenant Governor Othman Ali Abbott, she and her sister, Edith Abbott, were both influential social workers.
Upon moving to Chicago in the early 1900s, she lived in Hull House, a residence established by her fellow social worker Jane Addams.
Grace Abbott is 146 years old today.
Grace Abbott was born on November 17, 1878 in Nebraska.
Grace Abbott zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Grace Abbott was best known as Activist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Grace Abbott's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1973 | The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. |
1983 | The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico. |
1986 | The flight crew of Japan Airlines Flight 1628 are involved in a UFO sighting incident while flying over Alaska. |
1989 | Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29). |
1990 | Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts. |
1993 | United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement. |
1993 | In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup. |
1997 | In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre. |
2000 | A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years. |
2000 | Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. |
2003 | Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tenure as the governor of California began. |
2012 | At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt. |
2013 | Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia. |
2013 | A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes. |
2019 | The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. |
1986 | The birth of Greg Rutherford, English long jumper |
1987 | The birth of Craig Noone, English footballer |
1987 | The birth of Gemma Spofforth, English swimmer |
1987 | The birth of Justine Michelle Cain, English actress |
1988 | The birth of Durratun Nashihin Rosli, Malaysian rhythmic gymnast |
1989 | The birth of Ryan Griffin, American football player |
1989 | The birth of Roman Zozulya, Ukrainian football striker |
1992 | The birth of Katarzyna Kawa, Polish tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Danielle Kettlewell, Australian synchronised swimmer |
1992 | The birth of Alex Sheedy, Australian basketball player |
1993 | The birth of Taylor Gold, American snowboarder |
1995 | The birth of Elise Mertens, Belgian tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Panashe Muzambe, Scottish rugby union player |
2000 | The birth of Joanne Züger, Swiss tennis player |
2004 | The birth of Linda Nosková, Czech tennis player |
2012 | The death of Margaret Yorke, English author (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Zeke Bella, American baseball player (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Alfred Blake, English colonel and lawyer (b. 1915) |
2013 | The death of Syd Field, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1935) |
2013 | The death of Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919) |
2013 | The death of Alex Marques, Portuguese footballer (b. 1993) |
2013 | The death of Mary Nesbitt Wisham, American baseball player (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of John T. Downey, American CIA agent and judge (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Bill Frenzel, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Ray Sadecki, American baseball player (b. 1940) |
2014 | The death of Patrick Suppes, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of John Leahy, English lawyer and diplomat, High Commissioner to Australia (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi, Iranian poet and songwriter (b. 1926) |
2019 | The death of Tuka Rocha, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1982) |
2021 | The death of Young Dolph, American rapper (b. 1985) |
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