Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Gwendolyn B. Bennett |
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Birthdate | July 08, 1902 |
Birth Place | Texas |
Age (in 2024) | 122 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Poet |
Gwendolyn B. Bennett is best known as Poet who has born on July 08, 1902 in Texas. Currently, Gwendolyn B. Bennett is 122 years, 3 months and 28 days old. Gwendolyn B. Bennett will celebrate 123rd birthday on Tuesday, 8th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Gwendolyn B. Bennett upcoming birthday.
An African-American author and Harlem Renaissance figure, she published the classic short story, Wedding Day, in 1926. Her poems include Street Lamps in Early Spring and Moon Tonight.
She was born in Texas and lived for a time on the Paiute Reservation in Nevada, where her parents taught on behalf of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
She was an editor and columnist for the New York publication, Opportunity.
She wed Albert Jackson in 1927. After the death of her first husband, she married Richard Crosscup, despite a social climate that looked down upon their interracial union.
She was a Harlem Renaissance peer of Langston Hughes.
Gwendolyn B. Bennett is 122 years old today.
Gwendolyn B. Bennett was born on July 08, 1902 in Texas.
Gwendolyn B. Bennett zodiac sign is Cancer.
Gwendolyn B. Bennett was best known as Poet.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Gwendolyn B. Bennett's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1962 | Ne Win besieges and blows up the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement. |
1966 | King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi. |
1968 | The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan. |
1970 | Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975. |
1972 | Israeli Mossad assassinate Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani. |
1980 | The inaugural 1980 State of Origin game is won by Queensland who defeat New South Wales 20-10 at Lang Park. |
1980 | Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashes near Almaty International Airport in the then Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (present day Kazakhstan) killing all 166 people on board. |
1982 | A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein results in the Dujail Massacre over the next several months. |
1988 | The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more. |
1994 | Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung. |
2003 | Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117 people on board. |
2011 | Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. |
2014 | Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amid rising tensions following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers. |
2021 | President Joe Biden announces that the official conclusion of U.S. involvement in the War in Afghanistan will be on August 31, 2021. |
2022 | Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated while giving a speech in Nara. |
1982 | The birth of Hakim Warrick, American basketball player |
1983 | The birth of John Bowker, American baseball player |
1983 | The birth of Rich Peverley, Canadian ice hockey player |
1986 | The birth of Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (d. 2012) |
1988 | The birth of Jesse Sergent, New Zealand cyclist |
1989 | The birth of Yarden Gerbi, Israeli Judo champion |
1989 | The birth of Tor Marius Gromstad, Norwegian footballer (d. 2012) |
1990 | The birth of Kevin Trapp, German footballer |
1991 | The birth of Virgil van Dijk, Dutch footballer |
1992 | The birth of Ariel Camacho, Mexican singer-songwriter (d. 2015) |
1992 | The birth of Son Heung-min, Korean footballer |
1997 | The birth of Bryce Love, American football player |
1998 | The birth of Jaden Smith, American actor and rapper |
1999 | The birth of İpek Öz, Turkish tennis player |
2014 | The death of PlÃnio de Arruda Sampaio, Brazilian lawyer and politician (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of John V. Evans, American soldier and politician, 27th Governor of Idaho (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Ben Pangelinan, Guamanian businessman and politician (b. 1956) |
2014 | The death of Howard Siler, American bobsledder and coach (b. 1945) |
2014 | The death of Tom Veryzer, American baseball player (b. 1953) |
2015 | The death of Ken Stabler, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1945) |
2015 | The death of James Tate, American poet (b. 1943) |
2016 | The death of Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist (b. 1928) |
2018 | The death of Tab Hunter, American actor, pop singer, film producer and author (b. 1931) |
2020 | The death of Naya Rivera, American actress, model and singer (b. 1987) |
2020 | The death of Alex Pullin, Australian snowboarder (b. 1987) |
2022 | The death of Shinzo Abe, Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2020. (b. 1954) |
2022 | The death of Larry Storch, American actor and comedian (b. 1923) |
2022 | The death of Luis EcheverrÃa, Mexican lawyer and politician (b. 1922) |
2022 | The death of Tony Sirico, American actor (b. 1942) |
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