Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Harold Urey |
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Birthdate | April 29, 1893 |
Birth Place | United States |
Age (in 2024) | 131 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Chemist |
Harold Urey is best known as Chemist who has born on April 29, 1893 in United States. Currently, Harold Urey is 131 years, 7 months and 4 days old. Harold Urey will celebrate 132nd birthday on Tuesday, 29th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Harold Urey upcoming birthday.
An American physical chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for discovering the isotope deuterium. He also did important work in uranium enrichment and isotope separation through gaseous diffusion.
He went to an Amish grade school in Indiana as a boy.
He was awarded the Medal of Merit for working on the Manhattan project.
He had four children with his wife Frieda Daum who he married in 1926.
Like Albert Einstein, he was a Nobel laureate who worked on the Manhattan Project.
Harold Urey is 131 years old today.
Harold Urey was born on April 29, 1893 in United States.
Harold Urey zodiac sign is Taurus.
Harold Urey was best known as Chemist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Harold Urey's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1974 | Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal. |
1975 | Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end. |
1975 | Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands. |
1986 | A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items. |
1986 | The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea. |
1986 | Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant. |
1991 | A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless. |
1991 | The 7.0 Mw Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people. |
1992 | Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed. |
1997 | The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories. |
2004 | The final Oldsmobile is built in Lansing, Michigan, ending 107 years of vehicle production. |
2011 | The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London. |
2013 | A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people. |
2013 | National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing seven people. |
2015 | A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests. |
1989 | The birth of Candace Owens, American conservative influencer, political commentator, and activist. |
1990 | The birth of James Faulkner, Australian cricketer |
1990 | The birth of Chris Johnson, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Adam Smith, English footballer |
1991 | The birth of Jung Hye-sung, South Korean actress |
1991 | The birth of Misaki Doi, Japanese tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Emilio Orozco, American soccer player |
1992 | The birth of Alina Rosenberg, German Paralympic equestrian |
1994 | The birth of Christina Shakovets, German tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Victoria Sinitsina, Russian ice dancer |
1996 | The birth of Katherine Langford, Australian actress |
1998 | The birth of Kimberly Birrell, Australian tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Mallory Pugh, American soccer player |
2002 | The birth of Sinja Kraus, Austrian tennis player |
2007 | The birth of Infanta Sofía of Spain, Spanish princess |
2013 | The death of John La Montaine, American pianist and composer (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Ernest Michael, American mathematician and scholar (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Kevin Moore, English footballer (b. 1958) |
2013 | The death of Marianna Zachariadi, Greek pole vaulter (b. 1990) |
2014 | The death of Iveta Bartošová, Czech singer and actress (b. 1966) |
2014 | The death of Al Feldstein, American author and illustrator (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Bob Hoskins, English actor (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Michael Kadosh, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of François Michelin, French businessman (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman, co-founded Weight Watchers (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Calvin Peete, American golfer (b. 1943) |
2015 | The death of Dan Walker, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (b. 1948) |
2019 | The death of Josef Šural, Czech footballer (b. 1990) |
2021 | The death of Cate Haste, English author (b. 1945) |
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