Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Henry Bell |
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Birthdate | April 07, 1767 |
Birth Place | Scotland |
Age (in 2024) | 257 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Engineer |
Henry Bell is best known as Engineer who has born on April 07, 1767 in Scotland. Currently, Henry Bell is 257 years, 6 months and 25 days old. Henry Bell will celebrate 258th birthday on Monday, 7th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Henry Bell upcoming birthday.
Initially famous for building a triple horsepower-engine steamboat called the Comet, Bell ultimately launched Europe's debut commercial steamboat enterprise. Tragically, the collision of his second steamboat, the Comet II, with a similar vessel resulted in the deaths of some five dozen passengers.
Before devoting his life to building steamships, he studied the stonemasonry, millwrighting, and carpentry trades.
His steamboat business operated from Scotland's River Clyde.
A native of Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland, Bell was the fifth boy born to Patrick and Margaret Bell. Following his marriage, he settled in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
Bell's American counterpart, Robert Fulton, built another early, commercially successful steamboat line.
Henry Bell is 257 years old today.
Henry Bell was born on April 07, 1767 in Scotland.
Henry Bell zodiac sign is Aries.
Henry Bell was best known as Engineer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Henry Bell's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1994 | Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy. |
1995 | First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya. |
2001 | NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter. |
2003 | Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later. |
2009 | Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces. |
2009 | Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent. |
2011 | The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever. |
2017 | A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others. |
2017 | U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack. |
2018 | Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro, from the “Car-Wash Operation”. Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, after being released by the Brazilian Supreme Court. |
2018 | Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War. |
2020 | COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan. |
2020 | COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier. |
2021 | COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States. |
2022 | Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice. |
1989 | The birth of Mitchell Pearce, Australian rugby league player |
1989 | The birth of Teddy Riner, French judoka |
1990 | The birth of Nickel Ashmeade, Jamaican sprinter |
1990 | The birth of Anna Bogomazova, Russian-American kick-boxer, martial artist, and wrestler |
1990 | The birth of Sorana Cîrstea, Romanian tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Trent Cotchin, Australian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Luka Milivojević, Serbian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Anne-Marie, English singer-songwriter |
1992 | The birth of Andreea Acatrinei, Romanian gymnast |
1992 | The birth of Guilherme Negueba, Brazilian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Ichinojō Takashi, Mongolian sumo wrestler |
1994 | The birth of Johanna Allik, Estonian figure skater |
1994 | The birth of Aaron Gray, Australian rugby league player |
1996 | The birth of Emerson Hyndman, American international soccer player |
1997 | The birth of Rafaela Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player |
2014 | The death of Zeituni Onyango, Kenyan-American computer programmer (b. 1952) |
2014 | The death of John Shirley-Quirk, English opera singer (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of George Shuffler, American guitarist (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Josep Maria Subirachs, Spanish sculptor and painter (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Royce Waltman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1942) |
2015 | The death of Tim Babcock, American soldier and politician, 16th Governor of Montana (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of José Capellán, Dominican-American baseball player (b. 1981) |
2015 | The death of Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Richard Henyekane, South African footballer (b. 1983) |
2015 | The death of Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (b. 1935) |
2016 | The death of Blackjack Mulligan, American professional wrestler (b. 1942) |
2019 | The death of Seymour Cassel, American actor (b. 1935) |
2020 | The death of John Prine, American country folk singer-songwriter (b. 1946) |
2020 | The death of Herb Stempel, American television personality (b. 1926) |
2021 | The death of Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1950) |
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