Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Henry Leland |
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Birthdate | February 16, 1843 |
Birth Place | Vermont |
Age (in 2024) | 181 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Henry Leland is best known as Entrepreneur who has born on February 16, 1843 in Vermont. Currently, Henry Leland is 181 years, 8 months and 17 days old. Henry Leland will celebrate 182nd birthday on Sunday, 16th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Henry Leland upcoming birthday.
During the early 1900s, Leland designed both the Cadillac and the Lincoln automobile models, eventually selling the former to General Motors and the latter to the Ford Motor Company. In addition to automobile models, he invented electric barbershop clippers.
He trained as an engineer at Rhode Island's Brown and Sharpe company and went on to work for the Colt firearms manufacturer and the Leland and Faulconer engine plant.
A political activist as well as an engineer, he joined the Detroit Citizens League and fought to end the proliferation of saloons in the city.
He and his seven older siblings grew up in Vermont as the children of Leander and Zilpha Leland. He later lived in Michigan and Massachusetts with his wife, Ellen Rhoda Hull, and their daughters Martha and Miriam and son Wilfred.
He was involved in an argument with General Motors C.E.O. William Durant over whether GM should manufacture military aircraft parts during the World War I years.
Henry Leland is 181 years old today.
Henry Leland was born on February 16, 1843 in Vermont.
Henry Leland zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Henry Leland was best known as Entrepreneur.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Henry Leland's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1968 | Civil Air Transport Flight 010 crashes near Shongshan Airport in Taiwan, killing 21 of the 63 people on board and one more on the ground. |
1978 | The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago). |
1983 | The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75. |
1985 | Hezbollah is founded. |
1986 | The Soviet liner MSÂ Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. |
1986 | China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near Penghu Airport in Taiwan, killing all 13 aboard. |
1991 | Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. |
1996 | A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people. |
1998 | China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground. |
2000 | Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, killing all three aboard. |
2005 | The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia. |
2005 | The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-05 regular season and playoffs. |
2006 | The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army. |
2013 | A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others. |
2021 | Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the two year anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria. |
1988 | The birth of Kim Soo-hyun, South Korean actor and singer |
1989 | The birth of Elizabeth Olsen, American actress |
1990 | The birth of Dunamis Lui, Australian-Samoan rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer |
1991 | The birth of Sergio Canales, Spanish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Nicolai Boilesen, Danish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Zsófia Susányi, Hungarian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Annika Beck, German tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Ava Max, American singer and songwriter |
1995 | The birth of Katy Dunne, English tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Carina Witthöft, German tennis player |
1999 | The birth of Marie Ulven Ringheim, Norwegian singer, songwriter and music producer |
2000 | The birth of Koffee, Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter and rapper |
2001 | The birth of Yuki Naito, Japanese tennis player |
2012 | The death of John Macionis, American swimmer and lieutenant (b. 1916) |
2012 | The death of Anthony Shadid, American journalist (b. 1968) |
2013 | The death of Colin Edwards, Guyanese footballer (b. 1991) |
2013 | The death of Grigory Pomerants, Russian philosopher and author (b. 1918) |
2013 | The death of Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940) |
2014 | The death of Ken Farragut, American football player (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Kralle Krawinkel, German guitarist (b. 1947) |
2014 | The death of Michael Shea, American author (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of Lasse Braun, Algerian-Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Lesley Gore, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of R. R. Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1957) |
2015 | The death of Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (b. 1971) |
2016 | The death of Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1922) |
2019 | The death of Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (b. 1941) |
2021 | The death of Gustavo Noboa, Ecuadorian politician, 42nd President of Ecuador |
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