Updated at December 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Isabel González |
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Birthdate | May 02, 1882 |
Birth Place | Puerto Rico |
Age (in 2024) | 142 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Civil Rights Leader |
Isabel González is best known as Civil Rights Leader who has born on May 02, 1882 in Puerto Rico. Currently, Isabel González is 142 years, 7 months and 21 days old. Isabel González will celebrate 143rd birthday on Friday, 2nd of May 2025. Below the countdown to Isabel González upcoming birthday.
Remembered for her involvement in the important 1904 United States Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Williams, Gonzalez played a key role in securing United States citizenship rights for her fellow Puerto Ricans.
She began her series of court battles after arriving pregnant at Ellis Island, New York, in 1902, to join her fiance in the mainland United States.
While seeking American citizenship, she wrote numerous influential letters to the New York Times.
The child of Antonia and Severo Gonzalez, she grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her first marriage, which ended with her husband's death, resulted in one child; her second marriage, to Juan Francisco Torres, lasted five decades and produced four children.
Thirteen years after Gonzalez's case was tried in federal court, the Jones-Shafroth Act, which guaranteed United States citizenship to all Puerto Rican citizens, was passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Woodrow Wilson.
Isabel González is 142 years old today.
Isabel González was born on May 02, 1882 in Puerto Rico.
Isabel González zodiac sign is Taurus.
Isabel González was best known as Civil Rights Leader.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Isabel González's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1972 | In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, Idaho, killing 91 workers. |
1982 | Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. |
1986 | Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster. |
1989 | Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect. |
1995 | During the Croatian War of Independence, the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians. |
1998 | The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy. |
1999 | Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama. |
2000 | President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military. |
2004 | The Yelwa massacre concludes. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims killed 78 Christians at Yelwa. In response, about 630 Muslims were killed by Christians on May 2nd. |
2008 | Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless. |
2008 | Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people. |
2011 | Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. |
2011 | An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others are taken ill. |
2012 | A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction. |
2014 | Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing. |
1988 | The birth of Neftalí Feliz, Dominican baseball player |
1988 | The birth of Stephen Henderson, Irish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Jeanette Pohlen, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Kay Panabaker, American actress |
1990 | The birth of Paul George, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Jeong Jinwoon, South Korean actor and singer |
1992 | The birth of Sunmi, South Korean singer |
1992 | The birth of María Teresa Torró Flor, Spanish tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Owain Doull, Welsh track cyclist |
1993 | The birth of Isyana Sarasvati, Indonesian singer |
1993 | The birth of Huang Zitao, Chinese singer and rapper |
1996 | The birth of Cherprang Areekul, Thai singer |
1996 | The birth of Julian Brandt, German footballer |
1996 | The birth of Schuyler Bailar, American swimmer |
2015 | The birth of Princess Charlotte of Wales, British royal, and third in line to the British throne |
2013 | The death of Joseph P. McFadden, American bishop (b. 1947) |
2013 | The death of Dvora Omer, Israeli author and educator (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (b. 1980) |
2013 | The death of Charles Banks Wilson, American painter and illustrator (b. 1918) |
2014 | The death of Tomás Balduino, Brazilian bishop (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Žarko Petan, Slovenian director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Stuart Archer, English colonel and architect (b. 1915) |
2015 | The death of Michael Blake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1945) |
2015 | The death of Guy Carawan, American singer and musicologist (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina, choreographer, actress, and director (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Ruth Rendell, English author (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Afeni Shakur, American music businesswoman, activist, and Black Panther (b. 1947) |
2020 | The death of Arif Wazir, Pakistani politician, leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (b. 1982) |
2021 | The death of Marcel Stellman, Belgian record producer and lyricist (b. 1925) |
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