Updated at September 7, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Jack Johnson |
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Birthdate | March 31, 1878 |
Birth Place | Texas |
Age (in 2024) | 146 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Boxer |
Jack Johnson is best known as Boxer who has born on March 31, 1878 in Texas. Currently, Jack Johnson is 146 years, 5 months and 7 days old. Jack Johnson will celebrate 147th birthday on Monday, 31st of March 2025. Below the countdown to Jack Johnson upcoming birthday.
Revered boxer nicknamed "The Galveston Giant" famous for becoming the first African-American World Heavyweight Boxing Champion in history. His 1913 conviction for allegedly violating the "Mann Act" was met with much controversy, making him a lightning rod for racially-charged discourse in America.
He was born in Gavelston, Texas and worked as a janitor and horse exerciser before making his professional boxing debut in November 1898.
In 1910, he defeated the previously undefeated Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries in a fight that has become popularly known as "The Fight of the Century."
His three marriages, each to a white woman, were highly controversial at the time.
A documentary about his life by renowned documentarian Ken Burns, titled "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson," was released in 2004.
Jack Johnson is 146 years old today.
Jack Johnson was born on March 31, 1878 in Texas.
Jack Johnson zodiac sign is Aries.
Jack Johnson was best known as Boxer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Jack Johnson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1968 | American President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation of "Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam" in a television address. At the conclusion of his speech, he announces: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President." |
1970 | Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. |
1980 | The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors. |
1990 | Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax. |
1991 | Georgian independence referendum: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union. |
1991 | The Warsaw Pact formally disbands. |
1992 | The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California. |
1992 | The Treaty of Federation is signed in Moscow. |
1993 | The Macao Basic Law is adopted by the Eighth National People's Congress of China to take effect December 20, 1999. Resumption by China of the Exercise of Sovereignty over Macao |
1995 | Selena is murdered by her fan club president Yolanda Saldívar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas. |
1995 | TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board. |
1998 | Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license. |
2004 | Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed. |
2016 | NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to Earth after a yearlong mission at the International Space Station. |
2018 | Start of the 2018 Armenian revolution. |
1999 | The birth of Adele Tan, Singaporean sports shooter |
1999 | The birth of Nuno Pina, Portuguese football player |
1999 | The birth of Tereza Jančová, former alpine skier from Slovakia |
1999 | The birth of Maren Lutz, German female canoeist |
1999 | The birth of Shehana Vithana, Sri Lankan born Australian professional squash player |
1999 | The birth of Providence Cowdrill, English cricketer |
1999 | The birth of Ricardo Felipe, Brazilian footballer |
1999 | The birth of Dimitris Dalakouras, Greek professional footballer |
2004 _ Samson Baidoo, Austrian professional footballer[69] | The birth of |
2004 | The birth of Gleb Lutfullin, Russian figure skater |
2004 | The birth of Feng He, Chinese snowboarder |
2004 | The birth of Mateo Sanabria, Argentine professional footballer |
2004 | The birth of Alex Luna, Argentine professional footballer |
2005 | The birth of Reed Baker-Whiting, American professional footballer |
2014 | The birth of Eva Diana Kidisyuk,Ukrainian-American YouTuber |
2016 | The death of Ronnie Corbett, Scottish comedian, actor and screenwriter (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician (b. 1927) |
2016 | The death of Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-born English architect and academic, designed the Bridge Pavilion (b. 1950) |
2016 | The death of Imre Kertész, Hungarian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929) |
2016 | The death of Denise Robertson, British writer and television broadcaster (b. 1932) |
2017 | The death of Gilbert Baker, American artist and LGBT rights activist (b. 1951) |
2017 | The death of James Rosenquist, American artist (b. 1933) |
2018 | The death of Nick Newton, inventor of the Newton Starting Blocks (b. 1933) |
2019 | The death of Nipsey Hussle, American rapper (b. 1985) |
2020 | The death of Gita Ramjee, Ugandan-South African scientist and researcher (b. 1956) |
2021 | The death of Ken Reitz, American baseball player (b. 1951) |
2021 | The death of Muhammad Wakkas, Bangladeshi teacher and parliamentarian (b. 1952) |
2022 | The death of Shirley Burkovich, former American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) player (b. 1933) |
2022 | The death of Patrick Demarchelier, French fashion photographer (b. 1943) |
2022 | The death of Moana Jackson, New Zealand lawyer specialising in constitutional law (b. 1945) |
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