Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | James Michael Curley |
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Birthdate | November 20, 1874 |
Birth Place | Boston, MA |
Age (in 2024) | 149 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Politician |
James Michael Curley is best known as Politician who has born on November 20, 1874 in Boston, MA. Currently, James Michael Curley is 149 years, 11 months and 14 days old. James Michael Curley will celebrate 150th birthday on Wednesday, 20th of November 2024. Below the countdown to James Michael Curley upcoming birthday.
Boston's Democratic 'boss' who dominated city politics for four terms as the city's mayor and one term as Massachusetts' governor. He was immensely popular amongst the large Irish American community in Boston.
He got his first political post the old-fashioned way - by knocking on doors and listening to the constituents; his friendly manner making him instantly likable.
He doled out with reckless abandon millions of dollars of public works projects, which at one point brought the city to near bankruptcy but his popularity was such that he was on one occasion reelected mayor while serving time in prison for a felony conviction.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, his mother raising him alone after his father's death.
At the same time as he was ruling over Boston, E.H. Crump was the boss of Memphis.
James Michael Curley is 149 years old today.
James Michael Curley was born on November 20, 1874 in Boston, MA.
James Michael Curley zodiac sign is Scorpio.
James Michael Curley was best known as Politician.
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Below are historical events that coincided with James Michael Curley's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1980 | Lake Peigneur in Louisiana drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. |
1985 | Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, is released. |
1989 | Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million. |
1990 | Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings. |
1991 | An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend District of Azerbaijan. |
1992 | In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage. |
1993 | Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating. |
1993 | Macedonia's deadliest aviation disaster occurs when Avioimpex Flight 110, a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashes near Ohrid, killing all 116 people on board. |
1994 | The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.) |
1996 | A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81. |
1998 | A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. |
1998 | The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. |
2003 | After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate. |
2015 | Following a hostage siege, at least 19 people are killed in Bamako, Mali. |
2022 | The 2022 FIFA World Cup begins in Qatar. This is the first time the tournament will be held in the Middle East. |
1993 | The birth of Junior Paulo, New Zealand rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Sanjin Prcić, Bosnian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Anna Prugova, Russian ice hockey player |
1994 | The birth of Timothy Kitum, Kenyan middle-distance runner |
1995 | The birth of Timothy Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete |
1995 | The birth of Iván Garcia, Spanish cyclist |
1995 | The birth of Shaolin Sándor Liu, Hungarian short track speed skater |
1995 | The birth of Kyle Snyder, American wrestler |
1996 | The birth of Jack Harrison, English professional footballer |
1996 | The birth of Blaž Janc, Slovenian handballer |
1996 | The birth of Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer |
1997 | The birth of Levi Garcia, Trinidadian footballer |
2000 | The birth of Connie Talbot, English singer-songwriter |
2001 | The birth of Caty McNally, American tennis player |
2002 | The birth of Madisyn Shipman, American actress |
2013 | The death of Sylvia Browne, American author (b. 1936) |
2013 | The death of Dieter Hildebrandt, Polish-German actor and screenwriter (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Keith Michell, Australian actor (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Jim Perry, American-Canadian singer and game show host (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Yokozuna (b. 1953) |
2016 | The death of Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1984) |
2016 | The death of Gene Guarilia, American basketball player (b. 1937) |
2016 | The death of Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Greek statesman (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1928) |
2017 | The death of Peter Berling, German actor, film producer and writer (b. 1934) |
2018 | The death of James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress (b. 1929) |
2018 | The death of Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926) |
2019 | The death of Wataru Misaka, American basketball player (b. 1923) |
2020 | The death of Jan Morris, Welsh historian, author and travel writer (b. 1926) |
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