Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Jim Wright |
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Birthdate | December 22, 1922 |
Birth Place | Texas |
Age (in 2024) | 101 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Politician |
Jim Wright is best known as Politician who has born on December 22, 1922 in Texas. Currently, Jim Wright is 101 years, 10 months and 30 days old. Jim Wright will celebrate 102nd birthday on Sunday, 22nd of December 2024. Below the countdown to Jim Wright upcoming birthday.
Texas Democrat and three-decade member of the United States House of Representatives. During the late 1980s, he served as Speaker of the House; he resigned from this post as a result of a political corruption scandal.
After briefly attending the University of Texas at Austin, he served with the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
During his time in Congress, he introduced the Wright Amendment, a controversial measure that limited flights to and from Dallas's second-largest airport (Love Field).
He grew up in Texas and Oklahoma as the son of a traveling salesman. He later married Mab Wright; the couple raised four children.
He voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957; President Dwight D. Eisenhower ultimately signed the bill into law.
Jim Wright is 101 years old today.
Jim Wright was born on December 22, 1922 in Texas.
Jim Wright zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Jim Wright was best known as Politician.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Jim Wright's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1992 | During approach to Tripoli International Airport, a Boeing 727 operating as Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103 collides in mid-air with a Libyan Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, killing 157 people. |
1996 | Airborne Express Flight 827 crashes near Narrows, Virginia, killing all six people on board. |
1997 | Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces. |
1997 | Somali Civil War: Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991. |
1999 | Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board. |
2001 | Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Islamic State of Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai. |
2001 | Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63. |
2008 | An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 4.2 million m3 (1.1 billion US gal) of coal fly ash slurry. |
2010 | The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama. |
2012 | Bashir Ahmad Bilour of Awami National Party and eight others are killed in a Pakistan Taliban bomber suicide attack in Dhaki Nalbandi area near Qissa Khwani Bazaar. |
2016 | A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70 and 100% effective, thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease. |
2017 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 2397 against North Korea is unanimously approved. |
2017 | President Donald Trump signs the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. |
2018 | A tsunami caused by an eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia kills at least 430 people and injures almost a thousand more. |
2018 | The 2018-2019 United States federal government shutdown, the longest shutdown of the U.S. federal government in history, begins. |
1986 | The birth of Fatih ĂztĂŒrk, Turkish footballer |
1987 | The birth of Ăder, Bissau-Portuguese footballer |
1988 | The birth of Leigh Halfpenny, Welsh rugby player |
1989 | The birth of Jordin Sparks, American singer-songwriter and actress |
1990 | The birth of Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor and singer |
1991 | The birth of DaBaby, American rapper |
1992 | The birth of Michaela HonÄovĂĄ, Slovak tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Moonbyul, Korean rapper, vocalist and songwriter |
1993 | The birth of Meghan Trainor, American singer-songwriter and producer |
1993 | The birth of Raphaël Guerreiro, Portuguese footballer |
1994 | The birth of RĂșben Lameiras, Portuguese footballer |
1998 | The birth of G Hannelius, American actress and singer |
1998 | The birth of Casper Ruud, Norwegian tennis player |
2000 | The birth of Joshua Bassett, American actor and singer |
2001 | The birth of Camila Osorio, Colombian tennis player |
2013 | The death of Diomedes DĂaz, Colombian singer-songwriter (b. 1956) |
2013 | The death of Hans HĂŠkkerup, Danish lawyer and politician (b. 1945) |
2013 | The death of Oscar Peer, Swiss author, playwright, and philologist (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of John Robert Beyster, American physicist and academic (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Christine Cavanaugh, American actress (b. 1963) |
2014 | The death of Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Bernard Stone, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Peter Lundblad, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of Freda Meissner-Blau, Australian activist and politician (b. 1927) |
2016 | The death of Chad Robinson, Australian rugby league player (b. 1980) |
2017 | The death of Gonzalo Morales SĂĄurez, Costa Rican painter (b. 1945) |
2018 | The death of Paddy Ashdown, British politician (b. 1941) |
2018 | The death of Simcha Rotem, last survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (b. 1924) |
2018 | The death of Herman Sikumbang, Indonesian guitarist (b. 1982); casualty during 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami |
2019 | The death of Ram Dass, American spiritual teacher and author (b. 1931) |
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