Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | John Brashear |
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Birthdate | November 24, 1840 |
Birth Place | Pennsylvania |
Age (in 2024) | 183 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Astronomer |
John Brashear is best known as Astronomer who has born on November 24, 1840 in Pennsylvania. Currently, John Brashear is 183 years, 11 months and 8 days old. John Brashear will celebrate 184th birthday on Sunday, 24th of November 2024. Below the countdown to John Brashear upcoming birthday.
Astronomer who patented instruments for telescopes. He received the Elliott Cresson Medal in 1910 and from 1901 to 1904, he was acting chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania, now known as the University of Pittsburgh.
He grew up star gazing as a teenager and he used to look through telescopes with his grandfather.
There are craters on both the moon and on mars that are named in his honor.
He married Phoebe Stewart, a Sunday school teacher, in 1862.
He was born in the same year as Irish astronomer Robert Stawell Ball.
John Brashear is 183 years old today.
John Brashear was born on November 24, 1840 in Pennsylvania.
John Brashear zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
John Brashear was best known as Astronomer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with John Brashear's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1969 | Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon. |
1971 | During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found. |
1973 | A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months. |
1974 | Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. |
1976 | The Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people. |
1989 | After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the Velvet Revolution, Miloš Jakeš and the entire Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party resign from office. This brings an effective end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. |
1992 | China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board. |
2009 | The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, is founded in Bucharest, Romania. |
2012 | A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people. |
2013 | Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions. |
2015 | A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort. |
2015 | A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others. |
2015 | An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead. |
2016 | The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war. |
2022 | Five days after the general elections which resulted in a hung parliament, opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim is officially named as the 10th prime minister of Malaysia. |
1983 | The birth of José López, Venezuelan baseball player |
1983 | The birth of Karine Vanasse, Canadian actress and producer |
1984 | The birth of Maria Höfl-Riesch, German skier |
1985 | The birth of Julia Alexandratou, Greek model, actress, and singer |
1985 | The birth of Tony Hunt, American football player |
1986 | The birth of Pedro León, Spanish footballer |
1986 | The birth of Mohamed Massaquoi, American football player |
1990 | The birth of Sarah Hyland, American actress |
1990 | The birth of Tom Odell, English singer-songwriter |
1990 | The birth of Michael Oldfield, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Mario Gaspar, Spanish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Sergei Kulbach, Ukrainian figure skater |
1993 | The birth of Ivi Adamou, Cypriot-Greek singer-songwriter |
1993 | The birth of Joe Pigott, English footballer |
1994 | The birth of Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer |
2013 | The death of Matti Ranin, Finnish actor (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Jorge Herrera Delgado, Mexican engineer and politician (b. 1961) |
2014 | The death of Murli Deora, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Corporate Affairs (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Peter Henderson, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Nenad Manojlović, Serbian water polo player and manager (b. 1957) |
2014 | The death of Viktor Tikhonov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Robert Ford, English general (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of John Forrester, English historian and philosopher (b. 1949) |
2015 | The death of Quincy Monk, American football player (b. 1979) |
2015 | The death of Heinz Oberhummer, Austrian physicist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Douglas W. Shorenstein, American businessman (b. 1955) |
2016 | The death of Paul Futcher, English footballer (b. 1956) |
2016 | The death of Florence Henderson, American actress, singer and television personality (b. 1934) |
2019 | The death of Goo Hara, South Korean singer and actress (b. 1991) |
2022 | The death of Börje Salming, Swedish hockey player (b. 1951) |
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