Updated at November 24, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Juanita Brooks |
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Birthdate | January 15, 1898 |
Birth Place | Bunkerville, NV |
Age (in 2024) | 126 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Novelist |
Juanita Brooks is best known as Novelist who has born on January 15, 1898 in Bunkerville, NV. Currently, Juanita Brooks is 126 years, 10 months and 9 days old. Juanita Brooks will celebrate 127th birthday on Wednesday, 15th of January 2025. Below the countdown to Juanita Brooks upcoming birthday.
The daughter of Mormon pioneers, she bravely researched a dark chapter of her people's history in preparation for the publication of her 1950 work, The Mountain Meadows Massacre. Her other published works include On the ragged edge: The Life and Times of Dudley Leavitt (1973) and On the Mormon Frontier: The Diary of Hosea Stout (1964).
She attended both Brigham Young University and Columbia University. After ending her teaching career to start a family, she devoted herself to the research of Mormon pioneer life.
She blamed the famous Mountain Meadows Massacre, for which John D. Lee was executed, on Mormon leader Brigham Young.
She married Will Brooks, a widower and father of four, in 1933. Together, they had one more daughter and three more sons.
The Mormon Church discouraged her investigation into Brigham Young's involvement in the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Juanita Brooks is 126 years old today.
Juanita Brooks was born on January 15, 1898 in Bunkerville, NV.
Juanita Brooks zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Juanita Brooks was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Juanita Brooks's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1991 | The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm. |
1991 | Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own Victoria Cross in its honours system. |
2001 | Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, goes online. |
2005 | ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon. |
2009 | US Airways Flight 1549 ditches safely in the Hudson River after the plane collides with birds less than two minutes after take-off. This becomes known as "The Miracle on the Hudson" as all 155 people on board were rescued. |
2013 | A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others. |
2015 | The Swiss National Bank abandons the cap on the Swiss franc's value relative to the euro, causing turmoil in international financial markets. |
2016 | The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle. |
2018 | British multinational construction and facilities management services company Carillion went into liquidation – officially, "the largest ever trading liquidation in the UK" |
2019 | Somali militants attack the DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi, Kenya killing at least 21 people and injuring 19. |
2019 | Theresa May's UK government suffers the biggest government defeat in modern times, when 432 MPs voting against the proposed European Union withdrawal agreement, giving her opponents a majority of 230. |
2020 | The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare confirms the first case of COVID-19 in Japan. |
2021 | A 6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia's Sulawesi island killing at least 105 and injuring 3,369 people. |
2022 | The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano erupts, cutting off communications with Tonga and causing a tsunami across the Pacific. |
2023 | Yeti Airlines Flight 691 crashes near Pokhara International Airport, of the 72 persons on board, no one is believed to have survived. |
1988 | The birth of Daniel Caligiuri, German footballer |
1988 | The birth of Skrillex, American DJ and producer |
1989 | The birth of Alexei Cherepanov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2008) |
1989 | The birth of Nicole Ross, American Olympic foil fencer |
1990 | The birth of Robert Trznadel, Polish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Marc Bartra, Spanish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Nicolai Jørgensen, Danish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Darya Klishina, Russian long jumper |
1991 | The birth of James Mitchell, Australian basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Joël Veltman, Dutch footballer |
1993 | The birth of Kadeem Allen, American basketball player |
1996 | The birth of Dove Cameron, American actress and singer |
1996 | The birth of Deebo Samuel, American football player |
1998 | The birth of Alexandra Eade, Australian artistic gymnast |
2004 | The birth of Grace VanderWaal, American singer-songwriter |
2014 | The death of John Dobson, Chinese-American astronomer and author (b. 1915) |
2014 | The death of Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (b. 1944) |
2015 | The death of Ervin Drake, American songwriter and composer (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of Kim Fowley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and manager (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Ray Nagel, American football player and coach (b. 1927) |
2016 | The death of Francisco X. Alarcón, American poet and educator (b. 1954) |
2016 | The death of Ken Judge, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1958) |
2016 | The death of Manuel Velázquez, Spanish footballer (b. 1943) |
2017 | The death of Jimmy Snuka, Fijian professional wrestler (b. 1943) |
2018 | The death of Dolores O'Riordan, Irish pop singer (b. 1971) |
2019 | The death of Carol Channing, American actress (b. 1921) |
2019 | The death of Ida Kleijnen, Dutch chef (b. 1936) |
2020 | The death of Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1944) |
2020 | The death of Lloyd Cowan, British athlete and coach (b. 1962) |
2022 | The death of Alexa McDonough, first female politician to lead a major provincial political party in Canada, former leader of the federal New Democratic Party. (b. 1944) |
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