Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Lensey Namioka |
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Birthdate | June 14, 1929 |
Birth Place | China |
Age (in 2024) | 95 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Lensey Namioka is best known as Children's Author who has born on June 14, 1929 in China. Currently, Lensey Namioka is 95 years, 5 months and 29 days old. Lensey Namioka will celebrate 96th birthday on Saturday, 14th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Lensey Namioka upcoming birthday.
Chinese-American children's author best known for such stories and novels as The All American Slurp and Ties that Bind, Ties that Break.
Her early literary works include Who's Hu? and White Serpent Castle.
Her 1989 work, Island of Ogres, won the Washington State Governor's Award for Writers.
To honor her Japanese husband's heritage, she wrote several works of Samurai-themed fiction.
She and fellow Chinese-born author Bette Bao Lord both became known for their works of children's fiction.
Lensey Namioka is 95 years old today.
Lensey Namioka was born on June 14, 1929 in China.
Lensey Namioka zodiac sign is Gemini.
Lensey Namioka was best known as Children's Author.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Lensey Namioka's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1955 | Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
1959 | Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California. |
1959 | Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic to overthrow the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed. |
1962 | The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris - later becoming the European Space Agency. |
1966 | The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557. |
1967 | Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus. |
1972 | Japan Airlines Flight 471 crashes on approach to Palam International Airport (now Indira Gandhi International Airport) in New Delhi, India, killing 82 of the 87 people on board and four more people on the ground. |
1982 | Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces. |
1985 | Five members of the European Economic Community sign the Schengen Agreement establishing a free travel zone with no border controls. |
1986 | The Mindbender derails and kills three riders at the Fantasyland (known today as Galaxyland) indoor amusement park at West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta. |
1994 | The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks to win the Stanley Cup, causing an estimated C$1.1Â million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries. |
2002 | Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000Â km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. |
2014 | A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board. |
2017 | A fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington, London, UK, leaves 72 people dead and another 74 injured. |
2017 | US Republican House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana, and three others, are shot and wounded by a terrorist while practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game. |
1986 | The birth of Matt Read, Canadian ice hockey player |
1987 | The birth of Andrew Cogliano, Canadian ice hockey player |
1987 | The birth of Mohamed Diamé, Senegalese footballer |
1988 | The birth of Adrián Aldrete, Mexican footballer |
1988 | The birth of Kevin McHale, American actor, singer, dancer and radio personality |
1989 | The birth of Lucy Hale, American actress and singer-songwriter |
1989 | The birth of Brad Takairangi, Australian-Cook Islands rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Patrice Cormier, Canadian ice hockey player |
1991 | The birth of Kostas Manolas, Greek footballer |
1991 | The birth of Jesy Nelson, English singer |
1992 | The birth of Devante Smith-Pelly, Canadian ice hockey player |
1993 | The birth of Gunna, American rapper |
1994 | The birth of Moon Taeil, South Korean singer |
1997 | The birth of David Bangala, French football defender |
1999 | The birth of Chou Tzuyu, Taiwanese singer |
2012 | The death of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, German pianist and academic (b. 1930) |
2012 | The death of Carlos Reichenbach, Brazilian director and producer (b. 1945) |
2012 | The death of Gitta Sereny, Austrian-English historian, journalist, and author (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of Elroy Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Alberto Cañas Escalante, Costa Rican journalist and politician (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French actress (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Robert Lebeck, German photographer and journalist (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of James E. Rogers, American lawyer, businessman, and academic (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Richard Cotton, Australian geneticist and academic (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Anne Nicol Gaylor, American activist, co-founded the Freedom From Religion Foundation (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Qiao Shi, Chinese politician (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress and singer (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Gilles Lamontagne, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1919) |
2020 | The death of Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian film actor (b. 1986) |
2022 | The death of A. B. Yehoshua, Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright (b. 1936) |
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