Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Lester Maddox |
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Birthdate | September 30, 1915 |
Birth Place | Atlanta, GA |
Age (in 2024) | 109 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Politician |
Lester Maddox is best known as Politician who has born on September 30, 1915 in Atlanta, GA. Currently, Lester Maddox is 109 years, 1 months and 21 days old. Lester Maddox will celebrate 110th birthday on Tuesday, 30th of September 2025. Below the countdown to Lester Maddox upcoming birthday.
Populist Governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971 who was stridently opposed to the civil rights movement and led the state's segregation efforts. He also served as Lieutenant Governor under Jimmy Carter.
After he once refused service to two black students in his Atlanta restaurant, his supporters adopted the restaurant's souvenir pick handles as symbols of segregation.
In office, he promoted segregation as an issue of state's rights, and promoted temperance, short haircuts for men, and modest attire for women.
He had two daughters with his wife of 61 years, Virginia Cox, and 10 grandchildren.
Horace Bond, a Georgia politician who came to office a little later, promoted integration of the races rather than segregation.
Lester Maddox is 109 years old today.
Lester Maddox was born on September 30, 1915 in Atlanta, GA.
Lester Maddox zodiac sign is Libra.
Lester Maddox was best known as Politician.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Lester Maddox's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1954 | The U.S. Navy submarine USSÂ Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel. |
1965 | Six Indonesian Army generals were assassinated by the September 30 Movement. The PKI was blamed for the latter, resulting in mass killings of suspected leftists. |
1966 | Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. |
1968 | The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time. |
1970 | Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings. |
1975 | Malév Flight 240 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while on approach to Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 60. |
1978 | Finnair Flight 405 is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland. |
1980 | Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation. |
1993 | The 6.2 Mw  Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000. |
1999 | The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident. |
2000 | Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada. |
2005 | Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper. |
2009 | The 7.6 Mw  Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead. |
2016 | Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007. |
2016 | Two paintings with a combined value of $100Â million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002. |
1986 | The birth of Cristián Zapata, Colombian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Aida Garifullina, Russian operatic soprano |
1988 | The birth of Eglė Staišiūnaitė, Lithuanian hurdler |
1989 | The birth of André Weis, German footballer |
1991 | The birth of Thomas Röhler, German javelin thrower |
1992 | The birth of Ezra Miller, American actor and singer |
1994 | The birth of Aliya Mustafina, Russian gymnast |
1996 | The birth of Jacob Host, Australian rugby league player |
1997 | The birth of Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian gymnast |
1997 | The birth of Max Verstappen, Dutch Formula One driver |
1998 | The birth of Yui Imaizumi, Japanese tarento |
1998 | The birth of Trevi Moran, American youtuber and singer |
2002 | The birth of Levi Miller, Australian actor and model |
2002 | The birth of Tara Würth, Crotian tennis player |
2002 | The birth of Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress |
2012 | The death of Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian-American figure skater (b. 1928) |
2012 | The death of Boris Å prem, Croatian lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (b. 1956) |
2013 | The death of Janet Powell, Australian educator and politician (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Indian cleric and politician (b. 1940) |
2014 | The death of Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Guido Altarelli, Italian-Swiss physicist and academic (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Claude Dauphin, French businessman (b. 1951) |
2015 | The death of Göran Hägg, Swedish author and critic (b. 1947) |
2017 | The death of Monty Hall, American game show host (b. 1921) |
2017 | The death of Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1966) |
2018 | The death of Kim Larsen, Danish rock musician (b. 1945) |
2018 | The death of Geoffrey Hayes, British television presenter and actor (b. 1942) |
2018 | The death of Sonia Orbuch, Polish resistance fighter during the Second World War and Holocaust educator. (b. 1925) |
2019 | The death of Victoria Braithwaite, British research scientist who proved fish feel pain (b. 1967) |
2021 | The death of Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer and orchestrator (b. 1931) |
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