Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Lucy Craft Laney |
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Birthdate | April 13, 1854 |
Birth Place | Macon, GA |
Age (in 2024) | 170 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Teacher |
Lucy Craft Laney is best known as Teacher who has born on April 13, 1854 in Macon, GA. Currently, Lucy Craft Laney is 170 years, 7 months and 10 days old. Lucy Craft Laney will celebrate 171st birthday on Sunday, 13th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Lucy Craft Laney upcoming birthday.
Georgia-based teacher who, in 1883, opened the first grade school for African-American children. She later established a nursing school and a kindergarten for African-American students.
She began reading at the age of four, despite a law that prohibited African-Americans from becoming literate. She later attended teacher training courses at Atlanta University.
She was raised in the Presbyterian faith.
She and her nine siblings were born in Macon, Georgia to former slaves David and Louisa Laney.
While holding office as Governor of Georgia, future United States President Jimmy Carter displayed Laney's portrait at the Georgia State Capitol.
Lucy Craft Laney is 170 years old today.
Lucy Craft Laney was born on April 13, 1854 in Macon, GA.
Lucy Craft Laney zodiac sign is Aries.
Lucy Craft Laney was best known as Teacher.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Lucy Craft Laney's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Lucy Craft Laney's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1945 | World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna. |
1948 | In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre. |
1953 | CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra. |
1958 | American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. |
1960 | The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system. |
1964 | At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field. |
1970 | An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed "Odyssey") while en route to the Moon. |
1972 | The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan. |
1972 | Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lá»™c begins. |
1975 | An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War. |
1976 | The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration. |
1976 | Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland. |
1996 | Two women and four children are killed after Israeli helicopter fired rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon. |
1997 | Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament. |
2017 | The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. |
1963 | The birth of Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player and author |
1964 | The birth of Davis Love III, American golfer and sportscaster |
1965 | The birth of Patricio Pouchulu, Argentinian architect and educator |
1967 | The birth of Michael Eisen, American biologist and academic |
1967 | The birth of Olga Tañón, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter |
1971 | The birth of Franck Esposito, French swimmer |
1971 | The birth of Danie Mellor, Australian painter and sculptor |
1972 | The birth of Aaron Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1977 | The birth of Margus Tsahkna, Estonian lawyer and politician |
1978 | The birth of Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer |
1982 | The birth of Nellie McKay, British-American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress |
1987 | The birth of John-Allison Weiss, American singer-songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Allison Williams, American actress and singer |
1989 | The birth of Josh Reynolds, Australian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Darrun Hilliard, American basketball player |
2005 | The death of Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1924) |
2005 | The death of Phillip Pavia, American painter and sculptor (b. 1912) |
2006 | The death of Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1918) |
2008 | The death of John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist and academic (b. 1911) |
2012 | The death of Cecil Chaudhry, Pakistani pilot, academic, and activist (b. 1941) |
2012 | The death of Shūichi Higurashi, Japanese illustrator (b. 1936) |
2013 | The death of Stephen Dodgson, English composer and educator (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian-Spanish philosopher and theorist (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Michael Ruppert, American journalist and author (b. 1951) |
2015 | The death of Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist and author (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, and illustrator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Herb Trimpe, American author and illustrator (b. 1939) |
2017 | The death of Dan Rooney, American football executive and former United States Ambassador to Ireland (b. 1932) |
2022 | The death of Michel Bouquet, French stage and film actor (b. 1925) |
2022 | The death of Gloria Parker, American musician and bandleader (b.1921) |
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