Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Margaret Murie |
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Birthdate | August 18, 1902 |
Birth Place | Seattle, WA |
Age (in 2024) | 122 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Memoirist |
Margaret Murie is best known as Memoirist who has born on August 18, 1902 in Seattle, WA. Currently, Margaret Murie is 122 years, 3 months and 24 days old. Margaret Murie will celebrate 123rd birthday on Monday, 18th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Margaret Murie upcoming birthday.
Known as the Grandmother of the Conservation Movement, she helped pass the Wilderness Act and create the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She published a 1962 memoir, Two in the Far North, and was the subject of a documentary film called Arctic Dance.
She started campaigning to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 1956, recruiting a supreme court justice to persuade President Eisenhower to close the land off to development.
She received both the Audubon Medal and the John Muir Award.
She was born in Seattle, Washington and moved with her family to Alaska at the age of five. she married Olaus Murie, a fellow naturalist and conservationist.
She spent her honeymoon studying caribou with her husband on the Koyukuk River in Alaska. This same river inspired John Denver's ballad, A Song for All Over.
Margaret Murie is 122 years old today.
Margaret Murie was born on August 18, 1902 in Seattle, WA.
Margaret Murie zodiac sign is Leo.
Margaret Murie was best known as Memoirist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Margaret Murie's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Margaret Murie's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1965 | Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war. |
1966 | Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phước Tuy Province. |
1971 | Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam. |
1976 | The Korean axe murder incident in Panmunjom results in the deaths of two US Army officers. |
1976 | The Soviet Union’s robotic probe Luna 24 successfully lands on the Moon. |
1977 | Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He later dies from injuries sustained during this arrest, bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies. |
1983 | Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 21 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars). |
1989 | Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia. |
1993 | American International Airways Flight 808 crashes at Leeward Point Field at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, injuring the three crew members. |
2003 | One-year-old Zachary Turner is murdered in Newfoundland by his mother, who was awarded custody despite facing trial for the murder of Zachary's father. The case was documented in the film Dear Zachary and led to reform of Canada's bail laws. |
2005 | A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java; affecting almost 100 million people, it is one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history. |
2008 | The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharra, resigns under threat of impeachment. |
2008 | War of Afghanistan: The Uzbin Valley ambush occurs. |
2017 | The first terrorist attack ever sentenced as a crime in Finland kills two and injures eight. |
2019 | One hundred activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for Okjökull glacier, which has completely melted after having once covered six square miles (15.5 km2). |
1988 | The birth of Jack Hobbs, English footballer |
1988 | The birth of Eggert Jónsson, Icelandic footballer |
1988 | The birth of G-Dragon, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer |
1989 | The birth of Yu Mengyu, Singaporean table tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Elizabeth Beisel, American swimmer |
1992 | The birth of Bogdan Bogdanović, Serbian basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Frances Bean Cobain, American visual artist and model |
1993 | The birth of Jung Eun-ji, South Korean singer-songwriter |
1993 | The birth of Maia Mitchell, Australian actress and singer |
1994 | The birth of Madelaine Petsch, American actress and YouTuber |
1994 | The birth of Morgan Sanson, French footballer |
1995 | The birth of Alīna Fjodorova, Latvian figure skater |
1997 | The birth of Renato Sanches, Portuguese footballer |
1998 | The birth of Brian To'o, Australian-Samoan rugby league player |
1999 | The birth of Cassius Stanley, American basketball player |
2014 | The death of Gordon Faber, American soldier and politician, 39th Mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Jim Jeffords, American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of Levente Lengyel, Hungarian chess player (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Khaled al-Asaad, Syrian archaeologist and author (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Roger Smalley, English-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1943) |
2015 | The death of Suvra Mukherjee, Wife of former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Louis Stokes, American lawyer and politician (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Bud Yorkin, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of Ernst Nolte, German historian (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of Bruce Forsyth, English television presenter and entertainer (b. 1928) |
2017 | The death of Zoe Laskari, Greek actress and beauty pageant winner (b. 1944) |
2018 | The death of Denis Edozie, Nigerian Supreme Court judge (b. 1935) |
2018 | The death of Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat and seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1938) |
2020 | The death of Ben Cross, English stage and film actor (b. 1947) |
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