Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Marie Tharp |
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Birthdate | July 30, 1920 |
Birth Place | Michigan |
Age (in 2024) | 104 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Geologist |
Marie Tharp is best known as Geologist who has born on July 30, 1920 in Michigan. Currently, Marie Tharp is 104 years, 4 months and 4 days old. Marie Tharp will celebrate 105th birthday on Wednesday, 30th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Marie Tharp upcoming birthday.
Known for creating a topographic map of the ocean floor, she contributed greatly to geologists' understanding of the phenomenon of continental drift. She collaborated with fellow geologist Bruce Heezen on the groundbreaking cartography project.
After studying music and English at Ohio University, she earned degrees in mathematics and geology from, respectively, the University of Tulsa and the University of Michigan.
She and Heezen created their underwater map with the help of Austrian artist Heinrich Berann.
She grew up in Michigan as the daughter of a Latin teacher mother and a United States Department of Agriculture employee father.
She used seismographic data to map underwater topography; this exploration would not have been possible without the earlier work of seismograph inventor and fellow geologist, John Milne.
Marie Tharp is 104 years old today.
Marie Tharp was born on July 30, 1920 in Michigan.
Marie Tharp zodiac sign is Leo.
Marie Tharp was best known as Geologist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Marie Tharp's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1971 | An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162. |
1974 | Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States. |
1975 | Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again. |
1978 | The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side. |
1980 | Vanuatu gains independence. |
1980 | Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law. |
1981 | As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland. |
1990 | Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by IRA terrorists in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them. |
2003 | In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line. |
2006 | The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years. |
2011 | Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall. |
2012 | A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India. |
2012 | A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India. |
2014 | Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India. |
2020 | NASA's Mars 2020 mission was launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. |
1986 | The birth of Tiago Alencar, Brazilian footballer |
1986 | The birth of William Zillman, Australian rugby league player |
1987 | The birth of Anton Fink, German footballer |
1987 | The birth of Sam Saunders, American golfer |
1988 | The birth of Wen Chean Lim, Malaysian rhythmic gymnast |
1989 | The birth of Aleix Espargaró, Spanish motorcycle racer |
1989 | The birth of Wayne Parnell, South African cricketer |
1990 | The birth of Chris Maxwell, Welsh footballer |
1991 | The birth of Diana Vickers, English singer-songwriter |
1992 | The birth of Hannah Cockroft, English wheelchair racer |
1993 | The birth of Jacob Faria, American baseball player |
1993 | The birth of André Gomes, Portuguese footballer |
1993 | The birth of Margarida Moura, Portuguese tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Nelydia Senrose, Malaysian actress |
1996 | The birth of Nina Stojanović, Serbian tennis player |
2014 | The death of Peter Hall, English geographer, author, and academic (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Dick Smith, American make-up artist (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Dick Wagner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942) |
2015 | The death of Lynn Anderson, American singer (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of Stuart Baggs, English businessman (b. 1988) |
2015 | The death of Endel Lippmaa, Estonian physicist (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Francis Paul Prucha, American historian and academic (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Alena Vrzáňová, Czech figure skater (b. 1931) |
2016 | The death of Gloria DeHaven, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1925) |
2018 | The death of Michael A. Sheehan, American author, former government official and military officer (b. 1955) |
2020 | The death of Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician, President (1988-2000), Vice President (1984-1988) and mayor of Taipei (1978-1981) (b.1923) |
2020 | The death of Herman Cain, American businessman and political activist (b. 1945) |
2021 | The death of Shona Ferguson, Botswana-born, South African actor and executive producer (b. 1974) |
2022 | The death of Pat Carroll, American actress and comedian (b. 1927) |
2022 | The death of Nichelle Nichols, American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1932) |
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