Updated at December 12, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Mary Ann Shadd |
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Birthdate | October 09, 1823 |
Birth Place | Delaware |
Age (in 2024) | 201 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Journalist |
Mary Ann Shadd is best known as Journalist who has born on October 09, 1823 in Delaware. Currently, Mary Ann Shadd is 201 years, 2 months and 3 days old. Mary Ann Shadd will celebrate 202nd birthday on Thursday, 9th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Mary Ann Shadd upcoming birthday.
Remembered as Canada's first female newspaper publisher and the North American continent's first woman publisher of African descent, she edited an 1850s abolitionist journal called the Provincial Freeman.
In her early adulthood years, she encouraged free African-Americans to immigrate to Canada and, to this end, published an influential 1852 pamphlet.
During the Civil War years, she recruited African-American soldiers to the Union Army. In the post-war era, she studied law at Howard University and, at age sixty, became the second American-born woman of African descent to hold a J.D.
She and her twelve younger siblings were born in Delaware to Harriet Parnell and Abraham Doras Shadd. After settling in Canada, she married Thomas F. Cary and gave birth to children named Sarah and Linton.
She and Susan B. Anthony were both members of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Mary Ann Shadd is 201 years old today.
Mary Ann Shadd was born on October 09, 1823 in Delaware.
Mary Ann Shadd zodiac sign is Libra.
Mary Ann Shadd was best known as Journalist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Mary Ann Shadd's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1970 | The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia. |
1980 | Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City. |
1981 | President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France. |
1983 | South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others. |
1984 | The popular children's television show Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, based on The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, premieres on ITV. |
1986 | The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre. |
1986 | Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the "fourth" US television network. |
1992 | The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pounds (12.6Â kg) meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New York |
1995 | An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona. |
2006 | North Korea conducts its first nuclear test. |
2007 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2007-2008 financial crises. |
2009 | First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program. |
2012 | Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai. |
2016 | The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. |
2019 | Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria. |
1983 | The birth of Andreas Zuber, Austrian race car driver |
1985 | The birth of David Plummer, American swimmer |
1986 | The birth of Derek Holland, American baseball player |
1986 | The birth of Laure Manaudou, French swimmer |
1986 | The birth of Stephane Zubar, French footballer |
1988 | The birth of David Tyrrell, Australian rugby league player |
1989 | The birth of Russell Packer, New Zealand rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Kevin Kampl, German-Slovene footballer |
1992 | The birth of Sam Mewis, American soccer player |
1993 | The birth of Ani Amiraghyan, Armenian tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Lauren Davis, American tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Jayden Hodges, Australian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Wesley So, Filipino-American chess grandmaster |
1996 | The birth of Bella Hadid, American model |
2001 | The birth of Kyla Leibel, Canadian swimmer |
2013 | The death of Solomon Lar, Nigerian educator and politician, 4th Governor of Plateau State (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Srihari, Indian actor (b. 1964) |
2013 | The death of Wilfried Martens, Belgian lawyer and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1936) |
2013 | The death of Edmund Niziurski, Polish sociologist, lawyer, and author (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Boris BuzanÄiÄ, Croatian actor and politician, 47th Mayor of Zagreb (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Jan Hooks, American actress and comedienne (b. 1957) |
2014 | The death of Carolyn Kizer, American poet and academic (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Peter A. Peyser, American soldier and politician (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Rita Shane, American soprano and educator (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Ray Duncan, American businessman (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Richard F. Heck, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Geoffrey Howe, Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Ravindra Jain, Indian composer and director (b. 1944) |
2016 | The death of Andrzej Wajda, Polish film and theatre director (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of Jean Rochefort, French actor (b. 1930) |
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