Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Norman Borlaug |
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Birthdate | March 25, 1914 |
Birth Place | Cresco, IA |
Age (in 2024) | 110 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Biologist |
Norman Borlaug is best known as Biologist who has born on March 25, 1914 in Cresco, IA. Currently, Norman Borlaug is 110 years, 7 months and 10 days old. Norman Borlaug will celebrate 111th birthday on Tuesday, 25th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Norman Borlaug upcoming birthday.
American biologist and humanitarian whose work producing and promoting hardier strains of cereal crops to feed more people won him the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize. His introduction of the Green Revolution also won him the Congressional Gold Medal.
He joined the Rockefeller foundation in 1944 to work on ways to cultivate wheat in Mexico, a problem that occupied him for the next 16 years.
His new strains of crops were introduced to great success in developing countries like Pakistan, India and Mexico, where they saved millions from starvation.
He grew up in a small farming town in Iowa, his family raising both cattle and crops.
Madame Curie, who discovered the radioactivity of polonium and radium, also won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to save countless lives.
Norman Borlaug is 110 years old today.
Norman Borlaug was born on March 25, 1914 in Cresco, IA.
Norman Borlaug zodiac sign is Aries.
Norman Borlaug was best known as Biologist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Norman Borlaug's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1948 | The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. |
1949 | More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia. |
1957 | United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. |
1957 | The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members. |
1959 | Chain Island is sold by the State of California to Russell Gallaway III, a Sacramento businessman who plans to use it as a "hunting and fishing retreat", for $5,258.20 ($48,877 in 2021). |
1965 | Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. |
1971 | The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. |
1975 | Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew. |
1979 | The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch. |
1988 | The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. |
1995 | WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham. |
1996 | The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy). |
2006 | Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. |
2006 | Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged 2006 Belarusian presidential election, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested. |
2018 | Syrian civil war: Following the completion of the Afrin offensive, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) initiate an insurgency against the Turkish occupation of the Afrin District. |
1987 | The birth of Victor Obinna, Nigerian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater |
1988 | The birth of Big Sean, American rapper, singer and songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Ryan Lewis, American music producer |
1988 | The birth of Mitchell Watt, Australian long jumper |
1988 | The birth of Arthur Zeiler, German rugby player |
1989 | The birth of Aly Michalka, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1989 | The birth of Scott Sinclair, English footballer |
1990 | The birth of Mehmet Ekici, Turkish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Alexander Esswein, German footballer |
1991 | The birth of Scott Malone, English footballer |
1992 | The birth of Meg Lanning, Australian cricketer |
1993 | The birth of Jacob Gagan, Australian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Sam Johnstone, English footballer |
1994 | The birth of Justine Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian skier |
2013 | The death of Jean-Marc Roberts, French author and screenwriter (b. 1954) |
2013 | The death of John F. Wiley, American lieutenant, football player, and coach (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Lorna Arnold, English historian and author (b. 1915) |
2014 | The death of Hank Lauricella, American football player and politician (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Jon Lord, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1956) |
2014 | The death of Sonny Ruberto, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1946) |
2014 | The death of Jonathan Schell, American journalist and author (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Ralph Wilson, American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of George Fischbeck, American journalist and educator (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of Shannon Bolin, American actress and singer (b. 1917) |
2017 | The death of Cuthbert Sebastian, St. Kitts and Nevis politician (b. 1921) |
2019 | The death of Barrie Hole, Welsh footballer (b. 1942) |
2020 | The death of Floyd Cardoz, Indian-born American chef (b. 1960) |
2021 | The death of Beverly Cleary, American author (b. 1916) |
2022 | The death of Taylor Hawkins, American drummer and singer (b. 1972) |
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