Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Tennessee Ernie Ford |
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Birthdate | February 13, 1919 |
Birth Place | Bristol, TN |
Age (in 2024) | 105 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Country Singer |
Tennessee Ernie Ford is best known as Country Singer who has born on February 13, 1919 in Bristol, TN. Currently, Tennessee Ernie Ford is 105 years, 9 months and 4 days old. Tennessee Ernie Ford will celebrate 106th birthday on Thursday, 13th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Tennessee Ernie Ford upcoming birthday.
Singer in pop, gospel, and Western genres who released the hit single "Sixteen Tons" in 1955. He has three Hollywood Walk of Fame stars because of his contributions to radio, television, and records.
He attended Cincinnati Conservatory of Music for classical singing. He also flew missions over Japan during World War II in a B-29.
His albums Hymns and Star Carols were both Platinum-certified.
He married Betty Heminger on September 18, 1942 and he remarried to Beverly Wood on June 11, 1989. He had two sons named Jeffrey and Brion.
"Sixteen Tons" was a cover of a Merle Travis song, originally recorded in 1946.
Tennessee Ernie Ford is 105 years old today.
Tennessee Ernie Ford was born on February 13, 1919 in Bristol, TN.
Tennessee Ernie Ford zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Tennessee Ernie Ford was best known as Country Singer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Tennessee Ernie Ford's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1983 | A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people. |
1984 | Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
1990 | German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. |
1991 | Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed. |
1996 | The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre). |
2001 | An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944. |
2004 | The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". |
2007 | Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. |
2008 | Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations. |
2010 | A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more. |
2011 | For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855. |
2012 | The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. |
2017 | Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. |
2021 | Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial. |
2021 | A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico. |
1983 | The birth of Mike Nickeas, Canadian baseball player |
1983 | The birth of Anna Watkins, English rower |
1984 | The birth of Hinkelien Schreuder, Dutch swimmer |
1985 | The birth of Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress |
1986 | The birth of Luke Moore, English footballer |
1986 | The birth of Aqib Talib, American football player |
1987 | The birth of Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer |
1988 | The birth of Ryan Goins, American baseball player |
1988 | The birth of Eddy Pettybourne, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player |
1989 | The birth of Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Eliaquim Mangala, French footballer |
1991 | The birth of Junior Roqica, Australian-Fijian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Vianney, French singer |
1994 | The birth of Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer |
2001 | The birth of Kaapo Kakko, Finnish ice hockey player |
2014 | The death of Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Ralph Waite, American actor and activist (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Faith Bandler, Australian activist and author (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Stan Chambers, American journalist and actor (b. 1923) |
2016 | The death of O. N. V. Kurup, Indian poet and academic (b. 1931) |
2016 | The death of Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1936) |
2017 | The death of Ricardo Arias Calderón, Panamanian politician (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Aileen Hernandez, American union organizer and activist (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of Kim Jong-nam, North Korean politician (b. 1971) |
2017 | The death of E-Dubble, American rapper (b. 1982) |
2018 | The death of Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born Danish royal (b. 1934) |
2019 | The death of Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic and politician (b. 1936) |
2021 | The death of Kadir Topbaş, Turkish politician (b. 1945) |
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