Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Thomas Henry Huxley |
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Birthdate | May 04, 1825 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 199 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Biologist |
Thomas Henry Huxley is best known as Biologist who has born on May 04, 1825 in England. Currently, Thomas Henry Huxley is 199 years, 6 months and 17 days old. Thomas Henry Huxley will celebrate 200th birthday on Sunday, 4th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Thomas Henry Huxley upcoming birthday.
English biologist who was known as "Darwin's Bulldog" due to his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
He taught himself biology as a teenager and learned about invertebrates and vertebrates and was apprenticed to several practitioners when he was thirteen.
He was voted onto the London School Board in 1870 after being a major influence to British schools.
He married Henrietta Anne Heathorn in 1855 and they had eight children.
He was an important advocate of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Thomas Henry Huxley is 199 years old today.
Thomas Henry Huxley was born on May 04, 1825 in England.
Thomas Henry Huxley zodiac sign is Taurus.
Thomas Henry Huxley was best known as Biologist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Thomas Henry Huxley's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1972 | The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation". |
1973 | The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building. |
1978 | The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people. |
1979 | Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
1982 | Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War. |
1988 | The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire. |
1989 | Iran-Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal. |
1990 | Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union. |
1994 | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. |
1998 | A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty. |
2000 | Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London). |
2002 | One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a plane crash near Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Nigeria. |
2007 | Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale. |
2014 | Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya. |
2019 | The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural season's champion. |
1989 | The birth of Henna Lindholm, Finnish figure skater |
1989 | The birth of Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer |
1989 | The birth of Aris Tatarounis, Greek basketball player |
1989 | The birth of James van Riemsdyk, American ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Irina Falconi, American tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Ryan Morgan, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Duvashen Padayachee, Australian race car driver |
1990 | The birth of Andrea Torres, Filipino actress and model |
1991 | The birth of Brianne Jenner, Canadian women's ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Victor Oladipo, American basketball player |
1993 | The birth of Jānis Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Abi Masatora, Japanese sumo wrestler |
1994 | The birth of Joseph Tapine, New Zealand rugby league player |
1996 | The birth of Pelayo Roza, Spanish sprint canoeist |
1997 | The birth of Max King, Australian rugby league player |
2013 | The death of Morgan Morgan-Giles, English admiral and politician (b. 1914) |
2013 | The death of César Portillo de la Luz, Cuban guitarist and composer (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Dick Ayers, American author and illustrator (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (b. 1983) |
2014 | The death of Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Helga Königsdorf, German physicist and author (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Ross Lonsberry, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1947) |
2014 | The death of Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Central African politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of William Bast, American screenwriter and author (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (b. 1913) |
2015 | The death of Marv Hubbard, American football player (b. 1946) |
2016 | The death of Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, Burundian politician (b. 1946) |
2020 | The death of Don Shula, American football player and coach (b. 1930) |
2020 | The death of Greg Zanis, American carpenter and activist (b. 1950) |
2021 | The death of Nick Kamen, English model, songwriter (b. 1962) |
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