Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Thomas Jaggar |
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Birthdate | January 24, 1871 |
Birth Place | Philadelphia, PA |
Age (in 2024) | 153 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Geologist |
Thomas Jaggar is best known as Geologist who has born on January 24, 1871 in Philadelphia, PA. Currently, Thomas Jaggar is 153 years, 10 months and 10 days old. Thomas Jaggar will celebrate 154th birthday on Friday, 24th of January 2025. Below the countdown to Thomas Jaggar upcoming birthday.
Volcanologist and founder of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory who studied volcanic eruption in one of the most geologically active zones. He was a longtime professor at the University of Hawaii and was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Studying for his Ph.D in Geology at Harvard, he visited on a geologic expedition to Martinique, West Indies, just days after a massive eruption killed 28,000 people.
Though he was the head of geology at MIT, the university did not initially support his Hawaii observation efforts, and frequently his research was undertaken at his own expense.
He was married to Isabel Maydwell, his former co-worker.
100 years before before his birth, the British scientist Charles Lyell began laying down the principles of geology, which would later guide him in his work.
Thomas Jaggar is 153 years old today.
Thomas Jaggar was born on January 24, 1871 in Philadelphia, PA.
Thomas Jaggar zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Thomas Jaggar was best known as Geologist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Thomas Jaggar's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1961 | Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost. |
1966 | Air India Flight 101 crashes into Mont Blanc. |
1968 | Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launches Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during wider fighting around Long Bình and Biên Hòa. |
1972 | Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. |
1977 | The Atocha massacre occurs in Madrid during the Spanish transition to democracy. |
1978 | Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered. |
1984 | Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States. |
1986 | The Voyager 2 space probe makes its closest approach to Uranus. |
1987 | About 20,000 protestors march in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States. |
1989 | Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, with over 30 known victims, is executed by the electric chair at the Florida State Prison. |
1990 | Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States. |
2003 | The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation. |
2009 | Cyclone Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France, causing 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies. |
2011 | At least 35 are killed and 180 injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. |
2018 | Former doctor Larry Nassar is sentenced up to 175 years in prison after being found guilty of using his position to sexually abuse female gymnasts. |
1989 | The birth of Whit Merrifield, American baseball player |
1989 | The birth of Ki Sung-yueng, South Korean footballer |
1990 | The birth of Mao Abe, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1991 | The birth of Zhan Beleniuk, Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler |
1991 | The birth of Tatiana Kashirina, Russian weightlifter |
1991 | The birth of Zé LuÃs, Cape Verdean footballer |
1991 | The birth of Li Xuerui, Chinese badminton player |
1992 | The birth of Phiwa Nkambule, South African entrepreneur |
1992 | The birth of Felitciano Zschusschen, Curaçao footballer |
1994 | The birth of Tommie Hoban, English footballer |
1995 | The birth of Dylan Everett, Canadian actor |
1997 | The birth of Nirei Fukuzumi, Japanese racer |
1999 | The birth of Vitalie Damașcan, Moldovan footballer |
2003 | The birth of Johnny Orlando, Canadian singer and songwriter |
2012 | The birth of Princess Athena of Denmark, younger child of Prince Joachim and Princess Marie of Denmark |
2007 | The death of Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1916) |
2007 | The death of İsmail Cem İpekçi, Turkish journalist and politician, 45th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1940) |
2007 | The death of Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian academic and politician (b. 1956) |
2007 | The death of Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican-American soldier (b. 1891) |
2010 | The death of Pernell Roberts, American actor (b. 1928) |
2011 | The death of Bernd Eichinger, German director and producer (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of Shulamit Aloni, Israeli lawyer and politician, 11th Israeli Minister of Education (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Rafael Pineda Ponce, Honduran academic and politician (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Otto Carius, German lieutenant and pharmacist (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of Fredrik Barth, German-Norwegian anthropologist and academic (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1927) |
2016 | The death of Henry Worsley, English colonel and explorer (b. 1960) |
2017 | The death of Butch Trucks, American drummer (b. 1947) |
2018 | The death of Mark E. Smith, British singer-songwriter (b. 1957) |
2019 | The death of Rosemary Bryant Mariner, American United States Naval Aviator (b. 1953) |
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