Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Townsend Hoopes |
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Birthdate | April 28, 1922 |
Birth Place | Duluth, MN |
Age (in 2024) | 102 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Historian |
Townsend Hoopes is best known as Historian who has born on April 28, 1922 in Duluth, MN. Currently, Townsend Hoopes is 102 years, 6 months and 19 days old. Townsend Hoopes will celebrate 103rd birthday on Monday, 28th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Townsend Hoopes upcoming birthday.
An influential twentieth-century historian, he wrote the first detailed account of President Lyndon B. Johnson's decision to de-escalate the Vietnam War. During the late 1960s, he served as Under Secretary of the Air Force.
He attended Yale University, where he was the captain of the football team. He went on to serve in the Marine Corps during World War II.
He is best known for his Bancroft Prize-winning historical book, The Devil and John Foster Dulles (1973).
He was born in Duluth, Minnesota, where his father worked as a Great Lakes steamship executive. His second marriage, to Ann Merrifield, lasted four decades and produced a daughter. Previously, he had been married to Marion Schmidt, with whom he had two sons.
A common topic of Hoopes' writing was the foreign policy of President Dwight Eisenhower.
Townsend Hoopes is 102 years old today.
Townsend Hoopes was born on April 28, 1922 in Duluth, MN.
Townsend Hoopes zodiac sign is Taurus.
Townsend Hoopes was best known as Historian.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Townsend Hoopes's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1952 | The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War. |
1965 | United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops. |
1967 | Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license. |
1969 | Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France. |
1970 | Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign. |
1973 | The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run. |
1975 | General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closes in on victory. |
1977 | The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder. |
1978 | The President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels. |
1986 | High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident. |
1988 | Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight. |
1994 | Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia. |
1996 | Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1⁄2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense. |
1996 | Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others. |
2004 | CBS News released evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees. |
1987 | The birth of Bradley Johnson, English footballer |
1987 | The birth of Zoran Tošić, Serbian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Jonathan Biabiany, French footballer |
1988 | The birth of Juan Manuel Mata, Spanish footballer |
1988 | The birth of Katariina Tuohimaa, Finnish tennis player |
1989 | The birth of Emil Salomonsson, Swedish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Kim Sung-kyu, South Korean singer |
1990 | The birth of Niels-Peter Mørck, Danish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Blake Bortles, American football player |
1992 | The birth of DeMarcus Lawrence, American football player |
1993 | The birth of Craig Garvey, Australian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Eva Samková, Czech snowboarder |
1995 | The birth of Jonathan Benteke, Belgian footballer |
1995 | The birth of Melanie Martinez, American singer |
1998 | The birth of Song Yu-bin, South Korean singer and actor |
2014 | The death of Edgar Laprade, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Jack Ramsay, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Idris Sardi, Indonesian violinist and composer (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Frederic Schwartz, American architect, co-designed Empty Sky (b. 1951) |
2014 | The death of Ryan Tandy, Australian rugby player (b. 1981) |
2015 | The death of Antônio Abujamra, Brazilian actor and director (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Michael J. Ingelido, American general (b. 1916) |
2016 | The death of Jenny Diski, English author and screenwriter (b. 1947) |
2017 | The death of Mariano Gagnon, American Catholic priest and author (b. 1929) |
2018 | The death of James Hylton, American race car driver (b. 1934) |
2019 | The death of Richard Lugar, American politician (b.1932) |
2019 | The death of John Singleton, American film director (b. 1968) |
2021 | The death of Michael Collins, American astronaut (b. 1930) |
2021 | The death of El Risitas, Spanish comedian (b. 1956) |
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