Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Velma Bronn Johnston |
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Birthdate | March 05, 1912 |
Birth Place | Nevada |
Age (in 2024) | 112 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Activist |
Velma Bronn Johnston is best known as Activist who has born on March 05, 1912 in Nevada. Currently, Velma Bronn Johnston is 112 years, 8 months and 18 days old. Velma Bronn Johnston will celebrate 113th birthday on Wednesday, 5th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Velma Bronn Johnston upcoming birthday.
Better known as "Wild Horse Annie," she is remembered for her animal rights activism on behalf of burros and wild mustangs.
She devoted herself to the cause of wild horse preservation after driving behind a truck carrying horses to slaughter and witnessing the terrible transportation conditions faced by the animals.
She was instrumental in securing the passage of both the Public Law 86-234 (which put an end to the killing and capturing of wild horses on state-owned property) and the more all-encompassing Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, which was signed by President Richard Nixon. She was profiled in a 1959 issue of Time magazine.
The child of Gertrude Clay and Joseph Bronn, she spent her youth on a ranch in Washoe County, Nevada. After their marriage, she and Charles Johnston continued to live and work on her family's ranch.
She appeared alongside Lloyd Bridges in the 1973 Western movie Running Wild.
Velma Bronn Johnston is 112 years old today.
Velma Bronn Johnston was born on March 05, 1912 in Nevada.
Velma Bronn Johnston zodiac sign is Pisces.
Velma Bronn Johnston was best known as Activist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Velma Bronn Johnston's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1965 | March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence. |
1966 | BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board. |
1970 | The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. |
1974 | Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal. |
1978 | The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. |
1979 | Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters. |
1981 | The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.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}1â2 million units around the world. |
1982 | Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus. |
1991 | Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 108 crashes in Venezuela, killing 45. |
1993 | Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 crashes at Skopje International Airport in Petrovec, North Macedonia, killing 83. |
2003 | In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing. |
2012 | Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar. |
2018 | Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pause the Deir ez-Zor campaign due to the Turkish-led invasion of Afrin. |
2021 | Pope Francis begins a historical visit to Iraq amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. |
2021 | Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia. |
1990 | The birth of Alex Smithies, English footballer |
1991 | The birth of Ramiro Funes Mori, Argentinian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Daniil Trifonov, Russian pianist and composer |
1993 | The birth of El Hadji Ba, French footballer |
1993 | The birth of Joshua Coyne, American violinist and composer |
1993 | The birth of Fred, Brazilian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Harry Maguire, English footballer |
1994 | The birth of Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Kyle Schwarber, American baseball player |
1996 | The birth of Taylor Hill, American model |
1996 | The birth of Emmanuel Mudiay, Congolese basketball player |
1997 | The birth of Milena Venega, Cuban rower |
1998 | The birth of Bo Bichette, American baseball player |
1999 | The birth of Kim Ye-rim, South Korean singer and actress |
2007 | The birth of Roman Griffin Davis, British actor |
2012 | The death of Philip Madoc, Welsh-English actor (b. 1934) |
2012 | The death of William O. Wooldridge, American sergeant (b. 1922) |
2013 | The death of Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager (b. 1954) |
2013 | The death of Hugo ChĂĄvez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1954) |
2013 | The death of Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Geoff Edwards, American actor and game show host (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Ailsa McKay, Scottish economist and academic (b. 1963) |
2014 | The death of Leopoldo MarĂa Panero, Spanish poet and translator (b. 1948) |
2014 | The death of Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Vlada Divljan, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958) |
2015 | The death of Edward Egan, American cardinal and former Archbishop of New York (b. 1932) |
2016 | The death of Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese activist and politician (b. 1932) |
2016 | The death of Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer and engineer (b. 1941) |
2016 | The death of Al Wistert, American football player and coach (b. 1920) |
2017 | The death of Kurt Moll, German opera singer (b. 1938) |
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