Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Walter Tewksbury |
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Birthdate | March 21, 1876 |
Birth Place | Ashley, PA |
Age (in 2024) | 148 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Runner |
Walter Tewksbury is best known as Runner who has born on March 21, 1876 in Ashley, PA. Currently, Walter Tewksbury is 148 years, 8 months and 21 days old. Walter Tewksbury will celebrate 149th birthday on Friday, 21st of March 2025. Below the countdown to Walter Tewksbury upcoming birthday.
American track athlete who won five medals, including two gold, at the 1900 Olympic games in Paris.
Attending the University of Pennsylvania studying dentistry, he won the sprint events at the IC4A meets in 1898 and 1899.
His hurdling event in 1900 bore little resemblance to modern events: the hurdles were telephone poles laid over the ground, and the final hurdle consisted of a water barrier.
He was born in Ashley, Pennsylvania.
He attended UPenn at the same time and with the same major as fellow Olympian Alvin Kraenzlein .
Walter Tewksbury is 148 years old today.
Walter Tewksbury was born on March 21, 1876 in Ashley, PA.
Walter Tewksbury zodiac sign is Aries.
Walter Tewksbury was best known as Runner.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Walter Tewksbury's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1965 | Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. |
1968 | Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO. |
1970 | The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco. |
1970 | San Diego Comic-Con, the largest pop and culture festival in the world, hosts its inaugural event. |
1980 | Cold War: U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet-Afghan War. |
1983 | The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic. |
1986 | Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships |
1989 | Transbrasil Flight 801 crashes into a slum near São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, killing 25 people. |
1990 | Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule. |
1994 | The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force. |
1999 | Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. |
2000 | Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel. |
2006 | The social media site Twitter is founded. |
2019 | The 2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion occurs, killing at least 47 people and injuring 640 others. |
2022 | China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi, China, killing 132 people. |
1990 | The birth of Mandy Capristo, German singer-songwriter and dancer |
1990 | The birth of Ryann Krais, American runner and heptathlete |
1990 | The birth of Alex Nimo, Liberian-American soccer player |
1991 | The birth of Luke Chapman, English footballer |
1991 | The birth of Antoine Griezmann, French footballer |
1992 | The birth of Lehlogonolo Masalesa, South African footballer |
1992 | The birth of KarolÃna PlÃÅ¡ková, Czech tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Kristýna PlÃÅ¡ková, Czech tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Jake Bidwell, English footballer |
1993 | The birth of Jesse Joronen, Finnish footballer |
1994 | The birth of Margaret Lu, American fencer |
1996 | The birth of Aurora Mikalsen, Norwegian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Martina Stoessel, Argentine actress |
2000 | The birth of Jace Norman, American actor |
2003 | The birth of Natalie Garcia, Canadian rhythmic gymnast |
2014 | The death of James Rebhorn, American actor (b. 1948) |
2014 | The death of Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Iraqi patriarch (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Ishaya Bakut, Nigerian general and politician, Governor of Benue State (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of Chuck Bednarik, American lieutenant and football player (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of James C. Binnicker, American sergeant (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Hans Erni, Swiss painter, sculptor, and illustrator (b. 1909) |
2015 | The death of Jørgen Ingmann, Danish singer and guitarist (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (b. 1955) |
2017 | The death of Chuck Barris, American game show host and producer (b. 1929) |
2017 | The death of Colin Dexter, English author (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Martin McGuinness, Irish republican and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1950) |
2017 | The death of Mike Hall, British cyclist (b. 1981) |
2019 | The death of Victor Hochhauser CBE, British music promoter (b. 1923) |
2019 | The death of Gonzalo Portocarrero, Peruvian sociologist (b. 1949) |
2021 | The death of Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian secularist, feminist (b. 1931) |
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