Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | William Barksdale |
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Birthdate | August 21, 1821 |
Birth Place | Tennessee |
Age (in 2024) | 203 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Politician |
William Barksdale is best known as Politician who has born on August 21, 1821 in Tennessee. Currently, William Barksdale is 203 years, 3 months and 0 days old. William Barksdale will celebrate 204th birthday on Thursday, 21st of August 2025. Below the countdown to William Barksdale upcoming birthday.
American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for Mississippi from 1853 to 1861. He fought in the Confederate Army during the U.S. Civil War and was killed in the Battle of Gettysburg.
He attended the University of Nashville. He later gave up his law practice in Mississippi to run a pro-slavery publication.
Following the Battle of Malvern Hill (later referred to as "Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade"), he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General.
His younger brother, Ethelbert Barksdale, served in the U.S. Congress and later in the Confederate Congress.
He fought in the Confederate Army alongside General Robert E. Lee.
William Barksdale is 203 years old today.
William Barksdale was born on August 21, 1821 in Tennessee.
William Barksdale zodiac sign is Leo.
William Barksdale was best known as Politician.
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Below are historical events that coincided with William Barksdale's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1968 | Cold War: Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals. |
1968 | James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine. |
1971 | A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured. |
1982 | Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon. |
1983 | Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. is assassinated at Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor). |
1986 | Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range. |
1988 | The 6.9 Mw  Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal-India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709-1,450 people killed and thousands injured. |
1991 | Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940. |
1991 | Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses. |
1993 | NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft. |
1994 | Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 crashes in Douar Izounine, Morocco, killing all 44 people on board. |
1995 | Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, attempts to divert to West Georgia Regional Airport after the left engine fails, but the aircraft crashes in Carroll County near Carrollton, Georgia, killing nine of the 29 people on board. |
2000 | American golfer Tiger Woods wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year. |
2013 | Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria. |
2017 | A solar eclipse traverses the continental United States. |
1985 | The birth of Aleksandra Kiryashova, Russian pole vaulter |
1986 | The birth of Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter |
1986 | The birth of Wout Brama, Dutch footballer |
1986 | The birth of Koki Sakamoto, Japanese gymnast |
1988 | The birth of Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer |
1988 | The birth of Kacey Musgraves, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1989 | The birth of Charlison Benschop, Dutch footballer |
1989 | The birth of James Davey, English rugby league player |
1989 | The birth of Matteo Gentili, Italian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Hayden Panettiere, American actress |
1989 | The birth of Aleix Vidal, Spanish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Bo Burnham, American comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker and poet |
1991 | The birth of Leandro Bacuna, Dutch footballer |
1992 | The birth of Felipe Nasr, Brazilian race car driver |
1996 | The birth of KarolÃna Muchová, Czech tennis player |
2013 | The death of Sid Bernstein, American record producer (b. 1918) |
2013 | The death of C. Gordon Fullerton, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1936) |
2013 | The death of Fred Martin, Scottish footballer (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Enos Nkala, Zimbabwean politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Gerry Anderson, Irish radio and television host (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Helen Bamber, English psychotherapist and academic (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Steven R. Nagel, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1946) |
2014 | The death of Jean Redpath, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Albert Reynolds, Irish businessman and politician, ninth Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Colin Beyer, New Zealand lawyer and businessman (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Wang Dongxing, Chinese commander and politician (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach (b. 1924) |
2017 | The death of Bajram Rexhepi, First Kosovan Prime Ministers of UN mission administration in Kosovo (b. 1954) |
2018 | The death of Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor and singer (b. 1975) |
2019 | The death of Celso Piña, Mexican singer, composer, arranger, and accordionist (b. 1953) |
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