Updated at November 14, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | William Higinbotham |
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Birthdate | October 25, 1910 |
Birth Place | Connecticut |
Age (in 2024) | 114 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Physicist |
William Higinbotham is best known as Physicist who has born on October 25, 1910 in Connecticut. Currently, William Higinbotham is 114 years, 0 months and 20 days old. William Higinbotham will celebrate 115th birthday on Saturday, 25th of October 2025. Below the countdown to William Higinbotham upcoming birthday.
American physicist who was a member of the team at Los Alamos National Laboratory that developed the first nuclear bomb and who later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement.
He earned his undergraduate degree from Williams College in 1932 before working on the radar system at MIT from 1941 to 1943.
In 1958, he created Tennis for Two, the first interactive analog computer game and one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display.
He had a son named William B. Higinbotham.
Like Albert Einstein, he worked on the first atom bomb at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
William Higinbotham is 114 years old today.
William Higinbotham was born on October 25, 1910 in Connecticut.
William Higinbotham zodiac sign is Scorpio.
William Higinbotham was best known as Physicist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with William Higinbotham's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1945 | Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control. |
1949 | The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins. |
1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. |
1968 | A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people. |
1971 | The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations. |
1973 | Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339. |
1980 | Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude. |
1983 | The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état. |
1995 | A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students. |
1997 | After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo. |
1999 | A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart. |
2001 | Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems. |
2009 | The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721. |
2010 | Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people. |
2010 | A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people. |
1992 | The birth of Davide Formolo, Italian cyclist |
1992 | The birth of Sergey Ridzik, Russian freestyle skier |
1993 | The birth of Isaiah Austin, American basketball player |
1993 | The birth of Iván Garcia, Mexican diver |
1994 | The birth of Richard Jouve, French cross-country skier |
1994 | The birth of Jefferson Lerma, Colombian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Matteo Lodo, Italian rower |
1994 | The birth of Gor Minasyan, Armenian weightlifter |
1994 | The birth of Ray Robson, American chess Grandmaster |
1995 | The birth of Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress |
1995 | The birth of Patrick McCaw, American basketball player |
1997 | The birth of Federico Chiesa, Italian footballer |
1998 | The birth of Juan Soto, Dominican baseball player |
2000 | The birth of Vincent Zhou, American figure skater |
2001 | The birth of Princess Elisabeth, Belgian princess |
2013 | The death of Nicholas Hunt, Welsh-English admiral (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Jack Bruce, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Carlos Morales Troncoso, Dominican lawyer and politician, 34th Vice President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of David Cesarani, English historian and author (b. 1956) |
2015 | The death of Lisa Jardine, English historian, author, and academic (b. 1944) |
2015 | The death of Cecil Lolo, South African footballer (b. 1988) |
2015 | The death of Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (b. 1955) |
2016 | The death of Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian football player and manager (b. 1944) |
2016 | The death of Bob Hoover, USAF, Test, and Airshow pilot (b. 1922) |
2018 | The death of Thomas Keating, an American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (b. 1923) |
2019 | The death of Dilip Parikh, Indian politician (b. 1937) |
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