Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | William Lyon Mackenzie King |
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Birthdate | December 17, 1874 |
Birth Place | Canada |
Age (in 2024) | 149 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | World Leader |
William Lyon Mackenzie King is best known as World Leader who has born on December 17, 1874 in Canada. Currently, William Lyon Mackenzie King is 149 years, 11 months and 0 days old. William Lyon Mackenzie King will celebrate 150th birthday on Tuesday, 17th of December 2024. Below the countdown to William Lyon Mackenzie King upcoming birthday.
Canadian politician who served as the nation's tenth Prime Minister, holding the office for a record-breaking 22 years.
He received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Toronto and went on to earn his law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School. Later, he studied at both the University of Chicago and at Harvard University, where he received both a master's degree and a Ph.D.
His biographers note his atypical profile as a politician: he was neither charismatic nor a skilled orator, and he was largely socially unskilled (he neither married nor kept close friends). His political strength, however, lay in his intelligence, his deep understanding of Canadian public, economic, and social policy, and in his consistent ability to, as a Liberal politician, address the needs of people on all sides of the political spectrum.
He was born William Lyon Mackenzie King to John King and Isabella Grace Mackenzie. His grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie, had served as the first mayor of the city of Toronto.
He was ranked by Maclean's magazine in 1997 as the top Canadian Prime Minister in history, ahead of even respected Prime Minister John MacDonald.
William Lyon Mackenzie King is 149 years old today.
William Lyon Mackenzie King was born on December 17, 1874 in Canada.
William Lyon Mackenzie King zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
William Lyon Mackenzie King was best known as World Leader.
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Below are historical events that coincided with William Lyon Mackenzie King's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1981 | American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy. |
1983 | Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed. |
1989 | Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire. |
1989 | Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years. |
1989 | The Simpsons premieres on television with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". |
1997 | Aerosvit Flight 241: A Yakovlev Yak-42 crashes into the Pierian Mountains near Thessaloniki Airport in Thessaloniki, Greece, killing all 70 people on board. |
2002 | Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years. |
2003 | The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend, Maxine Carr, is found guilty of perverting the course of justice. |
2003 | SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight. |
2003 | Sex work rights activists establish December 17 (or "D17") as International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers to memorialize victims of a serial killer who targeted prostitutes, and highlight State violence against sex workers by police and others. |
2005 | Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. |
2005 | Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan. |
2009 | MVÂ Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals. |
2010 | Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring. |
2014 | The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them in 1961. |
1988 | The birth of Craig Sutherland, Scottish footballer |
1991 | The birth of James Hurst, American football player |
1991 | The birth of Jordan Rankin, Australian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Atsedu Tsegay, Ethiopian runner |
1992 | The birth of Quinton de Kock, South African cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Joshua Ingram, Canadian drummer and percussionist |
1993 | The birth of Patricia Kú Flores, Peruvian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Lloyd Perrett, New Zealand rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Nat Wolff, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player and actor |
1996 | The birth of Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russian figure skater |
1997 | The birth of Naiktha Bains, British-Australian tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Shoma Uno, Japanese figure skater |
1998 | The birth of Jasmine Armfield, English actress |
1998 | The birth of Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer |
1999 | The birth of Mirei Sasaki, Japanese idol |
2013 | The death of Janet Rowley, American geneticist and biologist (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Conny van Rietschoten, Dutch sailor (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (b. 1913) |
2014 | The death of Richard C. Hottelet, American journalist (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Oleh Lysheha, Ukrainian poet and playwright (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of Lowell Steward, American captain (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Ivan Vekić, Croatian colonel, lawyer, and politician, Croatian Minister of the Interior (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Hal Brown, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Osamu Hayaishi, American-Japanese biochemist and academic (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Michael Wyschogrod, German-American philosopher and theologian (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Benjamin A. Gilman, American soldier and politician (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of Henry Heimlich, American doctor (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Gordon Hunt, American voice director (b. 1929) |
2020 | The death of Jeremy Bullock, English actor (b. 1945) |
2020 | The death of Allen Dines, American politician (b. 1921) |
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