Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | William Shirley |
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Birthdate | December 02, 1694 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 329 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Politician |
William Shirley is best known as Politician who has born on December 02, 1694 in England. Currently, William Shirley is 329 years, 11 months and 15 days old. William Shirley will celebrate 330th birthday on Monday, 2nd of December 2024. Below the countdown to William Shirley upcoming birthday.
During the 1740s and '50s, this colonial governor presided over the Massachusetts Bay Province and played a key role in planning the Siege of Louisbourg during the third French and Indian War (also known as King George's War). Later in his political career, he served as Governor of the Bahamas.
After graduating from Pembroke College, Cambridge, he trained as a barrister at London's Inner Temple Inn of Court.
He served only briefly as North American military Commander-in-Chief; his difficulty in coordinating war efforts led to his being ousted in the late 1750s.
Born in East Sussex, England, to Elizabeth and William Shirley, he later settled in the Massachusetts colony. His marriage to Frances Barker resulted in several children, including a daughter named Anne and sons named William, Jr. and Thomas.
He and Thomas Hutchinson were both colonial governors of Massachusetts in the period preceding the Revolutionary War.
William Shirley is 329 years old today.
William Shirley was born on December 02, 1694 in England.
William Shirley zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
William Shirley was best known as Politician.
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Below are historical events that coincided with William Shirley's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1971 | Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm al-Quwain form the United Arab Emirates. |
1975 | Laotian Civil War: The Pathet Lao seizes the Laotian capital of Vientiane, forces the abdication of King Sisavang Vatthana, and proclaims the Lao People's Democratic Republic. |
1976 | Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado. |
1980 | Salvadoran Civil War: Four American missionaries are raped and murdered by a death squad. |
1982 | At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. |
1988 | Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state. |
1989 | The Peace Agreement of Hat Yai is signed and ratified by the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) and the governments of Malaysia and Thailand, ending the over two-decade-long communist insurgency in Malaysia. |
1991 | Canada and Poland become the first nations to recognize the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union. |
1993 | Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín. |
1993 | Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. |
1999 | The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement. |
2001 | Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. |
2015 | San Bernardino attack: Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik kill 14 people and wound 22 at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California. |
2016 | Thirty-six people die in a fire at a converted Oakland, California, warehouse serving as an artist collective. |
2020 | Cannabis is removed from the list of most dangerous drugs of the international drug control treaty by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs. |
1989 | The birth of Etta Bond, English singer-songwriter |
1989 | The birth of Matteo Darmian, Italian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Cassie Steele, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress |
1990 | The birth of Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu, Ghanaian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Gastón Ramírez, Uruguayan footballer |
1991 | The birth of Chloé Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian skier |
1991 | The birth of Charlie Puth, American singer-songwriter and pianist |
1993 | The birth of Haruka Ishida, Japanese singer and actress |
1993 | The birth of Kostas Stafylidis, Greek footballer |
1994 | The birth of Fumika Shimizu, Japanese actress and model |
1994 | The birth of Tomokaze Yūta, Japanese sumo wrestler |
1995 | The birth of Uladzislau Hancharou, Belarusian trampolinist |
1995 | The birth of Inori Minase, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer |
1998 | The birth of Juice WRLD, American rapper, singer and songwriter (d. 2019) |
1998 | The birth of Anna Kalinskaya, Russian tennis player |
2012 | The death of Tom Hendry, Canadian playwright, co-founded the Manitoba Theatre Centre (b. 1929) |
2012 | The death of Ehsan Naraghi, Iranian sociologist and author (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of William Allain, American soldier and politician, 58th Governor of Mississippi (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of Jean-Claude Beton, Algerian-French engineer and businessman, founded Orangina (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Marcelo Déda, Brazilian lawyer and politician (b. 1960) |
2013 | The death of Junior Murvin, Jamaican singer-songwriter (b. 1946) |
2014 | The death of A. R. Antulay, Indian lawyer and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Jean Béliveau, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Josie Cichockyj, English basketball player and coach (b. 1964) |
2014 | The death of Bobby Keys, American saxophonist (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Don Laws, American figure skater and coach (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Sandy Berger, American lawyer and politician, 19th United States National Security Advisor (b. 1945) |
2015 | The death of Will McMillan, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1944) |
2015 | The death of George T. Sakato, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1921) |
2020 | The death of Pat Patterson, American wrestler (b. 1941) |
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