Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. |
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Birthdate | July 07, 1920 |
Birth Place | Pennsylvania |
Age (in 2024) | 104 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Lawyer |
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. is best known as Lawyer who has born on July 07, 1920 in Pennsylvania. Currently, William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. is 104 years, 4 months and 10 days old. William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. will celebrate 105th birthday on Monday, 7th of July 2025. Below the countdown to William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. upcoming birthday.
Affiliated with the Republican Party, this African American political figure and attorney served from 1975 until 1977 as United States Secretary of Transportation. After ending his career in government, he became a partner with the O'Melveny & Myers law firm.Â
After receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, he earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He went on to secure a legal clerk position with U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Herbert F. Goodrich.
While serving as a law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, Coleman helped write the brief for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.Â
His marriage to Lovida Mae Hardin resulted in three children, including an attorney son named William T. Coleman III.Â
In 1995, then-President Bill Clinton presented Coleman with the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom.
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. is 104 years old today.
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. was born on July 07, 1920 in Pennsylvania.
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. zodiac sign is Cancer.
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. was best known as Lawyer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.'s birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1980 | During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre. |
1981 | US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. |
1983 | Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov. |
1985 | Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17. |
1991 | Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. |
1992 | The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public. |
1997 | The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War. |
2003 | NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover-B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket. |
2005 | A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others. |
2007 | The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world. |
2012 | At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia. |
2013 | A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people. |
2016 | Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb. |
2019 | The United States women's national soccer team defeated the Netherlands 2-0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Final in Lyon, France. |
2022 | Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party following days of pressure from the Members of Parliament (MPs) during the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis. |
1986 | The birth of Sevyn Streeter, American singer-songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Kaci Brown, American singer-songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Lukas Rosenthal, German rugby player |
1989 | The birth of Landon Cassill, American race car driver |
1989 | The birth of Miina Kallas, Estonian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Karl-August Tiirmaa, Estonian skier |
1990 | The birth of Lee Addy, Ghanaian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Pascal Stöger, Austrian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Alesso, Swedish DJ, record producer and musician |
1992 | The birth of Ellina Anissimova, Estonian hammer thrower |
1992 | The birth of Dominik Furman, Polish footballer |
1994 | The birth of Nigina Abduraimova, Uzbekistani tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Timothy Cathcart, Northern Irish race car driver (d. 2014) |
1997 | The birth of Mizuho Habu, Japanese idol |
1999 | The birth of Moussa Diaby, French footballer |
2012 | The death of Doris Neal, American baseball player (b. 1928) |
2012 | The death of Jerry Norman, American sinologist and linguist (b. 1936) |
2012 | The death of Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (b. 1962) |
2013 | The death of Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, theologian, and author (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Donald J. Irwin, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Ben Pucci, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Peter Underwood, Australian lawyer and politician, 27th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Maria Barroso, Portuguese actress and politician (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Bob MacKinnon, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927) |
2021 | The death of Robert Downey Sr., American actor and director. Father of Robert Downey Jr. (b. 1936) |
2021 | The death of Jovenel Moïse, Haitian entrepreneur and politician, President of Haiti (b. 1968) |
2021 | The death of Dilip Kumar, Indian film actor (b. 1922) |
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