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Full Name | Zeresenay Alemseged |
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Birthdate | June 04, 1969 |
Birth Place | Ethiopia |
Age (in 2024) | 55 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Paleontologist |
Zeresenay Alemseged is best known as Paleontologist who has born on June 04, 1969 in Ethiopia. Currently, Zeresenay Alemseged is 55 years, 6 months and 7 days old. Zeresenay Alemseged will celebrate 56th birthday on Wednesday, 4th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Zeresenay Alemseged upcoming birthday.
Paleoanthropologist and Chair of the Anthropology Department at the California Academy of Sciences who is known for discovering "Lucy's child", which is the almost-complete fossilized remains of a 3.3 million year old child. His discovery was a watershed moment in our understanding of human and pre-human evolution.
He was initially a geologist and worked with the National Museum of Ethiopia’s Paleoanthropology Laboratory after graduating from Ethiopia's Addis Ababa University in 1990.
He founded the Dikika Research Project in 1999, an organization that contributed much to the study of paleoanthropology beyond the discovery of Selam.
His family was residing in Axum, Ethiopia, when he was born; one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites.
His discovery of Selam, the world's oldest child, was seen as more proof in favor of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Zeresenay Alemseged is 55 years old today.
Zeresenay Alemseged was born on June 04, 1969 in Ethiopia.
Zeresenay Alemseged zodiac sign is Gemini.
Zeresenay Alemseged was best known as Paleontologist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Zeresenay Alemseged's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1970 | Tonga gains independence from the British Empire. |
1975 | The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the United States giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights. |
1977 | JVC introduces its VHS videotape at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. It will eventually prevail against Sony's rival Betamax system in a format war to become the predominant home video medium. |
1979 | Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown. |
1983 | Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt. |
1986 | Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel. |
1988 | Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500. |
1989 | In the 1989 Iranian Supreme Leader election, Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran after the death and funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini. |
1989 | The Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate). |
1989 | Solidarity's victory in the 1989 Polish legislative election, the first election since the Communist Polish United Workers Party abandoned its monopoly of power. It sparks off the Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe. |
1989 | Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline. |
1996 | The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission. |
1998 | Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. |
2005 | The Civic Forum of the Romanians of Covasna, Harghita and MureÈ™ is founded. |
2010 | Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40. |
1989 | The birth of Paweł Fajdek, Polish hammer thrower |
1990 | The birth of Evan Spiegel, American Internet entrepreneur |
1991 | The birth of Lorenzo Insigne, Italian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Matt McIlwrick, New Zealand rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Ben Stokes, New Zealand-English cricketer |
1991 | The birth of Rajiv van La Parra, Dutch footballer |
1992 | The birth of Jordan Hugill, English footballer |
1993 | The birth of Jonathan Huberdeau, Canadian ice hockey player |
1993 | The birth of Juan Iturbe, Paraguayan footballer |
1996 | The birth of Oli McBurnie, Scottish footballer |
1999 | The birth of Kim So-hyun, South Korean actress |
1999 | The birth of Drew Pavlou, Australian activist |
2001 | The birth of Takefusa Kubo, Japanese footballer |
2004 | The birth of Mackenzie Ziegler, American child actress, dancer, and recording artist |
2021 | The birth of Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor, British royal |
2013 | The death of Joey Covington, American drummer (b. 1945) |
2013 | The death of Hermann Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer, handball player, and sportscaster (b. 1946) |
2013 | The death of Will Wynn, American football player (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of George Ho, American-Hong Kong businessman (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Nathan Shamuyarira, Zimbabwean journalist and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Sydney Templeman, Baron Templeman, English lawyer and judge (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Don Zimmer, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Marguerite Patten, English economist and author (b. 1915) |
2015 | The death of Leonid Plyushch, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Jabe Thomas, American race car driver (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Anne Warburton, British academic and diplomat, British Ambassador to Denmark (b. 1927) |
2016 | The death of Carmen Pereira, Bissau-Guinean politician (b. 1937) |
2017 | The death of Juan Goytisolo, Spanish essayist, poet and novelist (b. 1931) |
2021 | The death of Clarence Williams III, American actor (b. 1939) |
2022 | The death of George Lamming, Barbadian novelist (b. 1927) |
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