Engineer Christopher Columbus Kraft

Christopher Columbus Kraft

Living place: Virginia

Birthday: 28-2-1924 (100 years old)

Population of US 1924: 114,109,000

Global rank: #69471

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Who is Engineer Christopher Columbus Kraft?
NASA engineer and flight director who was integral in organizing many Mission Control activities.
He appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1965, and became known throughout the United States as a leader of NASA's space program.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He graduated from Virginia Tech in 1944 with a degree in aeronautical engineering.

Family life info

He married Betty Anne Turnbull in 1950, and the couple had a daughter and a son.

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US President Dwight Eisenhower signed an act in 1958 that created NASA and space vehicles such as: the Langley Research Center, Virginia, where Kraft worked.

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When was Engineer Christopher Columbus Kraft born?
Christopher Columbus Kraft birthday 28-2-1924 (at the age of 100).
Where is Engineer Christopher Columbus Kraft's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Christopher Columbus Kraft was born in Virginia, . is a Engineer, whose Zodiac is Pisces, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Christopher Columbus Kraft's global rank is 69471 and whose rank is 31 in list of famous Engineer. Population of US in 1924 is about 114,109,000 persons.
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Events in 1924 and 28-2

Events in US in the birth year of Christopher Columbus Kraft

  • New York's Computer Tabulating Recording Company is re-organized and will now be known as International Business Machines Corp. (IBM).
  • Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall and oilmen Harry Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny are charged with conspiracy and bribery in the Teapot Dome scandal, involving fraudulent leases of naval oil reserves. In 1931, Fall is sentenced to year in prison; Doheny and Sinclair acquitted of bribery.
  • Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb confess to murdering 14-year-old cousin "in the interest of science." Clarence Darrow is defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of death sentence.

Birthday Christopher Columbus Kraft (28-2) in history

  • Day 28-2 year 1784: Pastor John Wesley issues the "Declaration of Declaration," officially establishing the Methodist Church.
  • Day 28-2 year 1849: The steamship California landed in San Francisco, bringing the first East Coasters to the Gold Rush.
  • Day 28-2 year 1916: Henry James, American novelist and critic, died.
  • Day 28-2 year 1948: The last British troops left India.
  • Day 28-2 year 1953: James Watson and Francis Crick described their theory that two DNA strands were coiled in a double helix.
  • Day 28-2 year 1983: The final episode of M*A*S*H aired. It was the most watched television program in history.
  • Day 28-2 year 1986: Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot to death in central Stockholm.
  • Day 28-2 year 1993: Four federal agents were killed in Waco, Texas, after they tried to serve an arrest warrant for weapons charges on Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh, starting a 51-day standoff.
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